Currently available through iTunes New Zealand – and expected to propagate to other markets in the coming hours – 9to5Mac this afternoon highlights that music giant Sony appears to be looking to take market share away from services such as Spotify and Rdio, today announcing the launch of ‘Music Unlimited’ for Apple’s iOS operating system.

In the run up to the release of John Mayer’s highly-anticipated album ‘Born and Raised’ expected to hit shelves on May 21, Apple is tonight allowing fans of the American singer to preview the album (in full) on iTunes.

Apple has this week announced its annual iTunes Festival in which some of the hottest artists of right now will be asked by the company to come and perform at London’s Roundhouse music arena, later this year.

Then you need not look further than Thin Lizzy’s album “Jailbreak (Deluxe Edition),” which was reportedly censored by the company to remove the word “Jailbreak” from its track listing, instead choosing to display the word using a bunch of asterisks’ – (a method usually reserved to denote a highly-offensive word or phrase).

In an interesting development regarding the U.S Justice Department’s on-going investigation into publishers (allegedly) price-fixing e-books on both Apple’s Newsstand and the iBookstore, Senior Vice President Of Internet Software and Services – Eddy Cue – this week issued a statement to News Corp-owned The Wall Street Journal noting that the company was only trying to [...]