Tuesday, July 5, 2005
News
Coming Soon: Music Player Bargains?
Apple's decision to cut the iPod shuffle's price may prompt other companies to do the same.
iTunes Countdown To Half A Billion Songs Announced
As part of the countdown, Apple is giving away an iPod mini and an iTunes gift card for 50 songs to the iTunes customer who purchases the winning song at each 100,000 interval.
Apple Third Quarter Results Due July 13
Car Makers Tune In To iPod Craze
The sheer force of iPod's popularity seems to have shaken the auto industry into action and prompted car companies to open their dashboards to the device.
Podcasting Ads Face Challenges
Among those challenges are finding ways of measuring listening and of evfficiently buying ads on a medium that has so far been made up of small, fragmented audiences.
Opinion
10.4 Tiger Is Less Robust Than 10.3?
Use Vision To Spur Growth
What is behind the success of brands like British Airways or Apple? They live their vision.
How To Share The Light Of A Cult Product's Halo
The worry is that Apple's stratospheric valuation reflects the halo of its charismatic founder as much as the money-making potential of the enterprise.
Review
Album Art In iTunes For Mac OS X
Burning Monkey Mahjong 2
Burning Monkey Mahjong is a cheerful game that will have you playing longer than you expect.
Chessmaster 9000
For all you get with Chessmaster, the $40 is well worth it.
Eye Candy 5: Nature
Nature is a clear step forward in interface design, but it still needs some retooling to be fully impressive.
Visual Thesaurus 3
Visual Thesaurus 3 is one of the most stylish, truly useful reference tools we've encountered.
Podcasting And The iPod
So well done Apple engineers.
Sidetrack
Jonathan Watts, The Guardian, reports that Disney is remaking Snow White — with kung fu.
Big media companies keep exerting their control over old materials by extending the length of copyright period so that others cannot touch the materials, while the very same media companies keep recycling old materials, with each iteration worse than the previous.
Wintel
Microsofft's Personnel Puzzle
Microsoft is working to change its long-standing reputation for haughtiness in hiring.
Don't Take The Tablets!
You'd think by now the message should have got through to Microsoft's top brass that consumers and businesses aren't exactly falling over themselves to buy overpriced handwriting recognition products.
