Question: What segment of the market has $600 to spend on a smart phone but hasn’t ever bought an iPod or any other product from Apple? Answer: Corporate executives and managers, account executives, small business owners, and professionals — just … Continue reading
Among several Windows Vista patches released yesterday, Microsoft included one that lets iPods be disconnected without getting corrupted (see “Microsoft trying to make Vista iPod-friendly” by Ina Fried, CNET News.com). As I reported here and in my other blog (see … Continue reading
Among several Windows Vista patches released yesterday, Microsoft included one that lets iPods be disconnected without getting corrupted. This time, Microsoft blinked first and fixed the problem.
Continue readingAs reported before, iTunes has a problem with Vista. The new iTunes version 7.1.1., released last week, which packs a lot of new features, fixes some of these problems, but not all. As I report in my other blog (iTimes), … Continue reading
It looks like Apple is serious about not licensing its FairPlay Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology used to protect music sold through its iTunes online store. Steve Jobs has put it all into perspective in an open letter on the … Continue reading
More details of the Zune media player from Microsoft have been released. By most accounts and blogs, it’s a ho-hum affair, as I noted in my last blog entry. Microsoft and its partners will be losing money this holiday season … Continue reading
The iPod changed the way we deal with audio and video, much like the Mac two decades earlier changed the way we deal with text and graphics. Eventually the PC caught up with the Mac in many ways (though not … Continue reading
With all the press Apple’s been getting lately about the iPod, you’d think the company had only recently introduced it. The real news is that the iTunes online store has taken over the digital music market. According to the BBC, … Continue reading
Controversy about privacy swirled briefly around Apple’s latest iTunes update (version 6.0.2), which turns on a new feature that transmits listening habits back to Apple. By default, the update switches on the MiniStore, which recommends songs to buy from the … Continue reading
Controversy about privacy swirled briefly around Apple’s latest iTunes update, which turns on a new feature that transmits listening habits back to Apple.
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