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PC Notebook

Video of MITs US$100 Laptop

Engadget has a link to a video of MIT’s US100 laptop in action: We can’t say this is the pinnacle hands-on review of the One Laptop Per Child prototype, but it does offer a nice view of the ambitious $100 lappy, and the interview with Dr. Mary Lou Jepson, who is the CTO of the […]

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iTunes Music Store

iTMS Outsells Traditional Music Retailers

The Chicago Tribune (free reg req’d) reports that Apple Computer’s iTunes Music Store now sells more music than Tower Records or Borders, according to analyst firm the NPD Group. Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes online store was ranked the seventh-largest music retailer in the U.S. in the third quarter, breaking into the top 10 for the […]

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iPod

Apple Prepays $1.25B to Secure Flash Chips Through 2010

Apple today announced that it has reached long-term supply agreements with Hynix, Intel, Micron, Samsung Electronics and Toshiba to secure the supply of NAND flash memory through 2010. As part of these agreements, Apple intends to prepay a total of $1.25 billion for flash memory components during the next three months. (Via Digg) Prepare for […]

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Review

Review: EDGE Dock & Multi Flash Card Reader for iPod

EdgeTech’s new Dock & Multi Flash Card Reader for iPod is like a traditional iPod dock with the additional functionality of being a flash memory card reader. If you keep a flash media reader on your desk, the $45 dock provides a nice way to get rid of an extra peripheral and clean up some […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: TiVo for your iPod

As you can probably tell, I’m pretty fired up about the iPod video lately. It went from having little or no video content available for it to a glut in less than a month. I previously blogged about how to convert your own content and DVDs to the iPod’s 320*240 (QVGA) format, and about a […]