Year: 2003

Terra Soft offers preliminary support for G5

Posted by | Nov 12, 2003 | |

Terra Soft Solutions, the leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions, today announced “preliminary support” for Apple’s Power Mac G5. “Terra Soft firmly believes the IBM PowerPC 970 technology, core to the Apple Power Mac G5, is a leap-forward platform. The solution we are providing today is just the first step of our commitment to a robust and powerful Linux solution that takes full advantage of the amazing hardware now available from Apple,” said Dan Burcaw, CFO of Terra Soft.

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Playlistism: judging others by their iTunes playlist

Posted by | Nov 12, 2003 | |

“Thanks to the ability of Apple’s iTunes to share music collections over local networks, it is now possible to judge someone’s taste in music — or lack of it — in a way that previously required a certain level of intimacy,” reports Wired’s Leander Kahney. “On college campuses, for example, a new form of bigotry called ‘Playlistism‘ is emerging. The invention of students at Wesleyan University, playlistism…

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iTMS sales pose new problem for Billboard charts

Posted by | Nov 12, 2003 | |

Rising sales of digital tracks through music services such as the iTunes Music Store are raising questions about how such transactions should be measured on the Billboard charts. Sales of digital songs without a corresponding physical single are not included on The Billboard Hot 100. Individual download sales are tracked separately on the Hot Digital Tracks chart. “However, there is a growing sense that this must change,” Billboard Bulletin reports.

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