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Tuesday, May 6, 2003

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Economist Article on Digital Music: "So the launch on April 28th of a new online music service by Apple, a computer maker, could be a big step forward. The new service, called iTunes Music Store, rejects monthly subscriptions for a simpler model: each track from its 200,000-track library costs $0.99. Once purchased and downloaded, a track can be copied on to as many as three computers, burned on to CDs, and transferred on to Apple's popular iPod portable music-players. There is no need to buy an entire album just for one or two tracks. And Apple's boss, Steve Jobs, hopes that because there is no subscription fee, purchasing a track will become an 'impulse buy'. Many people, he observes, happily spend $3 on a cup of coffee." [GrepLaw]

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Apple Pumps Up Volume In Online Music Service Fray: "The iTunes Music Store contains lots of music that people would actually want to buy and makes buying it virtually painless, at least until the bill arrives." (Boston Globe via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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A new office: "When Evan and I started Pyra, we worked in my living room for the first three months or so. While that was fun, there was something really special when we got our own office space and moved to SOMA. Somehow it felt more official, and I remembed how my enthusiasm and productivity soared when we set up our new shop." [megnut]

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IBM to speed top-end Unix server: "IBM is set to announce on Tuesday an overhaul of its top-end p690 Unix server, a system the company claims will be 65 percent faster than current models and that later will let customers rent additional processing power on an as-needed basis." [Google Technology News]

Planets in our solar system have IP addresses -- Comment()
t e c h n o c u l t u r e writes: "All the planets in our solar system have already have been assigned IP addresses, according to an article highlighted by Roland Piquepaille."

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Million songs sold at Apple's Music Store in first week: "Apple today announced that they have sold 1 million songs on their iTunes Music Store in the past week. More than half of the songs that were purchased were as albums, and at least half of the 200,000 songs available at the store were purchased at least once." [MacMegasite]