DELL AIMING THE APPLE MARKS

Dell is eager to generate an open setting that will thump iTunes down a few notches. Dell, now having taken over Zing, is aspiring to obtain iTunes on cranium first. With Zing came previous Apple employee Tim Bucher, who has assembled a team of 120 to generate a system for many dissimilar gadgets - mp3 players, radios, cell phones, and PDAs, to name a few. The arrangement, they expect, will sketch in all the chief players in the marketplace and present an unfasten space where users can be gratis with the substance they purchase. The software is anticipated to initiate by the end of the year, while the 1st players won't come around until some time the preceding year.