The Register: Apple may have an existing exercise product partner, Nike, but several Apple patent applications have sprung-up online describing the company’s designs for a physical fitness system of its own. The exercise software appears to be based around iTunes and works like a personal trainer –...
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teenagers seem to know that loud music can damage their hearing, yet most see no reason to lower the volume on their iPods, a small study suggests. In focus-group discussions with students at two high schools in the Netherlands, researchers found that the teens were gen...
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DENVER (Billboard) - Leave it to the gadget industry to turn concern over electronic waste into a sales opportunity. Simply put, they're offering to buy back old devices to recycle or resell, in return for cash or in-store credit. Credit Toward Upgrades Coming to consumer electronic retailers natio...
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StatCounter reports that usage of the Mobile Safari Web browser included on the iPhone and iPod touch in the United States increased by 64 percent between December and March. The browser's share of the global Internet browser market more than doubled in the same period, from 0.03 percent to 0.08 p...
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Anything but iPod: The Samsung YP-P2 is one of the most popular players these days, with a wide range of features including touch screen, an excellent widescreen, and Bluetooth. The only thing that has been holding it down is the capacity, as so far it’s only been available in 2, 4 and 8GB...
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Slashgear: One way of playing music from your ugly iPod and guaranteeing no one ever sees it is if you move the speakers up to?45m away from the base. With Griffin’s Evolve you can wirelessly do just that. Each of the two speakers has a Lithium-Ion battery built in to power it and there is a pair o...
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PMP Today: The Eco-Media Player is available in Planete Green Europe for 199.95 euros. If you have forgotten about this player, it’s a PMP that you can wind up for power. Yep, this baby will play videos (asv/mp4, wmv, avi, mpegs) and music (MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV, OGG) via old school cranking. The Eco-...
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AUSTIN, Texas (Billboard) - Lou Reed is lashing out at new modes of audio technology, saying that "people have got to demand a higher standard" than current MP3 music files. The edgy rocker spoke at the South By Southwest Music Festival + Conference, which is underway in Austin, Texas. ...
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AUSTIN, Texas (Billboard) - Lou Reed is lashing out at new modes of audio technology, saying that "people have got to demand a higher standard" than current MP3 music files. The edgy rocker spoke at the South By Southwest Music Festival + Conference, which is underway in Austin, Texas. ...
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Roxio is introducing Toast 9 Titanium in the U.K., ushering in support for Blu-ray disc authoring and remote video streaming using an iPhone. Toast 9 lets users burn high-definition content from high-definition (HD) camcorders and Elgato's EyeTV devices to Blu-ray disc or DVD using a separately ava...
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Anything but iPod: Tiny players are in these days. Both the Sansa Clip and the Zen Stone (Plus) have had great success with small form factor, and it seems more manufacturers want a market share - in this case Samsung. The YP-S2 was spotted at a Samsung showcase event last night, and seem to fit ri...
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Japan is investigating a potential defect in an early generation iPod nano after one of the players reportedly emitted sparks while recharging. Japan's trade and economy ministry said local authorities are investigating to find out if a defect affects the lithium-ion batteries installed within the ...
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SanDisk today introduced a new MP3 player it intends as competition to the iPod nano -- the new Sansa Fuze MP3 player. It's coming in April in 2, 4 and 8GB capacities for $79.99, $99.99 and $129.99 respectively. The flash-based Sansa Fuze features a 1.9-inch color screen, and has the ability to pla...
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Mobile Magazine: Ready for a blast from the past? It’s a little hard to believe that the first commercially available MP3 player hit the market 10 years ago this month. The MPMan F10, released in March 1998, was a product by Saehan Information Systems of Korea and it featured 32MB of Flash...
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PMP Today: We’ve pegged Energy Sistem?as possibly a major player in the PMP industry in the near feature and we are absolutely correct. A successor of the 5000, the Inngenio 6000 is a wholly different multimedia animal with a 2.8-inch touchscreen and a shiny steel casing. It does not have WiFi and ...
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Independent film studio Lionsgate is working out a deal with Apple that will see its films ship with smaller copies on the DVD for iPod and iPhone users. Lionsgate today announced it is working to provide iTunes Digital Copy files on selected DVDs and Blu-ray discs. These copies can be legitimately...
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Independent film studio Lionsgate is working out a deal with Apple that will see its films ship with smaller copies on the DVD for iPod and iPhone users. Lionsgate today announced it is working to provide iTunes Digital Copy files on selected DVDs and Blu-ray discs. These copies can be legitimately...
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PMP Today: MPIO is known in this website as a manufacturer of PMPs with quite amusing designs, and it comes as no surprise that one of their players was voted one of the worst DAP of 2007 by CNET. MPIO’s most recent model, however, might just vindicate the company. Sure, the V10 is a Cowon Q5 wannab...
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Samsung Electronics and Adidas have joined the race against Apple and Nike to offer people a device that plays music and keeps track of workouts. Samsung's miCoach music-mobile phone even lives up to its name by encouraging people as they run, telling them to "speed up" if they aren't kee...
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The iTunes Store now features two new games for the iPod: Mini Golf and Scrabble. Each costs US$4.99 and can be played on third-generation iPod nanos, iPod classics and fifth-generation (video) iPods. Mini Golf isn't truly a new game -- this is a reworked version of a game that EA previously rele...
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