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Griffin Intros PowerBlock Travel, International USB Power Adapter
Griffin Technology has introduced PowerBlock Travel, a package designed to simplify charging your USB devices (including iPods) while traveling.
UK Royalty Society Suggests ISPs Pay for Pirated Music
(PC World)
PC World - A U.K. music royalty collection society has suggested charging ISPs for pirated content traded on their networks, as the organization claims piracy will worsen with faster broadband speeds.
SanDisk and Toshiba Sign New Flash Factory Agreement
(PC World)
PC World - Toshiba and SanDisk announced on Wednesday a new joint venture agreement for an advanced NAND flash memory chip factory in Yokkaichi, Japan, meant to keep ahead of burgeoning demand for the NAND flash chips to store songs, photos and other digital data.
Hands On: MyFord's Touch Makes Sync Better
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - The second generation of Ford Sync represents a big step for what is already the industry's most comprehensive, affordable Bluetooth and music player system.
The Eight Thousand Dollar Piano-Shaped ipod Table
The Concerto Table, a piano-shaped table designed by Nicholas Lovegrove & Demian Repucci, has to be one of the most expensive and exclusive iPod accessories yet.
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Free Music Album Download: Holy Hail - The Dying Party EP In our free music spotlight this week, we're focusing on the New York based experimental/hip hop band, Holy Hail. Following on from their debut album, Independent Pleasure Club, they are generously offering up a complete free music album to download. To grab your digital copy of The Dying Party EP, go to Holy Hail's official website.
Study: Kindle Can't Replace Textbooks Quite Yet One would think young (well, mostly young) college students would be hip to new devices such as eReaders. But a new study that used Amazon's Kindle finds that while 90 percent of students liked the device for personal reading, up to 80 percent said they would not recommend it for studying. No word on whether those 80 percent told the folks who did the study to get off their lawns.
HMV Canada Launches Digital Music Store HMV Canada has now officially launched its answer to Apple's iTunes Store. Until now, the company had been trialling the service as a Beta model for the past seven months with the help of customers. The President of HMV Canada, Humphrey Kadaner, said, "As expectations for an hmv digital offering were high, we wanted to allow ourselves time to enhance the service by evaluating consumer interest and wants. This was all in preparation for the development of a digital service that would exceed customer expectations. Thanks to the extensive testing and consumer feedback we've received to date, we are confident that hmvdigital.ca is a digital offering that will impress consumers and, ultimately, bring them closer to the music they love."
New Study Analyzes Consumers' Digital Music Listening Habits According to an article by MusicWeek, a new report by Forrester Research has found that the way consumers use digital music is still a very fragmented affair. The new study entitled, 360-Degree Music Experiences: Use The Cloud To Target Device-Use Orbits, has shown in particular that the majority of digital music listeners are still shackled to their computer due to "limitations of available technology". The study found that the majority of consumers (35.9%) mainly listen to MP3s and physical CDs on their computer (PC).
Acer Wades into Android Tablet Mix As Acer steadily works toward its goal of catching up to Hewlett-Packard in PC market share (it eclipsed Dell for the No. 2 slot), there's another arena that HP might want to do some behind-the-shoulders peeking regarding its Taiwanese competitor.
Free Music Downloads This Week The free music downloads in our spotlight this week are:-=Basia Bulat=-
Genre: Pop / Folk
Free Music Download: Heart of My Own (3:50)
Album: The above track is taken from Basia Bulat's second album, Heart of My Own, (Rough Trade Records) which is available digitally from the iTunes Store and other top digital music services. For more information, visit Basia's official website.
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