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*** Apple iTunes 'Overcharging In UK'
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4065539.stm>
BBC News

The Office of Fair Trading has referred Apple's iTunes service to the European Commission on grounds that it overcharges UK customers.

[News]

*** iPod Year's Hot Gift
<http://www.presstelegram.com/Stories/0,1413,204~21478~2572638,00.html>
Rachel Konrad, Associated Press

But the price $299 for the basic model means it isn't likely to find a home in every stocking this Christmas.

*** Res Life To Hand Out Free iPods
<http://www.asuwebdevil.com/issues/2004/12/03/news/689482>
Nicole Saidi, ASU Web Devil

Residential Life is offering free MP3 players if eligible students apply by 5 pm Friday.

*** Take A Bite Out Of This Apple
<http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/02/technology/techinvestor/lamonica/index.htm>
Paul R. La Monica, CNN/Money

The iPod maker still has great prospects but it makes sense for investors to cash in on gains.

*** .Mac Affiliate Program
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/webx?14@621.EnwPaOtfRl0.0@.3c4f5c5c!discloc=.3c54e4f1>
Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS

*** Apple Releases New Mac OS X Security Update
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/12/02/securityupdate/>
MacMinute

The update for 10.3.6 Client includes updated versions of Apache, AppKit, HIToolbox, Kerberos, Postfix, PSNormalizer, Safari, and Terminal.

*** Music Fans Celebrate Hotly Anticipated Candian Launch Of iTunes
<http://www3.cjad.com/content/cp_article.asp?id=/global_feeds/canadianpress/entertainmentnews/e120237A.htm>
Canadian Press

*** Canadians Get iTunes On The Cheap
<http://news.com.com/Canadians+get+iTunes+on+the+cheap/2100-1027_3-5474796.html?tag=nl>
Ina Fried, CNET News.com

Although Canadians had to wait awhile to get access to the iTunes Music Store, they are getting a comparative bargain.

*** Band Aid Is iTunes Number 1
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=10318>
Jonny Evans, Macworld UK

[Opinion]

*** Apple, Google -- And The Power Of Rumour
<http://hardware.silicon.com/storage/0,39024649,39126271,00.htm>
Seb Janacek, Silicon.com

Therein lies one of Apple's most valuable yet least tangible assets -- the insatiable power of rumour.

*** Why There's No Me In iPod
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1102027808477&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795>
Niall Mckenna, The Star

Something is rotten in the state of music culture. I'm talking about the love of music being replaced by the love of technology.

*** Flash Gordon
<http://daringfireball.net/2004/12/flash_gordon>
John Gruber, Daring Fireball

No matter what the case, if there is a flash memory iPod in the pipeline, the fact that it uses flash memory is the least interesting part of the story.

[Sidetrack]

*** Thank You For The Competition, Dearest IBM.
Heng-Cheong Leong

Yes! It's a hard-fought battle. Two PC companies, Apple and IBM, were competing directly for a slice of the personal computer pie back in the 1980s. Apple has its Apple ][ and Macintosh line, and IBM has its IBM PC and PCjr line. Twenty-plus years later, Apple has won the battle, as IBM is now, as rumor-mongered <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/03/technology/03ibm.html> by New York Times, selling off its personal computer business.

Yes, Apple has won the battle.

:-)

*** Okay... It's A "Nice Device"
Heng-Cheong Leong

But it doesn't matter, claimed Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft. iPods and standalone music players will be obsolete in five years, replaced by mobile phones that have much more powerful MP3 players built in, reports Mike Wendland.

*** Censorship Blackbox Discovery
Heng-Cheong Leong

Xeni Jardin over at Boing Boing <http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/02/msn_spaces_seven_dir.html> is trying to discover what kind of censorship is there behind Microsoft MSN's new blog hosting and tool.

But as Dan Gillmor <http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/02/msn_spaces_seven_dir.html> notes, "this will make Microsoft an object of derision in the blogosphere. Better to do it right, and let people say what they want to say."

[Wintel]

*** I.B.M. Said To Put Its PC Business On The Market
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/03/technology/03ibm.html>
Andrew Ross Sorkin and Steve Lohr, New York Times

While I.B.M. long ago ceded the lead in the personal computer market to Dell and HP so it could focus instead on the more lucrative corporate server and computer services business, a sale would nonetheless bring the end of an era in an industry that it helped invent. The sale, likely to be in the $1 billion to $2 billion range, is expected to include the entire range of desktop, laptop and notebook computers made by I.B.M.

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[Top Stories]

*** Wozniak's Wheels Of Zeus Tackles Enterprise Data Encryption
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,,1734857,00.asp>
Ryan Naraine, eWeek

Steve Wozniak's Wheels of Zeus is beginning to roll, and enterprise data protection is one destination on the Apple Computer Inc. co-founder's mind.

[News]

*** False Promises About Ending Spam
<http://news.com.com/False+promises+about+ending+spam/2010-7348_3-5475993.html?part=rss&tag=5475993&subj=news.7348.20>
Charles Cooper, CNET News.com

When it comes to combating the spam pandemic, there's the appearance and there's the reality.

*** Broadband Challenges TV Viewing
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4065047.stm>
BBC News

The number of Europeans with broadband has exploded over the past 12 months, with the web eating into TV viewing habits, research suggests.

*** The Search For Science
<http://www.techreview.com/articles/04/12/wo_asbrand120204.asp>
Deborah Asbrand, MIT Technology Review

Google's new search service will open not just the world of scientific research but also the enclave of pricey journals.

*** Fight For Public Domain Goes On
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65898,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
Katie Dean, Wired News

Archivists who want to digitize "orphan works" -- books, movies and films that are no longer commercially viable but remain under copyright -- lose a court battle. But they vow to continue the war to rebalance copyright law.

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[Tech & Science]

*** O Hologram, Where Art Thou?
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2110446/fr/rss/>
Paul Boutin, Slate

Why holograms look so cool in the movies -- and so lame in real life.

[Life]

*** You Can't Buy Your Way Out Of A Bureaucracy
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/03/opinion/03howard.html?ex=1259816400&#38;en=2abfdf31506b1dea&%2338;ei=5088&%2338;partner=rssnyt>
Philip K. Howard, New York Times

No amount of money will rescue a ship that is sinking under the weight of endless rules and bureaucracy.

*** The Hit We Almost Missed
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/03/opinion/03considine.html?ex=1259816400&#38;en=671e1bd46f56245e&%2338;ei=5088&%2338;partner=rssnyt>
Shaun Considine, New York Times

It's official, I guess. Forty years after he recorded it, Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" was just named the greatest rock 'n' roll song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine, a tribute it had previously been given by New Musical Express, Britain's leading pop-music weekly. Quite an honor, considering that the single was almost never released.

*** TV Chefs That Don't Bite
<http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2004/12/02/cooking/index_np.html>
Sumana Harihareswara, Salon

If you really want to learn how to cook -- as opposed to learning how to "entertain" -- stick with these two shows.

*** Some Points I Must Insist Upon
<http://blogs.csmonitor.com/verbal_energy/2004/12/>
Ruth Walker, Christian Science Monitor

Listening to how English is changing sometimes means keeping an ear cocked for what's no longer being said, for words that are falling out of the language.