Apparently taking a cue from the tight integration of Apple’s iPod and iTunes Music Store, Samsung has announced plans to co-market a new line of digital music players with the soon-to-be-relaunched Napster 2.0 service.
Read MoreBare Feats has posted benchmarks for the new aluminum 15-inch 1.25GHz PowerBook and 17-inch 1.33GHz PowerBook. “The new 15″ (and 17″) Aluminum PowerBooks don’t seem to suffer from the missing level 3 cache. The larger on-chip level 2 cache seems to take care of business,” reports the site. “The bumped up clock speed and Radeon 9600 graphics translate into better performance.
Read MoreThe Apple Store has updated its refurbished offerings with a slew of new products, including eMacs, iPods, PowerBooks, Power Macs, iBooks, iMacs, AirPort and AirPort Extreme Base Stations, displays, and more. All Apple refurbished gear is covered by Apple’s one-year limited warranty. Customers can also purchase AppleCare Protection Plans to go along with their refurbished equipment.
Read MoreCNET News.com reports that criticism is quickly growing over VeriSign’s decision to take control of all unassigned .com and .net domain names. “On Monday, VeriSign began to redirect domain lookups for misspelled or nonexistent names to its own site, a process that has confused Internet e-mail utilities and drawn angry denunciations of the company’s business practices from frustrated network administrators.
Read MoreUltimate Technographics and Xpedx today announced a special joint promotion that offers a “free” 1.6GHz Power Mac G5 with the purchase of Impostrip 6.8 — Ultimate Technographics’ imposition prepress solution — for the normal selling price of US$6,995.
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