Year: 2004

Target to offer iTunes gift cards

According to an iPodlounge reader, Apple and Target have teamed up to offer US$15 iTunes Music Store gift cards. The new promotion is expected to kick off on Sunday, Feb. 15. As you may recall, Target first started selling Apple’s iPod in October 2002, but later dropped the product due to a dispute with Apple’s reseller contract. In Aprill 2003, the retailer began selling the device again.

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Macs are ‘viable options’ for scientists

There are no hard figures available to chart the Mac’s rise in scientific communities, but “anecdotal evidence suggests various Apple machines, from the Xserve G5 to the PowerBook, have become viable options,” according to E-Commerce Times. One example given is Virginia Tech and its supercomputing cluster built first with Power Mac G5s, then Xserve G5s.

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