Since its October 2001 launch,
the iPod has been a huge success for Apple Computer. Sales of the portable digital-music players now generate about 35 percent of the company's total revenue, and some customers who want to get their hands on the new iPod Shuffle face up to a four-week wait.
Less noticed is all the non-Apple business the iPod has been generating. Popular and inventive accessories marketed toward iPod users include a recorder add-on, a runway-ready speaker-tote, a living-room remote and car adapters galore. In addition, sites such as iPodlounge.com devoting space to sorting through iPod extras have seen their own surge in traffic and advertising revenue.
Nice Story, kid. Now lets see some stories about whether MS can hold onto its position with various market segments, especially the home market. Frankly, I'm even predicting near-term MS failure in the enterprise desktop market. A year from now, Dell's growth will have completely stalled.
The space agency powered down its last System z machine, years after IBM stopped selling them for the mathematical calculation jobs NASA originally bought them for.
The rise of Apple's stores is one of the past decade's great retail stories. So, why then does the company continue to creep back into the big-box outlets and will this hurt the brand?
The company helps small businesses with little tech savvy build apps easily, and now its partner Constant Contact will email-blast prospective users, too.
The Samsung Galaxy Mini 2 S6500 could make its debut at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month, according to a leaked promotional image.
Web giant is spending $120 million to beef up its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, according to filings with the city reviewed by the San Jose Mercury News.
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon--all are targets for Mozilla's plan to use Web apps to free people from ecosystem lock-in. Also: new Firefox features aplenty.
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