HP to start selling its iPod
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Hewlett-Packard said Friday that it would start selling its version of the iPod digital music player next month and would unveil flat-panel televisions, media-enhanced computers and photo printers.
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Hewlett-Packard turned on the music a little early Friday morning, revealing on the Web the details of its new HP-branded Apple iPod music player clone.
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Analyst says model may come out to attract iPod-loving consumers weary of Windows security issues. SAN FRANCISCO  - Apple Computer Inc.
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Apple Inc is expected to unveil  new iPods this week, injecting fresh excitement into the  product line at a time when defections by partners have shown  cracks in its digital music dominance.
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Company is set to sell desktops on CompUSA's shelves, providing more competition for HP.
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Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, using MTV&#39;s Video Music Awards as a backdrop, launched HP&#39;s model of Apple Computer&#39;s popular iPod portable music player during a presentation in Miami Beach on Friday.
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Apple's trendy iPod digital music player, which has revitalized the company, is giving laptop sales a boost during back-to-school season.
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According to the Mercury News, the hot selling Apple iPod has been in very short supply this holiday season as sales take off. &quot;The colorful 4-gigabyte iPod mini and the 20-gigabyte iPod are sold out at Amazon.
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Elevated by cash, iPod guru and former Apple CFO Struggling to regain its edge in the smartphone market, Palm has reached an agreement to sell a quarter of the company to a private equity firm and to place a former iPod guru in an executive seat.â¦
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - The next wave of iPod competitors is  coming.
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Surge comes ahead of HP&#39;s version of iPod and the new iMac; Apple shares up 62% for the year. SAN FRANCISCO  - Shares of Apple Computer Inc.
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SAN FRANCISCO  - Shares of Apple Computer Inc.  rose to an almost four-year high on Thursday ahead of the launch of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s  version of the iPod digital music player and Apple's revamped iMac computer.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N on  Friday said it will fold its barely profitable PC business into  its successful printer and imaging business, chilling  speculation the computer company could spin off the printer  unit.
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Japanese electronics maker Hitachi said Friday it will sell business personal computers made by Hewlett-Packard Co. under the Hitachi brand in Japan.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft Corp. has predicted it will sell 1 million Zune devices in its first six months, a figure that would be more than Zune's chief rival iPod sold in its first 14 months but a relatively slow start for the much-hyped MP3 device. SinceÂ its retail debut on Nov. 15, customer interest in Zune has been lackluster, analysts report, and the company's projections for sales of the device are conservative. By contrast, Apple Computer Inc. will likely sell about 25 million iPods over the same period according to financial analysts, though the company only sold 600,000 iPods in the first 14 months of availability. Mike McGuire, a Gartner Inc. research vice president, said he was surprised Microsoft is expecting to sell so few Zunes in the first six months, given that the market for iPod and MP3 devices is thriving. On the other hand, "it's a decent objective," he said. "I was expecting a more aggressive goal," McGuire said. "But even though it's conservative it's going to be tough [to make that goal]." McGuire cited the fact that Microsoft is only offering one version of the device and the rapid nature of the media-player market, which is moving forward with new, cutting-edge devices all the time, as challenges for the vendor. Microsoft's achievements with Zune will depend on how successfully it builds a community around the product with its Zune Marketplace software and online store, as well as how quickly it can upgrade the initial Zune device with new features and models, McGuire said. Zune is in a distinctly different position than iPod was at its launch. IPods could only be used with Apple's Macintosh computers, which have a significantly smaller market share of the desktop computer market than Windows machines, the platform for Zune. In October 2001, when iPod was released, Apple PC market share was about 2.4 percent. And iPod was an unproved device, one of the first of its kind in a market that Apple ostensibly created, whereas Zune has the benefit of entering a thriving market. Of course, iTunes software for iPods now runs on millions of Windows PCs in addition to Macs. To date, Apple has sold more than 67 million iPods, and should sell about 82 million by the end of the year. The company has several versions of the iPod -- the video iPod, the iPod nano and the iPod shuffle -- in various sizes and colors. There are also an extensive array of accessories available for iPods. Microsoft's 30G-byte Zune costs US$249.99, the same price as the video iPod, but it's different from the iPod in two key ways. Zune includes an FM tuner and wireless capability that allows users to share songs between devices.
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Friday, HP introduced their branded iPod, along with customizable skins called HP Printable Tattoos for iPod. Originally announced in January, HP's version, labeled Apple iPod from HP, has identical specs and design as the Apple version, unlike the blue-colored version shown in January.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Hewlett-Packard is preparing its first laptop with flash memory chips in another sign of the market's gradual migration away from the use of hard drives to store data and software.