January 6, 2004

Apple Rolls Out Cheaper iPod (Reuters). Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday said it would introduce next month a smaller and cheaper version of its popular iPod music player to challenge rivals in the market for flash-memory-based digital devices. [Yahoo! News - Technology] 10:44:19 PM     Watchdog Sues Music Labels. A Belgian consumer advocacy group sues the music industry's largest labels for selling CDs that won't play on your car stereo or computer. [Wired News] 10:47:39 AM     Griffin Announces Voice Recorder for iPod [andPOP] 10:42:29 AM     I gotta say that this title, about a Microsoft iPod Killer for me is depressing, in that wherever there is a market created by a true innovator like Apple, that Microsoft is able to through its sheer size and market dominance, steal that market away from the ture innovator! Think  Mac vs Windows, think Internet browser, Mosaic then Netscape. The only ray of hope I can see on the horizon is Open Source Business Models, that create new opportunities for innovators! Microsoft's iPod-Killer: Portable Media Center?. securitas writes "The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Todd Bishop reports on what's billed as an iPod-killer: the Microsoft Portable Media Center line of digital ... [Slashdot] 10:30:43 AM     Prisonaires: golden age pop music from behind bars. In Jonathan Lethem's Fortress of Solitude, which I finished on a plane yesterday, there's an amazing aside about a band called The Prisonaires, a group of 1950s black men who'd been sent to jail on faked-up charges and who formed a best-selling pop group behind bars, leaving on special work-release programs to perform and record. It turns out that The Prisonaires aren't fictional -- what's more, you can actually buy a reissue CD of their greatest hits. Link [Boing Boing Blog] 9:44:52 AM     NY Times: Five Giants in Technology Unite to Deter File Sharing. Now, five of what industry executives say are the world's most powerful computer, cellphone and electronics companies are planning a new system for protecting digital music, video and software from illicit file sharing that they hope will at least narrow that gap. [Tomalak's Realm] 12:44:10 AM

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