Apple has quietly launched Ping, its social network designed to drive sales of digital music, for the iPad, now available within the iTunes app. The addition became available this weekend without the ...

Apple audaciously seems to think the world actually needs another social network -- one that you even need special software to be part of, to boot. With the introduction Wednesday of 'Ping," a ...

Apple has quietly released iTunes 10.0.1, a minor update that fixes a few bugs and better integrates the Ping music social networking service. On the bug front, iTunes 10.0.1 fixes video picture ...

Back in 2010, Apple was riding high on the iPod and iTunes Music Store but it was missing out on social media. Enter Ping, a music-based network that faltered from the start and was dropped two years ...

Thursday afternoon, Twitter came forward and officially announced that the micro-blogging service has begun a social networking partnership with Apple's Ping music service. It's now easier than ever ...

At the Apple press conference today, Steve Jobs unveiled Ping, a music social network seamlessly integrated into the latest version of iTunes 10. How do artists connect with their fans? Twitter?

The attempt at a social network by the tech-giant-turned-music-distributor debuted in September 2010, but the service fell flat and the company has since changed its social-music strategy. By William ...