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Music industry slump accelerated in 2005 (Reuters)
Reuters - It all seemed so promising for the
music business heading into 2005. CD sales were up, albeit ever
so slightly, for the first time in four years. Legitimate
purchases of downloads and ringtones for the first time totaled
in hundreds of millions of dollars. And file traders and
peer-to-peer network operators were on the run from industry
lawsuits. The seeds of recorded-music's recovery from Napster,
it appeared, had been sown at long last.
South Korean farmers doggedly target trade talks (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Lee Ha-young looks more like a middle-age Everyman than the scourge of global capitalism. Back home in South Korea, the soft-spoken 48-year-old struggles to pay his bills while contending with his teenage daughter's demands for an MP3 player and tickets to the latest Harry Potter movie.
MTV, Microsoft team up for digital music service (Reuters)
Reuters - Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks and
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday said they would join forces to
design and develop a new digital music service.
Griffin Announces New iTrip for iPod
The iTrip sports a large, easy to read backlit LCD screen to make setting its digital tuner easy and intuitive.
Griffin Ships iFM iPod Radio Receiver
Griffin Technology is shipping the iFM, an iPod add-on that integrates FM radio tuning, recording and remote control functionality to the iPod.
Survey: Interest in MP3 Players Grows (AP)
AP - Shutterbugs, time to face the music. Portable digital music players are now on par with digital cameras as the most wanted electronics items, a new survey finds.
MP3 Tech Commentary
IMesh: Peer-to-Peer Goes Straight
Peer-to-peer file sharing program iMesh, one of the earliest P2P programs, went legit yesterday. Users of iMesh are now required to pay for the music they download. [IMesh] has built Microsoft Digital Rights Management technology into its software, allowing users...
COWON debuts iAUDIO U3 portable media player
COWON America, a division of Korean multimedia company COWON Systems, earlier this week announced the American availability of their iAUDIO U3 flash memory portable media player. This unit comes in white colored 1GB and black colored 2GB sizes and is...
YES PMP-9 Portable Media Player
... YES recently released their own Portable Media Player (PMP), the PMP-9 model. ... It features a ide 3.6-inch TFT LCD screen, HDTV playback (720p, 1080i) support, MPEG4 video display, MP3 player, TV and voice recorder, and OGG support. ... It comes with 20GB internal hard drive and compact Flash slot for additional storage. ... Large high-resolution 3.6 TFT LCD backlit screen for crisp and clear image Support High-Definition TV Standards (720p 1080i) for maximum video fidelity Watch upto 85 hours of movies, recorded TV programs or home ...
NBC, Apple partner to bring TV shows to iTunes
NBC Universal and Apple today said they would begin making primetime, cable, late-night and classic TV shows available for download through the iTunes store. While targeted primarily towards users of the new iPod with video, the videos can also be...
Video Downloads with iTunes 6 Crosses Million Download Mark
Good news for Apple: Since the announcement of the video iPod and iTunes 6, now with video downloads available for $2 a pop, the iTunes store has sold a million videos in under 20 days, prompting a 5 percent...
iRiver H10 20 GB MP3 Player/Recorder
... Integrated Microsoft Windows Media Player 10 simplifies media management Internal battery gives you about 16 hours of continuous playback between charges Digital music player/recorder with a 1.8-inch, 20 GB hard drive for more than 330 hours of audio (128 kbps) Compatible with MP3/WMA audio files, JPEG image files, and even TXT documents for light reading 1.8-inch full-color TFT LCD supports up to 260,000 colors, rendering your favorite digital photos with breathtaking clarity
ezGear announces iPod friendly portable speaker system
Salt Lake City based ezGear, a marketer of iPod accessories, yesterday announced a new 2.1 speaker system for the iPod family. The new ezSound 2.1 is priced at $109.98 and should be available now. The ezSound 2.1 speaker system is...
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