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Live Concerts Come to YouTube and Vevo This Summer
(Mashable)
Mashable - VEVO and YouTube have taken another step to establish themselves in the online music space by announcing a partnership with American Express to launch a series of live-streamed concerts, “Unstaged: An Original Series from American Express."
Apple Pumps Down the Volume
Apple today announced a software update for the iPod nano and fifth generation iPod, that lets customers set their own personal maximum volume limit.
Stream music from Google Docs with Cloud Music
(Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - With the advent of the smartphones, streaming media has reached new potential. No longer do you have to worry about whether or not you copied that newest album to your iPod: as long as you’ve got a wireless connection, you can probably use an app to play it back right from your home computer.
SpeckTone Retro Stereo Speaker System for iPod
The SpeckTone Retro is one of the few iPod accessories that has caught our eyes recently. The fifties look of the all-wood speaker cabinet is finished with a high-gloss lacquered piano finish, and is a surprisingly nice complement to the modern look of iPods.
NAMM Update: Numark Announces HDX HD/CD/MP3 player
Numark announced the HDX, a tabletop HD/CD/MP3 player with an high torque, motorized 12-inch platter.
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iPad Engraving on the Way for Holiday Season? Rumors are like raw oysters. Bite into a bad one and get ready to sit down. A lot. But get one that's just right and prepare yourself for silky, sensuous bliss. Which brings us to the latest unconfirmed iPad tidbit circulating around the Internets. Apparently, it involves the arrival of engraving for Apple's new magical and revolutionary tablet this holiday season. And if it's anything like the service available for iPods, it might even be free, which would be doubly delicious.
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.
Spring Design's Alex eReader Has You Seeing Double Do you like having cake? Do you like eating it, too? If so, you're exactly the kind of customer Spring Design has in mind for its Alex eReader. With an E Ink display up top and a color LCD touchscreen right below it, the Alex lets users not just read eBooks but browse the Web and download Android apps. Call it a difficulty to commit. Or maybe it's just a matter of wanting it all. Regardless, feel free to check my full review of the Spring Design Alex eReader.
Barnes & Noble Launches Nook eReading App for Android; iPhone and iPad Versions to Get Update Nook does. Barnes & Noble introduced a new eReading app today, this time to satiate the reading appetites of consumers who use Google's popular Android operating system. Folks with smartphones and other devices that run Android 1.6 or higher (hey, maybe I should test this on a rival eReader that runs on Android, just for giggles) will be able to use the free Nook for Android app, which is called, um, Nook. In fact, B&N says that it will start naming all its eReading applications Nook to build on the brand.
Seagate Announces New 3TB Drive Can Store "Countless Hours" of Digital Music According to a press release from Seagate, the company has just broken all storage records by releasing the world's first 3 Terabyte external hard drive. Seagate says that their new 3TB drive is capable of storing "countless hours" of digital music, or if you prefer: 120 HD movies, 1,500 video games, or thousands of photos.
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