Brian
02-27-2006, 10:50 AM
He Helped Build the iPod; Now He Has Built a Rival (http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/9144/He+Helped+Build+the+iPod+Now+He+Has+Built+a+Rival/)
"When Samsung, the consumer electronics giant, decided to mount a serious challenge to Apple Computer's iPod music player early last year, it turned to a little-known Silicon Valley software start-up with a cluttered one-room office tucked away here in a building above a mortgage title company.
The result of that partnership is Samsung's newest Z5 portable MP3 player, which will appear on store shelves March 5. The software inside the player was forged at Iventor Inc. by a small team of programmers led by Paul Mercer, 38, a veteran Apple Macintosh software designer."
Read full story here (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/27/technology/27mercer.html)
"When Samsung, the consumer electronics giant, decided to mount a serious challenge to Apple Computer's iPod music player early last year, it turned to a little-known Silicon Valley software start-up with a cluttered one-room office tucked away here in a building above a mortgage title company.
The result of that partnership is Samsung's newest Z5 portable MP3 player, which will appear on store shelves March 5. The software inside the player was forged at Iventor Inc. by a small team of programmers led by Paul Mercer, 38, a veteran Apple Macintosh software designer."
Read full story here (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/27/technology/27mercer.html)