Apple music player dominance set for years - analyst

Apple's dominance of the portable music player market is likely to continue for years according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. In a note to investors, Munster says that the iPod's huge market share gives Apple cost savings that its rivals simply cannot match. Apple's 30GB iPod, for example, is nine per cent cheaper per gigabyte than Creative's new Zen Vision:M. ...more

Google blanks CNet for Googling

Google is refusing to speak to journalists from CNet after the US news website published personal information about Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Ironically, the information was not gleaned by any underhand methods but by searching the Internet, using Google. However Google has decided to ignore the website's reporters for a year. ...more

Dell beats Apple in Adobe speed tests

A Dell PC has soundly beaten a Power Mac in a series of speed tests of Adobe applications. The tests were carried out by Digital Producer Magazine, but the results have been reproduced by Adobe on a Web page entitled, ominously, as 'pcpreferred'. Digital Producer Magazine compared a single-processor Dell 2. ...more

Borland's new model of Togetherness boosts .Net development

'Bringing affordable modelling to the masses' is Borland's claim for its new programming support tool, Together Edition for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET v2.0. ...more

UPDATED: Apple tops a billion iTunes downloads

Apple has set a new bar for digital music sales, selling over one billion songs since the first iTunes Music Store opened in April 2003. The milestone was passed last night, and the lucky person who picked the billionth song will receive a 20in iMac, 10 60GB iPods and a $10,000 iTunes Music Store voucher to fill them with. The billionth song was Speed of Sound, purchased as part of Coldplay's X&Y album by Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Michigan, USA. ...more