Speculation is high regarding announcements due to be made in the next week regarding new digital music products from both Apple and Microsoft.
As previously reported, Apple are due to launch new music related products tomorrow at an invite-only press event at their Californian headquarters. There has been no official word on what will be launched, though ThinkSecret, a website that has a good record at predicting what Apple will launch next, reckons it might include an iPod boombox. Others expect a more advanced version of the iPod Video to be revealed.
Meanwhile there is some excitement regarding a new Microsoft project, the so called 'Origami Project', which is due to launch on 2 Mar. A pre-launch website reveals very little about the new venture, except to imply it will be big. Some are speculating that this will be Microsoft's much rumoured move into the digital music player space with an iPod type device that will aim to increase the share of the market using Microsoft's WMA file format rather than Apple's proprietary AAC code.