{"id":2021,"date":"2009-01-16T12:29:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T20:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2009-01-16T12:29:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T20:29:48","slug":"recap-steve-jobs-circuit-city-songsmith-and-palm-pre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2009\/01\/16\/recap-steve-jobs-circuit-city-songsmith-and-palm-pre\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap: Steve Jobs, Circuit City, Songsmith, and Palm Pre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of news items that I have not writte about yet for the past 7 days. It&#8217;s time for me to catch up with them.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2009\/01\/14advisory.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Jobs is going on a medical leave of absence<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>January 14th, 2009<br \/>\nApple CEO Steve Jobs today sent the following email to all Apple employees:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.circuitcity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Circuit City<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.circuitcity.com\/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=359619\" target=\"_blank\">going out of business<\/a> after <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.circuitcity.com\/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=358471\" target=\"_blank\">filing Chapter 11<\/a>. Download the PDF&#8217;s below:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"docList\" href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.circuitcity.com\/common\/download\/download.cfm?companyid=CC&amp;fileid=264590&amp;filekey=DDB900EC-465E-48C8-9749-884151AD36E3&amp;filename=011609_CC_Liquidation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Liquidation Press Release  1\/16\/09<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"docList\" href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.circuitcity.com\/common\/download\/download.cfm?companyid=CC&amp;fileid=264592&amp;filekey=26243352-FB3D-4712-9C35-263BFCA04C76&amp;filename=Store_List_Liquidation_011609.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Store Closing List 1\/16\/09<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"docList\" href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.circuitcity.com\/common\/download\/download.cfm?companyid=CC&amp;fileid=264593&amp;filekey=65777E4E-3103-4D1A-B2FB-17D3D2702714&amp;filename=Media_and_Customer_FAQ_1.16.09_for_posting.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Media and Customer FAQ<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.circuitcity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2022\" title=\"circuitcity_stock_20080116\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/circuitcity_stock_20080116.png\" alt=\"circuitcity_stock_20080116\" width=\"253\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/circuitcity_stock_20080116.png 253w, https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/circuitcity_stock_20080116-117x96.png 117w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/um\/redmond\/projects\/songsmith\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Songsmith<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macnn.com\/articles\/09\/01\/16\/mb.pro.in.microsoft.ad\/\" target=\"_blank\">the ad features MacBook Pro<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Songsmith is for Windows OS only, Mac users can cry in the corner; or will they?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/um\/redmond\/projects\/songsmith\/download.html\" target=\"_blank\">Download Songsmith here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is so great that <a href=\"http:\/\/music.metafilter.com\/2943\/Runnin-With-The-Songsmith\" target=\"_blank\">it produced music to accompany David Lee Roth<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.palm.com\/us\/products\/phones\/pre\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Palm Pre<\/a>, the would be savior of Palm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Palm is back with a new OS and new SmartPhone in the form of Palm Pre. It looks promising so far, and some anti-Apple movement crowd are hoping that Palm Pre would be the iPhone killer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of news items that I have not writte about yet for the past 7 days. It&#8217;s time for me to catch up with them. Steve Jobs is going on a medical leave of absence. January 14th, 2009 Apple CEO Steve Jobs today sent the following email to all Apple employees: &#8230;&#8230;. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2009\/01\/16\/recap-steve-jobs-circuit-city-songsmith-and-palm-pre\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Recap: Steve Jobs, Circuit City, Songsmith, and Palm Pre&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4],"tags":[403,404,1030,1594,1938,2009,934,942,2511,936,3131,3216],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-applications","tag-apps","tag-entertainment","tag-iphone","tag-macbook","tag-media","tag-microsoft","tag-music","tag-resources","tag-tech","tag-vista","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-wB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}