Apple said it began selling Walt Disney Company movies at its iTunes online store.

"Today we are making more than 75 films available online and we will be adding more every month,"

Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs said during a press event in a San Francisco theater.


The offerings include recent releases including "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Cars," Jobs said.


The films were from Disney, Pixar, Touchstone and Miramax film studios, Jobs said.



New films would be available online for $12.99 dollars the same day of their release in DVD format, Jobs said. The price would rise to $14.99 dollars after the first week.


Library films would sell for $9.99 dollars each.






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The Mac mini sells for little more than the Sony PlayStation 3 will cost when it ships, but it can do things the PS3 won't be able to, such as handle word processing, video editing, photo and music editing and organizing, and more. What if it could also play Nintendo games?


On the heels of a recent rumor that Apple is developing iPod games under the direction of a former LucasArts employee, Cnet's UK site 'Crave' on Friday speculated that the company could actually make a move to acquire Nintendo.

"What could be more quintessentially left-field Apple behavior than buying out the U.S.'s number three games console manufacturer?"

the article asked.


Cultural Similarities


It pointed to similar corporate philosophies, brand loyalty, design styles, and complementary market spaces as reasons why the merger isn't so far-fetched.


Cisco Systems was rumored to be interested in the purchase earlier this year, and Apple's market cap is twice that of Nintendo's, so it's possible that the Japanese company is open to the possibility.

"However, " Crave noted, "a city analyst told Crave that aggressive takeovers of Japanese companies can be difficult and expensive. Japanese companies use the keiretsu system of interlocking holdings and partnerships, which makes conventional takeovers exceptionally hard."

Mini Games?


Where could this all lead? Crave pointed out that the Mac mini sells for little more than the Sony PlayStation 3 will cost when it ships.


Apple's diminutive computer, however, can do things the PS3 won't be able to, such as handle word processing, video editing, photo and music editing and organizing, and more.

"What if the mini could also play Nintendo games," the article asked, "and not just play Nintendo games, but play Nintendo games specifically tailored to the strengths of the Mac mini's hardware?"

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Apple could create a "killer converged entertainment device" by adding Wi-Fi functionality to its iPod digital media players that could attract 100 million users by 2011, an analyst firm claimed today.


A new study from ON World suggests that consumer devices such as iPods with integrated Wi-Fi and VoIP will become the preferred way of accessing internet services in the future. Over the next five years, the PC industry is expected to drive the consumer mobile VoIP market with its growing "real-time internet" telecoms network of services, devices and infrastructure.

"The PC industry has found an ideal services model and this is the 'real-time internet'," said Mareca Hatler, director of research at ON World.

"Services such as VoIP, video, music, radio, news and instant messaging, coupled with mobile devices such as a Wi-Fi enabled iPod and the ubiquity of broadband, will result in 100 million consumer mobile VoIP users in 2011."

The PC industry will ship more than twice as many mobile VoIP devices per year as the telecoms industry in 2011, the ON World study estimated.

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Despite pressure from businesses, a Senate vote has brought France within months of enforcing a controversial copyright law that would have wide-ranging effects on those selling or listening to digital music.


The sweeping law, passed by the Senate late Wednesday, also has repercussions for software companies, media owners and others that produce copyright-protected works, as well as consumers who copy such material.

"France has adopted an entirely new and unique approach to managing digital music and films that could be a model for other countries to follow," said Jonathan Arber, an analyst in London at Ovum, a consulting firm. "Everyone will be watching the impact six months down the line to see whether consumers or companies have benefited."

Government officials said Thursday that differences between the Senate and National Assembly versions of the bill would be worked out in a committee before the legislation became law, a process that was likely to take several months.


Both versions reduce the penalties for piracy to the equivalent of a traffic offense, require software companies to provide the government with details about the inner workings of their programs, and create an agency with jurisdiction over important digital copyright issues.

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