Year: 2003

iTunes Music Store gets exclusive Sarah McLachlan EP

Posted by | Oct 7, 2003 | |

On October 21, Arista Records will release a new Sarah McLachlan EP that will be available for the first 30 days exclusively from Apple’s iTunes Music Store, Billboard Bulletin reports. “Acoustic Live EP 2003” will have five songs recorded in concert earlier this year — a pair from McLachlan’s new album “Afterglow,” due November 4, and three older tracks. “Fallen,” the first single from “Afterglow,” debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Digital Tracks chart with 2,500 paid downloads.

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Apple, others test on-chip liquid cooling technology

Posted by | Oct 7, 2003 | |

Apple could possibly take advantage of a new processor-cooling technique announced yesterday by Cooligy, a Stanford University spin-off company. In fact, the company said it has already prototyped the system with Apple, Intel and AMD. “Cooligy’s approach — called Active Micro-Channel Cooling (AMC) — involves scoring hundreds of tiny channels into a silicon layer placed on the upper surface of the chip package, reports The Register.

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FirewireDirect offers Spark 800 mobile hard drive

Posted by | Oct 7, 2003 | |

FirewireDirect today announced the Spark 800, the latest addition to the company’s line of FireWire 800 storage products. The Spark 800 is a FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 equipped portable 2.5-inch hard drive, available in configurations up to 80GB. It is housed in a compact, silver chassis “barely larger than a deck of cards,” and ships with Intech’s Speed Tools for the Mac. Pricing starts at US$299.95.

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