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There's all kinds of crazy stuff going with iTunes today. People are reporting broken libraries and songs they can't re-download, and Apple has added a "My Alerts" page to the iTunes store to go along with the e-mail alerts they had previously. It's quite the combination of iTunes 7.1 growing pains and Apple policy.

If you saw these at your local grocery store, what would you think?

Samsung Electronics is putting the finishing touches on an 8 gigabyte chip -- a high-density embedded flash memory device capable of storing up to 2,000 songs on a cell phone. The South Korea-based company expects to begin mass producing the line of flash memory and firmware chips, called "moviNAND," by the end of the year.

Less than a week ago, EU Commissioner for Consumer Protection Meglena Kuneva used some pretty tough language regarding the iTunes Store and the iPod. The thrust of her argument was that no one would accept CDs that only played in certain players, and that "something must change" in regards to how DRM is handled by Apple ...

KOCH Records today announced recording Puerto Rican and Aruban rapper Jim Jones has continued to innovate by making his new video for "Emotionless" available exclusively on the iTunes Store. This initiative marks the first time ever that a hip hop video has world premiered on iTunes.