Microsoft’s iPod Competitor Headed by ex-iPod Development Head

December 8th, 2005 Apple could be in for a big legal fight with competitor Creative over the navigation technology used in iPod music players. Creative CEO Sim Wong Hoo plans to pursue aggressively a US patent it owns on a system used to navigate music on digital players.

August 15th, 2005 Could this end up being one of the most hilarious development in IT for a while? It seems that Apple is being made to sweat over its iPod technology after it emerged late last week that its lazy lawyers took so long to patent its phenomenally successful player that Microsoft beat them to it. The fallout could theoretically mean Apple has to pay up to $10 per device to (Dark Lord) Microsoft and with over 10 million of them sold to date… well, that would surely affect their bottomline.

March 16th, 2009 After Apple's newest surprise of coming out with the 'smallest mp3 player the world has seen', i.e. the new iPod shuffle, now its time for apple accessories to live up to theirs.

March 13th, 2009 Whenever there is a news of Apple, it is big by all means. So when we got to know that iPod Shuffle 3rd generation was being man-handled by iFixit, we couldn't but go and give it a check.

February 21st, 2006 Amazon is preparing to launch its own portable digital music player in direct competition to Apple's iPod. The plan is interesting for its business model.

June 21st, 2006 Creative announced Zen V which offers great features in a tiny, flash-based form factor (about the size and shape of a smooth-cornered Zippo lighter). The player gives you everything you get with the iPod Nano except iTunes compatibility, and adds a few solid extras.

January 28th, 2007 Fairplay DRM (an ironical name) actually restricts fair play by other music players. You are forced to buy an iPod if you want to listen to iTunes music.

May 24th, 2006 Rumors are rife about Google's venture into lucrative online music store market, thereby competing with Apple's highly successful iPod. Declan finds that Google has added /music to its robots.txt file, potentially indicating the site can come up anytime.

January 11th, 2006 According to Steve Jobs keynote address at Macworld, 14 million iPods were sold in the holiday quarter (compared to 4.5 million a year earlier); 8 million videos sold through iTunes since October 12, when videos were first offered. Apple's retail stores also had their first billion-dollar quarter! Jobs introduced a super cool new accessory for the iPod.

April 27th, 2009 This is what is called a lottery from Apple. Surprised? Well you should be, as Apple has always been known for taking away the extra pocket money from you with over priced product and not the other way around.

September 22nd, 2009 Industry group: OK for iTunes to block Palm PreSAN FRANCISCO — Apple Inc. appears to have clearance from an industry group to block rival Palm Inc.'s Pre phone from connecting with iTunes software.

April 18th, 2006 Burst.com has filed a countersuit against Apple Computer claiming that the iTunes software, the iPod and the Quicktime streaming software all infringe on patents held by Burst.com. Burst is asking for royalties as well as an injunction.

July 21st, 2009 Apple profit up 15 pct, helped by iPhones, laptopsSEATTLE — Apple Inc., the closest thing the tech industry has to a luxury brand, said Tuesday its profit jumped 15 percent in the most recent quarter despite the recession. IPhone revenue surged and reduced prices pushed laptop sales higher, even as the rest of the PC industry shrank.

July 22nd, 2009 Apple 3Q beats Street despite recessionSEATTLE — Apple Inc. seems to have missed the memo — you know, the one about the recession.

March 23rd, 2009 Ubuntu 8.10, Intrepid Ibex, has been a significantly satisfying version according to many Ubuntu fans. But  upon searching the internet about a compatible iPhone synchronization app, I found none to my astonishment.