Maybe you haven’t noticed, but rather quietly, I thought, Microsoft has taken the wraps, such as they were, off its latest “iPod Killer,” the Zune player. You would think, after all these years of struggling to gain some traction in the music download and player marketplace, Microsoft would make a big deal of this event, […]

Macworld Expo 2006 is notable not just for what appeared, but what didn’t. Although iPods were discussed at the beginning of the Steve Jobs keynote, it was largely in the context of how how Apple sold and how much it earned last quarter. Of course if you were lucky enough to get an iPod during […]