Huge demand for its iPod portable digital music players helped Apple Computer triple its second-quarter earnings and easily beat Wall Street expectations. The company reported record sales of 807 000 iPods for the quarter, up more than 900% from the prior year.
Apple Computer is investigating complaints that its popular iPod mini is prone to static and other sound distortions when playing back music. The diminutive music players sometimes generate the noise when users touch areas around the headphone jack, according to a handful of reports posted at iPodlounge.com and Apple’s own discussion forums.
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/ 2 February 2004
Intel is launching the next generation of its flagship Pentium 4 microprocessor on Monday, adding more memory to the chip and other features that should allow it to reach record speeds of up to 4 gigahertz by the end of the year.
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/ 28 January 2004
An e-mail worm that looks like a normal error message but actually contains a malicious program continued to snarl computers around the world on Tuesday. MessageLabs, which scans e-mail for viruses, said 1 in every 12 messages contained the worm, called Mydoom or Novarg.
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/ 26 December 2003
An infant was killed by falling debris and dozens of people were injured when a strong earthquake shook the border of Costa Rica and Panama early on Thursday, Panama’s federal relief agency reported. The magnitude-6,3 tremor struck at 2.11am local time at a depth of 33,6km.
Hewlett-Packard is introducing more than 100 new consumer gadgets on Monday, from digital cameras to photo-quality desktop printers, in anticipation of what could be a grinch-like holiday shopping season.
The leading supplier of the computer servers that fuelled the dot-com boom, Sun Microsystems Inc. has fallen victim to the commoditisation of the computers that do corporate America’s heavy lifting.
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/ 13 February 2003
Intel Corp. planned to introduce a microchip on Thursday that supercharges the power of cell phones to access the Internet, display digital photos, play music and perform other complicated tasks.
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/ 24 January 2003
Technology companies and advocacy groups announced a new lobbying organisation on Thursday to counter Hollywood in the battle over access to digital music, movies and books.