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A Lifetime of Music Will Cost you $37,000
Food for thought - a lifetime of music will set the average person back $37,000. Are you above average?
Apple Shares Down 4.2 Percent on Nasdaq (AP)
AP - Apple Computer Inc.'s record-breaking first quarter easily topped Wall Street targets, but a soft forecast amid high expectations disappointed investors. Apple shares slid $3.46, or 4.2 percent, to close at $79.04 Thursday on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
Q-Be - World's Tiniest MP3 Player
The Q-Be measures just 2.4 cubic centimetres square, and weighs 18 grams.
Gemini Announces iTrax iPod DJ Mixer
The iTrax joins the Numark iDJ, to allow users to mix the output of two iPods, with basic dj functionality.
Digital music sales triple to $1.1 bln in 2005 (Reuters)
Reuters - Worldwide digital music sales surged
threefold to $1.1 billion in 2005, the industry trade body said
on Thursday, as consumers flocked to buy music for their
computers, iPods and mobile phones.
MP3 Tech Commentary
Creative goes after iPod with Zen Vision:M
Creative Technology today took another step forward in trying to dethrone Apple as king of the portable entertainment world with the unveiling of the Zen Vision:M. This portable media player comes in black, white, blue green or pink and should...
Play any USB-compatible player in your car
NextPower USA has just released the VR3 FM Modulator, a device designed to play any USB-device with music on it on your car stereo. The VR3 FM Modulator works like any other FM transmitter at first glance - just...
Record digital music downloads
Reuters is reporting that, according to Nielsen SoundScan, legitimate download purchases enjoyed an unprecedented boom the week following Christmas. In the seven-day stretch between Christmas and the new year, millions of consumers armed with new MP3 players (primarily iPods) and...
Satellite iPod: Texas Instruments provides the missing-link?
Texas Instruments has announced a chip and reference design that makes it extremely simple to integrate XM's latest Connect-and-Play technology (ie, the XM Passport ) into a hard-drive based player MP3 player. ... Or, maybe more specifically... a dock for any, that's right ANY, digital audio (iPod? ... OEMs just need to pay a one-time license fee of $20k plus the price of the chip, and instantly they can make an XM-Ready dock for their digital audio player that will interface with the XM Passport. ... Manufacturers now can even build XM ...
ZENcast!
In another inexplicably stupid move, Creative has launched ZENcast , apparently a podcasting directory for their Zen players. ... If the name wasn t enough of the clue, maybe this quote from the About page will clarify the lack of talent of their marketing department: Podcasts, short for P ersonal O n D emand broad Cast , are audio files you can download into any MP3 player or computer. ... Except, of course, for Wikipedia: is a portmanteau that combines two words: and [W]hat makes this so delicious for Apple is that the more popular ...
amazon.com: sandisk 1 gb mp3 player silver: electronics
... Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. ... I was considering buying an mp3 player, this would be the first one, and I did a lot of research. ... Unlike the sony player, this player will play MP3's any way you have them on your PC, this means VBR mp3's too. ... Main good points: -replacable battery -VBR mp3's -Shuffle and Repeat -ID3 tag use, or path display -No software to install -can store any media on the drive like a flash drive -easy to use -Left or Right hand use -Nice display I bought this player a ...
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