The iPod was never sold on the grounds of its technical merits: Apple hit a gold-mine by marketing a cool new way of integrating music in your life. Even when Apple announced the iPod with video, it presented it not as the best multi-media player in the universe, but as a cool new way of… Continue reading The New Laws of Digital Technology

The cat, as they say, is out of the bag. Origami looks to be small (approx 7″), Tablet PC style device. A marketing company has a promo video for it online – see it HERE (click work, then ‘brandtheatre’, then Microsoft Origami). From the video, it would appear that these devices can play back music,… Continue reading Microsoft’s Origami Project Revealed

In the past days, we’ve all been tantalized with images of what some claim to be a new 6th generation iPod. One image that appeared on the Internet showed a nice, clean piece of technology, presumably from Apple, while the other image shows another nice piece of technology, again presumably from Apple, but with a… Continue reading Rumors of 6th Generation iPod

In addition to the billionth song downloader grand prize apple also awarded the purchaser of every 100,000th song up to 500 million with an iPod mini (in the color of your choice) and a 50-song iTunes Music Store gift card. * iPod mini in your favorite color * 50-song Gift Card for the iTunes Music… Continue reading Apple Releases List of iTunes Music Store Winners

It may well have been the best 99 cents Alex Ostrovsky ever spent. Early yesterday, he paid that amount to download “Speed of Sound,” a song on the Coldplay album “X&Y,” from the iTunes Music Store, the Internet music shop that Apple Computer started less than three years ago. He did not know it, but… Continue reading iTunes Billionth Song Downloader