The third-generation iPod shuffle is here --and by here, I don't mean in the insubstantial "floating in the air of human knowledge" sort of way. I mean here, at my desk, in the Macworld offices. To prepare for my briefing Thursday morning with Apple, at which time I received said shuffl...
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Apple Inc. updated iTunes Wednesday, fixing a pair of security vulnerabilities, adding support for the new line of iPod Shuffles and boosting performance when loading large libraries and browsing the online store. The two bugs -- one in both the Mac and Windows versions, the second only in iTun...
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Graphic: Jeff Berlin British Communications Minister Lord Stephen Carter has revealed more details of his plan to create a digital rights agency that's designed to help combat illegal file-sharing . The agency was one of the proposals in Carter's Digital Britain report , which was released at t...
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iTunes gift cards worth $200 are now sold on a Chinese Website for merely $3. But that's not a crazy sales promotion from Apple -- it's actually a group of Chinese hackers who broke Apple's gift certificate algorithm and are now using a key generator to sell bargain gift cards on the Internet. The ...
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Apple on Wednesday introduced the next generation iPod shuffle . The shuffle has always been Apple's smallest iPod, but now it is nearly half the size of the previous model. The new iPod shuffle features VoiceOver, which enables the iPod to speak your song titles, artists and playlist names. The...
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Another Tuesday, another new Apple product. Following up last week's new desktop announcements , Apple today released a redesigned iPod Shuffle. Even smaller than the last one, the new iPod Shuffle has no playback controls on the player itself--instead, the playback controls are on the headphone ...
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Consider this your warning: Ryan Seacrest could be jumping out of your television sooner than you think. Three-dimensional television service, typically discussed as a "sometime in the future" type of technology, is now being targeted for a 2009 rollout in the United Kingdom. A British co...
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Blu-ray Disc titles are now selling for less than the cost of a single movie ticket. Amazon is offering hundreds of Blu-ray titles at half their normal prices for the next two weeks, with some going for as little as $10. With Blu-ray adoption expected to explode in 2009 (for hardware advice, see our...
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The once-pleasant harmony between Boxee and Hulu has now soured into a push-and-pull battle for Boxee to gain permanent access to Hulu's content. Hulu access was suspended last month and separate blog posts by both Hulu and Boxee indicate they were eager to reach a mutually beneficial sol...
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Baseball cards are getting a high-tech twist, thanks to new 3-D technology within the Web browsing world. The Topps Company has revealed a line of collector's cards that work with your Webcam to bring players to life -- and all the action unfolds right on top of your desk. Augmented Reality The ca...
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It鈥檚 coming to a close a bit sooner than expected: Circuit City鈥檚 going-out-of-business sale will end Sunday, March 8. Great American Group, one of four firms managing the liquidation of the once-great electronics chain, has announced that Circuit City鈥檚 $1.7 billion in inventory is just about gone....
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In a further sign that some in the music industry are caving into the file sharing credo "music is free," No Doubt is giving away its entire music catalog as part of a promotion for its 2009 Summer tour. 聽 To qualify for the music giveaway, you must spend $15 to become a member of...
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A prolonged study suggests that iPods and MP3 players have affected how people, the young especially, respond to music's fidelity range. Jonathan Berger, Professor of Music at Stanford University, California, has conducted an eight-year study in which students have rated various audio formats w...
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A fledgling software developer in Beijing has developed an embedded application that it hopes will bridge the gap between PCs and consumer electronics, allowing users to easily play computer video and audio files through their televisions and stereos. Called Nth Code Player, the application was dev...
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Sony skipped the hoopla of last month's Consumer Electronics Show and saved its Blu-ray player refresh for its product-line show today in Las Vegas. In addition to launching some new connected HDTVs, the company revealed its new Blu-ray Disc players and home-theater systems. The most expensive stand...
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LG has denied it is considering pulling out of the plasma TV market. The rumours started after a Korean newspaper Kyodo News claimed vice president at LG Lee Gyu-hong said in an interview that LG was aiming to "reduce costs" and did not "see a future" in plasma technology. ...
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Following up new HDTV models announced at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, Sony today unveiled its Bravia W-Series HDTVs. These new 1080p-resolution LCD TVs follow some of the trends we spotted at CES, such as faster refresh rates and Internet connectivity. The Bravia W-Series comes in ...
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Rather than building a Zune-branded smartphone, Microsoft Corp. plans to take the software and online store it built for its Zune media player and bring them to your television set in the hopes of emulating Apple Inc.'s phenomenally successful iTunes Store. But it still plans to deviate from i...
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From a manufacturing standpoint, one of the banes of Blu-ray Disc's existence has long been the muddled licensing process. To incorporate the Blu-ray Disc format--as well as the CD and DVD formats--into a device, manufacturers have had to contact each format's patent holders to arrange for a licen...
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