I don't have mine yet, but from this link on iPoding, there are recording features built in to the newest Pod. Bonus!

CNet reports that analysts believe that the transition to Windows 2003 server from NT and 2000 may take quite a while. The Gartner Group, an IT research firm, projects that around 60-70% of all Windows servers are still running Windows NT, the predecessor of Windows 2000, the progenitor of the …

In a move intended to push a pet project of O'Reilly, the company has announced that they will adopt the Founder's Copyright, a voluntary program by which authors give up whatever remaining rights exist after the 28-year term originally granted by US law at the time of the founding of …

Got an iPod? Lusting after a new one? MacCentral reports that PowerMax is offering a trade-in program for existing iPod users who want to upgrade.

An article on MobileMag.com gives a snapshot of a new phone from Samsung to be released later this year for use on GSM/GPRS networks. Not a lot of details, but it looks very cool.

For the programmers out there who care about such things, an article on MacOS X Hints shows how to watch an application's Apple Event stream from the console. % setenv AEDebug 1 % setenv AEDebugSend 1 % setenv AEDebugReceives 1 and then open the application from the command line.

An article in Wired captures some of what the industry is saying about Apple's new service. Here are the highlights: Inside sources claim 200,000 purchases in the first day (close to Billboard's 250,000 in 18 hours claim) If true, that would be half of the annual downloads …

With a growing number of competitive providers with similar features, quality, and coverage the consumer is starting to see the benefits of competition in the cellular telephone space. Wired has an article describing some tactics that have succeeded for negotiating with your current provider to get better rates and features …

An article on Space Today confirms that the Hubble is back in business after shutting down yesterday due to a gyro failure. Upon failure, the telescope went in to "safe mode" while scientists and engineers attempted to revive the gyro. Unable to do that, they activated one of the two …

Looking for that technological excuse to drag your old Lionel out of mothballs? Locopalm has a Palm-based controller for your model railroad.

I had the sincere pleasure of attending my first (but definitely not my last) John McCutcheon concert last night at Wolf Trap's Barns of Wolf Trap venue. It turns out that it was also my first time at the Barns, which didn't disappoint either. Holding about 345 people, it …

CNet has an article online about a meeting of bulk mailers and email abuse advocates with the FTC to discuss anti-spam techniques. The article spends most of its time (and apparently the discussion spent much of its time) discussing the legal basis for blacklists (lists of IP addresses on the …

According to an article in the UK's Digit magazine, the European Commission is set to levy fines of up to $3B on Microsoft if a settlement is not reached on anti-trust claims by the pan- European organization.

According to an article on MacCentral, a service called File-Cash is going to debut on June 1 that will use P-2-P technology to sell legitimate copies of music from 100 indy record companies to end users. The system supposedly makes use of encrypted Digital Rights Management technology to ensure appropriate …

A good article in Forbes this week summarizes the current state of Hollywood's war against your privacy in the state and local jurisdictions. For those who have not read previous articles on this subject, the industry associations are trying to tighten the DMCA provisions by removing the loophole procedure that …

An article on Billboard Magazine's site states that Apple sold 275,000 tracks in the first 18 hours of operation of its new music service. Based on the Forbes article last week, Apple is supposedly making about 35 cents per track. It's not going to make them the biggest …

The Boston Globe has an interesting, and slightly paranoid articleabout the possibility of using high-tech brain scanners to detect "evil thoughts".

The four students that were sued for hundreds of millions by the RIAA, have settled with the industry group for sums between $12,000 and $16,000 each, to be paid in installments over the next 4 years. For many of us who make electronic works (be it music, software …

NOTE: this information is out of date and is left here for historical purposes There is a nice hint discussion on MacOS X Hints that describes the formats and shortcuts for building URLs that link either to songs served from people's shared music or for searches/albums in Apple's service …

OK, given that there are a wide range of opinions about the various music services, I decided to sign up for them and find out what they all look like and are about. My preliminary results are in the table on this site. Feel free to add your comments by …