Thursday, August 24, 2006

Apple Recalls 1.8 Million Laptop Batteries. The batteries were made by a unit of Sony, which also made the 4.1 million batteries recalled by Dell last week. By DAMON DARLIN. [NYT > Business] comment []11:24:18 PM

Dell dumps DJ Ditty music player. Dell Inc. has dropped the DJ Ditty, a music player it hoped would compete with Apple Computer's iPod. But the player never caught on in the marketplace and was considered hard to use. [Computerworld Breaking News] comment []7:09:34 PM

Dark Days at Dell. The tech industry's lean, mean direct sales machine is on the fritz, and there don't seem to be any easy fixes. What gives? [BusinessWeek Online -- Technology & Science] comment []10:57:15 AM

Apple to pay $100 mln to Creative in settlement. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. said on Wednesday it will pay $100 million to Creative Technology Ltd. to settle all patent litigation over Apple's popular iPod music player. [Reuters: Technology] comment []3:59:17 AM

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