-- about the length and width of a business card, weighing 3.6 ounces and holding 1,000 songs -- is Apple's answer to cheaper but lower-capacity flash-memory-based digital music players. Apple's iPod mini costs $249. Capacity for the iPod mini is 4 gigabytes.
WebFountainYahoo! News:
Monster librarian at workIn the basement of IBM's Almaden Research Center in the hills of South San Jose, hundreds of computer servers gather 250 million new Web pages a week. The data -- 512,000 gigabytes' worth -- is at the disposal of a new analytical software tool called WebFountain.
Four years in the making, WebFountain is the ultimate way to figure out what everybody is saying about something. WebFountain scours Web logs, chat rooms, newspaper stories and every other source of information to determine whether the chatter about a new product is good or bad; is a certain rock group on the way up or a one-hit wonder?
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