New and Noteworthy: iPod the star of recent music videos; Prime time G5 sighting; more

iPod the star of recent music videos Girls? Check. Cristal? Check. iPod? Check. The New York Times reports "For the first 30 seconds of his recent video "Pimp," the rapper 50 Cent lovingly caresses an iPod portable digital music player as three scantily clad women lovingly caress him. The rapper and the women are dressed all in white, a perfect match for the sleek white design of the iPod, which has exactly as many close-ups as 50 Cent does in the video's opening scenes." More.

Prime time G5 sighting MacFixIt reader Peter Hillman writes "Saw a preview for the third season of "24" on FOX tonight. Kiefer Sutherland was using a PowerBook G4 17" on his desk, but behind him was the Power Mac G5 looking lean and mean in his office. Their office was previously equipped with Graphite G4's, QuickSilver G4's, and G4 Cubes. The third season starts the end of October."

'Amnesty' for song swappers? USA Today reports "Even as the Recording Industry Association of America is cracking down on file swappers, it also is willing to offer 'amnesty.'" In exchange for wiping unauthorized song services and the tunes off the hard drive, and noting such in a notarized letter, the RIAA will agree not to file civil suits. But, if the person is discovered trading songs in the future, the association could come back with criminal charges, which carry even heftier fines. More.

Jot Down an Address In Garmin's iQue PDA And It Shows the Way Walt Mossberg, writing for the Wall Street Journal, reports "And now, for the first time, there's a PDA that can determine its location anywhere on earth by communicating with satellites, display detailed color maps of that location and show a route to a destination of your choice. This latest twist on the PDA is a US$589 model called the iQue 3600. It comes from Garmin, a Kansas-based leader in the market for specialized location-finding devices that rely on the Pentagon's network of Global Positioning System satellites, or GPS for short." More.

Microsoft settles with Be Microsoft Corp. agreed Friday to pay $23.3 million to Be Inc. to settle an antitrust lawsuit that claimed the software giant negotiated deals with computer makers that cut out the smaller company's competing operating system. Microsoft admits no wrongdoing under the settlement. The company did not disclose further details. More.

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