An article in the New York Post states that Apple and Amazon have been in discussions over using Apple's technology as the basis for Amazon's proposed new music service.

This article from MacCentral reports that Apple used their own software and hardware to power the iTunes Music Store. This isn't a huge surprise, but I find it a little odd that they didn't mention it at the initial roll-out. Apparently the back-end is all Apple hardware and WebObjects 5 …

An article in Wired this morning talks about Apple's seemingly surprising ability to stay afloat, innovative, and mostly profitable while the world is mostly Microsoft. He credits a number of factors, including the Clinton justice department, control of the hardware, and the now-tight links to the open-source Unix movement. I …

All major media outlets are reporting today that Microsoft and AOL have settled the anti-trust suit filed against Microsoft by AOL claiming that the company pushed Netscape out of the market through uncompetitive means. The result was a $750M payment to AOL, an agreement between the two companies to cooperate …

An article on ThinkSecret reports that developers' feelings toward Apple's developer relations group have been improving in recent months. Word is that the group is more accessible, more responsive to inquiries, and seems to have added evangelists, not only to get the word out on Apple technologies, but to …

Just when you thought it was safe to consider Apple's Apple Music service to be passe and uninteresting (based on the articles I've referenced from CNET), comes along this article from the New York Times, wherein the author thinks that Apple may be the first company to really have …

According to an article on Consumer Reports, Apple is a clear #1 in service of the rated computer manufacturers (including Dell, HP, IBM, Compaq, Gateway and Micron). The company's leads both in terms of system reliability and satisfaction with the various support channels. In each of the channels, Apple had …

An excellent, but lengthy article on CNET provides some food for thought on Apple's Apple Music service, Microsoft's future in the area, some of the sour grapes by the "we were here first but nobody talks about us" crowd, and provides an interesting chart on who the author …

From the "a few abusers ruin it for us all" files, Apple has released 4.0.1 of iTunes that "fixes" internet file sharing. Too much press about people using the internet sharing to share files with people they don't know has caused Apple to remove the feature in 4 …

I just finished listening to The Crisis of Islam (ISBN: 0679642811) by Bernard Lewis and I found it to be a fascinating "read". Much of the book goes through the history of Islam and touches on a number of important differences between Islam and Christianity as well as Islam and …

I'm not so much interested by the music as I am by the way that the catalog has been done, but Pearl Jam is now offering a huge number of "albums" (75), many that are actually concert recordings, by date, of their 2000 tour. Each individual song is available for …

An article on CNET reports that Microsoft is preparing to enhance their existing DRM capabilities in Windows Media Player in order to compete better against Apple's new service. The enhancements will allow restricted-rights tunes to be downloaded to music players compatible with Microsoft's DRM capabilities (in other words, the industry-leading …

In a story that may redeem some of the people who have made fun of the "Star Wars boy", a story from the Ottawa Citizen (at Canada.com) reports that the campaign to get the kid an Apple iPod for his trouble has turned into a booty of over $4000 …

OK, this is a total fluff story, but The O List now contains the 15GB iPod.

Film industry users of Apple's Keynote presentation product will be happy to see that Keynote Pro has released a new theme just for them. Pitchboards is designed to provide users with all they need to present a movie, TV, or video idea.

CNET reports that Norwegian software company Opera has returned to the Mac with a new version of their browser. But, will it compete with Apple's Safari?

If you have more than one Macintosh or are just getting a bit stingy on disk space (seeing as you have 20-30GB of iPod tunes), you may be wondering how you can play back songs on your iPod while it is connected to your Macintosh. Here are the helpful hints …

Although the Belkin site says that the Auto Kit for iPod with Dock Connector is "Coming Soon!", I can assure you that both the local Tysons Corner Apple Store and Apple's online store have the product in stock. Why is this of interest? Because, it contains not only a …

I got my new slimmer, fatter iPod yesterday and so far, so good. I'll put up more comments as I have time to test various features. However, it struck me that there sure are a lot of pins on that connector at the bottom. What are they all for? Pins …

An article in Rolling Stone brings up some interesting points about the Apple's new music service. Among them: at the current rate of sales, more money is made at retail selling Vinyl records than Apple will give to the music companies (although the stats are interesting, because I can't …