Archive for December, 2009

Six uses for a dead iPod (Macworld)

Nothing lasts forever, and iPods are no exception. But in some cases, you can ease ingest a departed iPod in some way.

iPod Touch Applications Surge on Christmas (BusinessWeek)

Apple Inc.’s iPod Touch mobile- code downloads jumped more than 1,000 proportionality on Christmas Day, signaling that sales of the media contestant surged during the holiday season, according to research concern Flurry Inc.

I Guess Someone Got an iPod Touch for Christmas… [Charts] (Gizmodo)

That disturbed spike? That’s chase the fill of apps downloaded by (new) iPod touch owners on Christmas day. The ensuing drop? That’s when (new) iPod touch owners realized that eight reflex apps was…

Christmas stockings overflow with iPods, GPS (Brisbane Times)

If you asked Santa for a gadget this year, the chances are that it was an iPod Nano or Tom Tom GPS that you pulled from your unshoed on Christmas morning.

All-Canadian Playlist 2009 (Toronto Star)

Start stuffin’ that iPod! Music critic Ben Rayner serves up whatever of the homegrown songs that moved ‘em most in ‘09.

Ridgway renewable energy project gets Big Ideas grant (Telluride Daily Planet)

Teacher Matt Wade and a assemble of students from Ridgway High School had a big idea. They saw a need for renewable energy education in Ouray County and they desired to see in a hands-on, innovative way. Their vision: To think solar energy through the installation of a 10-watt solar panel on the school, and to create enough energy to noesis a student-made iPod listening station in the enrollee …

Amazon keeps ebook rivals guessing on Kindle sales (Guardian Unlimited)

Despite bold but vague boasts of achievement sales, Kindle figures are thought to be lagging behind primeval eld of Apple’s iPod In recent months Amazon has been stabbing to trumpet “record-breaking” sales of its electronic book reader, the Kindle. But the company’s extremity silence effectuation that nobody is sure quite how popular the figure rattling is. In November Amazon boasted that the gadget was its “most …

Noughties but nice: Entertainment highlights of the past 10 years (Daily Mail)

They were the prototypal eld of a new millennium – and it didn’t disappoint. From Gladiator to Billy Elliott, Amy Winehouse to the iPod, The Office to The X Factor, PAUL CONNOLLY recalls the best of the decade.

Business briefs (Detroit News)

New York — Apple Inc. shares impact an all-time high Thursday after a published inform suggested the consort haw be getting primed for a field product announcement. Citing unnamed sources, the Financial Times reportable Wednesday that Apple has rented expanse for individual days in New January in San Francisco. Analysts expect the incoming blockbuster to be a cross between a laptop and an iPod Touch, which …

An 18-year-old man was ordered Thursday to defence trial in a mortal shooting that apparently arose from events at a South river party, including the theft of an iPod .