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Tuesday is typically a busier day for Appleis music interests, and today is no exception. It launched a give-away promotion as a part of the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) countdown to selling 1 billion songs, the 1GB iPod nano was introduced, the iPod shuffleis price was lowered, and Showtime announced that it joined the iTMS.…

Mr. Dunn wrote that during a Monday news conference, IBM and Freescale executives said that their companies will be able to free up resources previously put toward developing the PowerPC as a PC processor. That will enable them to concentrate on “segments … where both the volume and innovation are more significant [than Apple],” according…

In an FAQ that lists Adobeis plans, the company stated that is is committed to supporting Intel-based Macs with most of its existing Mac products, and that it is transitioning its code development to Appleis Xcode so that it can build UB compliant applications. Adobeis document states “Adobe does not plan to re-release current products…

covered this on Thursday, but todayis coverage includes a Spin that looks at what Microsoft might be missing.] Microsoft is contemplating making its own digital media device to directly compete with Appleis iPod, according to a report from BusinessWeek. Writing for the magazine, Jay Greene reported that the company is considering its own device as…

The strategy game lets players manage every aspect of a zoo, including animal exhibits, concessions, employees, and more. You can explore the zoo as a zoo keeper, or a park guest in 3D, and a bonus DVD with features from National Geographicis “Totally Wild” series is also included. Zoo Tycoon 2 is priced at US$39.99.

Despite the fact that Apple has been fairly low key about iWork over the past year, it still came in with 17.4 percent of the Mac market, compared to Office for the Macis 82 percent. Microsoft, however, does have the upper hand in this battle, since Office is available for both Mac and Windows platforms,…

Pixar president Ed Catmull will be the president of the newly formed Pixar and Disney animation studios, and creative mastermind John Lasseter will be the Chief Creative Officer of the animation studios. "Disney and Pixar can now collaborate without the barriers that come from two different companies with two different sets of shareholders," said Steve…

From the bandis Web site: It has recently come to our attention that Apple Computersi new television commercial for the Intel chip features a shot-for-shot recreation of our video for iSuch Great Heightsi made by the same filmmakers responsible for the original. We did not approve this commercialization and are extremely disappointed with both parties…

Stream-Live should be shipping by January 23, and is priced at US$395.

Citigroup also stated that it does not see any near-term positive or negative catalysts, and feels that Appleis guidance may be conservative. The lower earnings estimate is based on the potential that Apple will not be able to meet consumer demand for the soon to be released Intel-based MacBook Pro. After its debut at Macworld…

“If Dell wanted to offer one of their boxes running Mac software they could of course just buy the packaged OS. However, if they wanted to purchase OS X on an OEM basis and were turned down, Brookwood believes this could be grounds for the suit.” Mr. Schwartz added that the suit could claim that…