Monday, January 24, 2005

Apple ITunes Sells 250 Million Songs Now selling at a rate of more than a million downloads per day, Apple Computer Inc. said Monday customers have purchased a total more than 250 million songs from its online iTunes Music Store. 8:43:08 PM

Clear Channel Changing Its Tune. Will HD radio be enough to keep listeners tuned in? 8:41:38 PM

64 Bit Windows in April?. Rumor: RTM sometime in March. Citing "sources", the Inquirer claims that Microsoft intends to put the 64 bit version of Windows XP on sale April 29. According to the site, the version will be RTM'd (released to manufacturing) in March 8:39:52 PM

50% of homes to have fiber by 2010  Bookmark this prediction for future reference: the latest BroadbandAction report by Pike & Fischer's Communications Media Analysis Group predicts 50% of US homes will have "fiber deep" (fiber to the home, or to the curb) connections by 2010. 8:38:11 PM

Auntie (BBC)  re-launches her Internet Radio Player, which should be fully operational tomorrow. It looks as though it will feature some truly user-friendly facilities. The numbers: it will feature 500 extra hours of programming and over 80 more programmes,and they've read over 30,000 e-mails to find out what people want. 8:36:35 PM

College DJ Breaks Record For World's Longest Continuous Broadcast. The Associated Press reports: "Dave Plotkin...[a] disc jockey at Rollins College's WPRK-FM unofficially set a record Friday for the world's longest continuous broadcast by a single DJ." 5:25:56 AM

GPS Digital Camera Knows Where Pictures Were Taken. A new digital camera from Ricoh has a built-in GPS feature and encodes each photo with information on where in the world it was taken. Special software can then automatically use that information to enable, for example, special travel-photo blogs that bring up photos when you click on locations on a map. 5:25:14 AM

Industry Aims to Deliver Music Everywhere  In the music business, it's a vision that may soon be consigned to history: Grandpa slumping into the recliner, closing his eyes and enjoying a favorite rendition of an operatic solo. For music lovers these days, the sedentary lifestyle is out. 5:19:31 AM

Sirius Enlists Record Executive for Its Satellites. Sirius has struck an exclusive pact to sign Jimmy Iovine, chairman of Interscope Records, as a consultant and adviser in the development of programming and marketing arrangements. 5:18:32 AM

Texas Instruments Integrates Cellphone Tasks on One Chip. Texas Instruments is set to announce that it has integrated most computing functions of a mobile phone onto a single microchip. 5:18:00 AM

In Suit, BlackBerry Maker Pleads Canadian. Having lost a recent patent case in Virginia, Research in Motion, maker of the popular BlackBerry device, has turned to an unusual appeal strategy: We’re not based in the United States, so you can’t touch us. 5:15:54 AM

FCC Faces a New Set of Challenges After Powell. The departure of Michael K. Powell from the Federal Communications Commission in a few weeks will lead to profound and subtle policy and personality changes for the agency. 5:15:06 AM

Scrambling For a Slice Of Internet Phone Pie  Investors showed little interest when Richard M. Tworek started setting up Internet-based phone systems for businesses two years ago. 5:14:32 AM

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