Sir Paul McCartney is offering his latest side project as a DRM-free digital download available as high-quality MP3 files, FLAC files and Apple Lossless files. The move comes at a time when once again The Beatles back catalogue has been delayed from debuting on iTunes, due to what McCartney calls &...
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Internet tracking firm ComScore Tuesday said that YouTube had almost 100 million viewers in October 2008, easily making it the no. 1 online video property by unique viewers (99.5 million) and total videos streamed (5.3 billion). Perhaps more impressive than the huge viewership numbers is the...
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Home entertainment peripheral maker Marantz America has introduced the IS301 Wireless Dock for iPod. It's priced at US$250 and it's coming in January. The IS301 is designed to provide wireless audio playback for an iPod connected to a home entertainment system. It can also work as an extended wired...
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Illustration: Lou Beach If you listen to the Internet--and I don't recommend you listen too closely, as it will drive you mad as surely as if you were privy to the whispers of the vast underdeeps--then you'd have good reason to think that Apple was going to unleash the rest of their vast iTunes c...
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Sony has named its Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, plant as the second factory of a planned 5 or 6 that will be shut down as part of a global restructuring. The factory is Sony's last remaining TV manufacturing facility in the U.S. and the closure will see 560 people lose their jobs. On Tuesday Sony an...
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With the release of the iPhone 3G and the App Store, iPhone software was all the rage when it came to Apple's mobile devices in 2008. Yet, the companies who've populated the iPod ecosystem with speakers, headphones, cases, and other accessories continued to produce fine accessories all year long. A...
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Times are tough, we know, so here's something to consider if you're planning on asking for (or giving) a personalized iPod for the holidays. Apple's made it easier and easier to engrave an iPod with a special message--a two-line message is free and doesn't add anything in the way of shipping time. B...
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Will we be seeing DRM-free music on iTunes? That's the latest rumor from French site Electronlibre , which says tunes from Sony-BMG, Warner, and Universal Music will be sold without copy protection. "As always with Apple, we move forward with caution," Electronlibre reports. "Nevert...
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Paramount Wireless on Monday introduced a new iharmonix product line, focused on offering earphone designs. The new earphones are designed to work with iPods, iPhones and Blackberry devices, and run $29.95 - $59.95 depending on the model. The Platinum i-series features an in-line microphone, mult...
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Somehow Apple always seems to pick the catchiest songs for its iPod commercials. The latest iPod touch spot is no exception; the accompanying track, "Around the Bend" by The Asteroids Galaxy Tour has definitely lodged itself in my brain like Phineas Gage's infamous iron rod (man, the t...
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As Verizon steps up promotion of its FiOS pay-TV services in Philadelphia, Comcast is lashing out at the competitor, saying that Verizon鈥檚 claim of having more HD channels is misleading, as reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer . But when we tale a closer look is taken at the HD content options ...
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The tweets and Facebook comments have all be tabulated from my one-day experiment, and Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" tops the list of favorite Christmas/Holiday songs , courtesy of all of my followers/friends/colleagues. The results were a landslide for Mariah -- the s...
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Over the years, I've seen iPod docks merged with a wide range of household objects: beds , chairs , desks , LCD displays , keyboards , fireplaces , and even toilet-paper holders . So it's hard to believe it's taken this long for someone to combine an iPod-charging dock with a nightlight. Yet...
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Tapulous has announced the release of Christmas with Weezer , a game for the iPhone and iPod touch. It costs US$4.99 and is available for purchase at the App Store. A music beat game based on Tap Tap Revenge, one of the App Store's top free apps, Christmas with Weezer features holiday-themed music...
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High-definition is rapidly going mainstream. Samsung has announced a new image sensor for notebook webcams that supports 720p HD video at 30 frames per second. It鈥檚 too early to say how much HD-ready webcams will add to the cost of portable PCs, but given the sour economy and price pressur...
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Every holiday season, one item becomes the hottest in the world, everybody needs it, and nobody can get it. This season, that item may be the iPod. According to financial analyst Shaw Wu of the Kaufman Brothers , we are facing an iPod shortage of iPhone proportions. Wu checked his retail sources a...
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Graphic: Diego Aguirre Yesterday it was all about the turkey, but today it's all about the deals. After this year's sluggish economy , many electronics retailers are offering steep Black Friday discounts on popular tech items to fill their stores and get their cash registers ringing -- saving y...
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Apple would like for all of us to think about the iPhone and iPod touch (and all iPod models, really) as hermetically sealed black boxes powered by microscopic elves who turn microscopic levers as quick as they can in order to generate that special Apple Magic. Leave it to geeks to break the black ...
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QuickerTek has introduced an external battery that works with the iPod, iPod touch and iPhone. It costs US$44.95. The battery plugs into the 30-pin dock connector port on iPods and iPhones. It has a retractable USB charging cable that lets you connect it to a computer (or USB-equipped power plug)...
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Artwork: Chip Taylor Eighty-one per cent of worldwide online videos are viewed using Adobe Flash technology, making it the number one format for video on the Web. This is according to the independent research firm comScore. Adobe Flash Player software is already installed on 98 per cent of I...
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