Did Microsoft beat Apple to dual-sided touch technology?

ZDNet Blogs - The Unwired View article takes the patent device and imagines a number of “expressions” of its own, including a iPod nano-sized iPhone with a clamshell input pad, a Mac tablet notebook with a virtualized keyboard, and a standard notebook with a

Apple sales soar to capture 14% of US PC retail sales
ZDNet Blogs - Apple’s on a roll.  It took the success of the iPod and transformed brand awareness (people knowing about iPods) into company awareness (people knowing about Apple) and then used that to cross-sell Macs to a whole generation of users who, a few

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CNET News - Such was the experience I had last December with the iPod Touch I had shelled out $400 for just a couple months earlier. I had it one night and went to look for it the next day and it was gone.

Apple Releases Safari 3.1
Biloxi Sun Herald - Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.

Jessica Alba, Apple violate Pope’s new sins
New York Daily News - Portfolio magazine reports on toxins found in iPhone and iPod headphone cords, and Apple’s computer recycling program lags behind those of its rivals.

Piracy provision aims at universities
Daily Pilot - They can’t download to an iPod or move tracks from place to place, and many don’t have a full range of selection. It doesn’t make sense for Congress to mandate something that has failed in the public marketplace.

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Austin Chronicle - Is the only way to prevent vinyl singles from being cast into the black hole that is the iPod Shuffle, never to be randomly selected again. Spoon ’s single “The Underdog (demo)” b/w “It Took a Rumor to Make Me Wonder, Now I’m Convinced I’m Going

iPhone, iPod to get gaming platforms
Orlando Sentinel - Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch are on track to become the next big portable gaming platforms. Last week, when Apple unveiled software to build applications for portable touch-screen devices, they showed footage of EA’s Spore, a highly anticipated game

New Shippensburg University student rec center draws oohs and aahs
Herald-Mail - Cardio machines - treadmills, ellipticals, etc. - are equipped with small televisions that will broadcast basic cable stations, as well as iPod jacks.

Appeals court upholds ruling against game buy ban
Media Life Magazine - News junkies can now add local headlines from their CBS-owned TV affiliate to their MySpace profile, along with advertising. It’s the latest move by a major TV network to try to make money off the internet. CBS Corp. TV station sites will form the