Microsoft’s Zune group has been running an ad for the last couple of weeks showcasing a financial analyst arguing that it will cost you $30,000 to fill an iPod, while a Zune only costs about $15 a month. This week, Napster, now under the Best Buy brand, is re-launching with $5 a month streaming service and the ability to keep five tracks a month. Napster was the original music service to beat, but unfortunately the company didn’t have rights to the music it was giving away for free, and theft turned out to be a bad business model. A group of us now have a running bet on how long it will be before Napster shows up as a downloaded application for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2004
The new version features deep integration of pen support in Windows XP, making it easier to create text anywhere in Windows and familiar Windows applications. In addition to recently announced toolsin the Tablet PC SDK that enable them to create pen-aware Web pages, the new operating system now offers software developers a rich set of capabilities to deliver innovative software applicationsbased on the Tablet PC platform.
The announcement of Tablet PC Edition 2004 caps the Tablet PC’s first year, which has been marked by continued growth in the number of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and independent service vendors (ISVs) supporting the platform, an ever-expanding number of customer pilot deployments, and the first corporate deployments of the Tablet PC as a next-generation notebook PC.
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