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    • Joe Williams
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  • Life's Rich Pageant

    • 8 out of 10
    • R.E.M.
    • In the long series of R.E.M.'s evolution, this album (finally?) showcases their ability to capture on tape what had been happening in the live for years: heartfelt, sweat-filled performances that just
  • Another Day on Earth

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    • Brian Eno
    • In his first proper solo release since 1996's relatively cold "The Drop," Brian Eno has constructed a whimsical and ecclectic masterpiece which is arguably one of the year's strongest records thus fa
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    • The Asylum Street Spankers are...well...The Spankers. Hailing from Austin, where I saw them live dozens of times, the band played entirely acousti

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    • Another pillar of my musical foundations, The Stooges' first album is one those records whose influence far outweighed its popularity. Like The Velvet Underground & Nico, hordes of people wh

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One-inch HDD Market ‘To Take Serious Hit in 2006’

Apple's release of the flash-based iPod nano will have repercussions for the one-inch hard disk drive (HDD) market, which now stands to lose sales of about three million units in 2005, according to research firm The Information Network. Michael McManus, writing for DigiTimes, reports that "Apple's strength in the MP3 market will alter the course of the HDD market for 2005 and 2006," according to Information Network president Dr. Robert N. Castellano.

Mr. Castellano also adjusted next year's estimate of one-inch HDD shipments from 37 million units to 19.8 million units, simply because "removing the iPod mini from the market and substituting it with a flash-based iPod nano will effectively eliminate 17.2 million one-inch HDD drives from the market in 2006," he told Mr. McManus.

Of course, Mr. Castellano is assuming a 1:1 replacement of the iPod mini by the nano, and that the lower capacity and higher cost of the new MP3 player will not mean a loss of overall market share for the iPod line. Mr. McManus wrote: "However, Apple's decision to drop the mini was based on its internal analysis, surveys and focus groups, and surveys taken by The Information Network indicate that Apple made the correct move."

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