A Microsoft executive said Thursday that the HP and Apple iPod/iTunes agreement would limit choice and harm consumers on the Windows platform. “Windows is about choice, you can mix and match all of this stuff,” David Fester, general manager of Microsoft’s Windows digital media division, told the New York Times.
Read MoreCarly Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard’s chairman and chief executive officer, has unveiled the new iPod-based HP device at the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The “HP Digital Music Player” that was shown is light blue in color, sports an “HP” logo on the back, and is “the first and only one,” according to Fiorina.
Read MoreThe New York Times’ David Pogue sat in on an interview (not yet published) this week with Steve Jobs in which the Apple CEO gave his thoughts on hand-held video players. Jobs offered several good reasons why he doubted video players would ever approach the success of audio players such as the iPod. Although, in typical Jobs fashion, he said: “Now, I’m not saying we’re not working on something like that. Who knows what we’ve got in our labs?”
Read MoreLess than a week after the introduction of GarageBand, five new Web sites are ready to serve users of the music creation software. Among them is GarageBandExchange, GarageBandCreations, GarageBandUsers, SonicCat, and AppleGarage.
Read MoreApple senior IT director Dean Rally on Thursday disclosed some interesting information on how Apple runs its own business on a great deal of Apple machines. “Rally said Xserve is the mainstay of Apple’s corporate data center, with the rack-mounted server being used to deliver Web pages, files and applications, as well as for authentication and security,” reports CNET News.com.
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