iPod in the news

Unleash the music
Bob Pegoraro's article 5 Ways to Unleash the Music in the Washington Post has five suggestions that will make buying songs online better.

Creative stumbles, fumbles
Creative's earnings slumped 72% compared in the same period a year ago report says. This was supposed to have been due to lower income from investments and price cutting of their digital music players in order to compete with Apple's iPod. Another article about this is in MacDailyNews and Yahoo! Finance.

The Cult of iPod
The cult of the iPod is growing. The word has spread and the temple of the faithful are those iconic Apple Stores where young men and women welcome visitors with shiny white and silver boxes in their hands. But this cult is only a part of the larger Cult of Mac.

BBC says that Italian philosopher Umberto Eco likened the Macintosh as Catholic and Microsoft PCs as protestant.

This report was found in MacWorld.

And it keeps on playing
Much to the chagrin of music executives. In 2002, when Jobs approached music moguls with the proposal of selling music online thru iTMS they hailed him as a trailblazer in the digital music industry. Two years and 350 million downloads after, the music executives are afraid that they have lost control of their music. Their main beef? Money. More precisely their inability to control the prices of the music being sold in iTMS. CNet reports.