Word: ipodding
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Turnout for the four-hour event surpassed the predictions of Thrive’s organizers, with many students taking time to stop at every booth and enter raffles to win prizes such as an iPod, a hammock, or an hour-long back massage, as they picked up tips for a more healthful lifestyle...
...guide its efforts, the committee is surveying the Class of 2008 online, allowing participants to enter a drawing for an iPod. Over 400 freshmen have responded to date, McLoughlin said...
Apple, of course, isn't just resting on its market share while everyone else catches up. In February, the company announced price cuts for the iPod mini (to $199 for the 4-GB model) and the iPod photo. Meanwhile, the company that makes the microprocessor brains for the iPod started shipping a new chip last month that consumes less power--meaning that iPod's bugbear, its mediocre battery life, may soon be banished. Advantage, Apple. "There's a gap between understanding what users want and being able to provide it," says Susan Kevorkian, an analyst at market-research firm International...
ENGIBOUS: In engineering, for the first three years, you're studying Maxwell's equations, thermodynamics, calculus--and you haven't got a clue why. What would be much more valuable in freshman year is to teach how an iPod works, how an airplane flies, then work backward...
...mentions is Steve Jobs' best-selling MP3 player. "What is the iPod?" Otellini asks, and his answer sounds strange from the mouth of a man with the well-manicured looks of a successful accountant. "It's my music machine, man. That's what you want. This," and here he gestures to a laptop across the conference room at Intel headquarters, "is my content machine. That [desktop] PC is my productivity machine. You have to start by thinking about the things people want to do with computers and work backward...