Whether it's by objective or subjective measures, 2007 figures to be go down as one of the banner years in Apple's three-decade history. And while its original computer business continues to thrive--the company twice set a record for quarterly Mac sales in the past year--Apple has two other product ...
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Given that the word "iPod" has become synonymous with "portable music player," it's easy to overlook other Apple-related music matters in 2007. Yet the year brought significant changes to the musical landscape in regard to online music distribution and digital rights management. ...
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People who received MP3 players as holiday gifts may want to steer clear of some Web sites that claim to offer legal music but don't have licensing agreements with major music labels, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) said. CDT, a consumer rights group, has published a listof more than ...
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Amazon on Thursday announced the release of new music on its Amazon MP3 music download service, through an agreement with Warner Music Group (WMG). Now users can download Digital Rights Management (DRM)-free music from artists including the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Eagles, Led Zeppelin, Madonna an...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc and News Corp.'s Twentieth Century Fox are set to announce a deal that will allow consumers to rent movies through Apple's digital iTunes Store, media reports said on Thursday. The agreement will allow rentals of Fox's latest DVD releases by downloading a copy from ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. has signed on Warner Music Group to its music download service, which aims to compete with Apple Inc.'s industry-dominating iTunes online store. Warner Music songs are available on the Amazon MP3 service, which lets users purchase the tunes an...
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People who received MP3 players as holiday gifts may want to steer clear of some Web sites that claim to offer legal music but don't have licensing agreements with major music labels, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) said. CDT, a consumer rights group, has published a listof more than ...
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macnn: USBFever.com has launched four new iPod accessories ranging from a tiny portable speaker earphones. The company’s Fingertip Mini Cube Speaker serves as a tiny sound system that works with all iPod models. The speaker is small enough to hang on a keychain, and features built-in ampl...
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Engadget: Hannuri Biz has a knack for sprucing plain ole e-dictionaries up with enough multimedia capabilities to still make them relevant, and it’s proving yet again that these things still have a place in our world with the vividly colored nurian X10. Aside from sporting an external LCD...
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The NPD Group's quarterly Digital Music Monitor reveals in its latest issue that Mac users are much more likely than PC users to pay to download music online. What's more, Mac users are more likely to buy CDs and are more likely to watch videos and listen to music on their computers and MP3 players....
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Online music store Soundbuzz is offering customers in Singapore the ability to purchase lossless audio files. Soundbuzz's High Fidelity Music Store offers songs from a range of Asian artists using the Scalable-to-Lossless (SLS) file format developed by Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology, an...
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Attack code threatens popular media players from Microsoft Corp. and AOL LLC, said a security expert who told Windows users to remove a buggy coder/decoder (codec) or disable the player programs. In a Saturday alert, Symantec Corp. said exploit code had been released that attacked a vulnerability i...
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The NPD Group's quarterly Digital Music Monitor reveals in its latest issue that Mac users are much more likely than PC users to pay to download music online. What's more, Mac users are more likely to buy CDs and are more likely to watch videos and listen to music on their computers and MP3 players....
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Online music store Soundbuzz is offering customers in Singapore the ability to purchase lossless audio files. Soundbuzz's High Fidelity Music Store offers songs from a range of Asian artists using the Scalable-to-Lossless (SLS) file format developed by Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology, an...
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The iPod touch uses advanced components and technological implementations that mean it's less a stripped-down iPhone and more an indication of the future of the iPod product line, at least, that's what one group of analysts believe. iSuppli has revealed some of the details pertaining to its latest ...
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Gizmodo: Compared to most Sony gear we’ve seen over the past few years, the mylo is a breath of fresh air. The media player does MPEG-4, digital audio, and pictures. But it also has a WiFi connection and a QWERTY keyboard, for chatting on Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger. It also works as a...
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PMP Today: It’s gonna be a while before the next installment of the Harry Potter movies comes out, but Archos?is giving Pot(ter)heads something to look forward to come January. Archos and Warner Brothers?patnered up to come out with a special edition 20GB Archos 605. Physically-speaking, it doesn’t ...
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DENVER (Billboard) - The 2007 mobile music market could be summed up in one phrase: "It's the device, stupid." And though no mobile music service or associated innovation gained even a fraction of the attention that Apple did by unveiling the iPhone, that story certainly helped shine a sp...
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From on-demand video services that were overly demanding, to underwhelming operating-system updates, 2007 was full of disappointments. We surveyed the landscape and polled some old friends to come up with the 15 products, companies, and industries that left the most sour taste in o...
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Audio Junkies: iPod focused audio manufacturer, mStation, has released details on its upcoming sound bar speaker system designed to compliment flat screen TVs. The mStation TheaterBar is the company’s attempt to capitalize on the flat screen craze by offering a system that mounts under the TV to mai...
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