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Want to listen to your favorite talk radio at your leisure, and not according to a schedule set by some programming director? Apparently, a lot of people do. Search engine requests for Podcasts -- Internet broadcasts, created for downloading on Apple iPod audio players -- have soared 1,052 percent during the last three months, according to Lycos. By Gene Koprowski

ITunes Customer Wants A Bite Of AppleChris Crum | Staff Writer | 2005-01-06 http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050106iTunesCustomerWantsaBiteofApple.html Thomas Slattery of California has filed a lawsuit against Apple claiming that it is not fair that he has to use an iPod to listen to iTunes songs. According to the lawsuit, "Apple has turned an open and interactive standard into an artifice that prevents consumers from using the portable hard drive digital music player of their choice." A BBC News article claims that, "Mr. Slattery called himself an iTunes customer who ‘was also forced to purchase an Apple iPod' if he wanted to take his...