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Keyspan on Tuesday introduced its Sync Cable for iPod. The $49 cable enables iPods to work with the entertainment systems of 12 different models of 2008 Ford, Lincoln and Mercury automobiles. When the Sync Cable for iPod is connected, it enables iPod users to display their iPod's content on the scr... More...

More types of Microsoft Corp. Zune music players are in the works, but some analysts are unsure whether new form factors or functions will significantly boost Zune's popularity. Microsoft sees three main categories in the sector, and all of them are important as the company develops new Zunes, said... More...

Terra Firma's US$6.4 billion purchase of record-label EMI raises some questions about the future direction of one of the recording industry's Big Four music makers. But one thing that's unlikely to be affected by EMI's changing ownership is its decision to offer DRM-free tracks via the iTunes Store.... More...

LAS VEGAS--MP3 players with giant-sized hard drives are so last Christmas. People want smaller, simpler players and need just a fraction of the storage Apple's popular 20GB IPod offers. That's the tune a growing number of manufacturers are singing here at the 2005 International Consumer Electronics ... More...

Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store was under discussion at New York's Digital Music Forum this week, even though the company did not officially attend the event. RealNetworks Vice President of Music Services Sean Ryan offered the keynote at the show. He said, "2004 will be a great year for di... More...

MP3s are around to stay, and Sony has apparently gotten the message. The company announced that some of its new music player models will now feature direct support for MP3 audio files, in addition to its ATRAC3 format. Walkman Gains MP3 Support for MP3 will first appear in flash-based players that S... More...

Digital Rights Management technology has been added to the MP3 standard, according to one of the companies behind the ubiquitous audio encoding technology. In a new version of the popular music encoding standard, French company Thomson has added the ability to limit how many times a song can be dup... More...

The big news in digital audio recently was Sony's NW-HD3, the company's first hard-drive-based digital audio player to support the MP3 format right out of the box. If you haven't been following the saga of Sony's attempts to enter the compressed audio market, that last sentence may sound a bit odd-... More...

It boasts a DRM-free selection, variable pricing, and cross-platform compatibility. But does the new digital music service from Amazon.com have what it takes to go toe-to-toe with the 800-pound gorilla of the digital music retail world, Apple's iTunes Store? For other online music services, the ans... More...

EMI — the music group behind Apple’s DRM (digital rights management) free iTunes — has agreed to be bought by private equity firm Terra Firma for £3.2 billion (US$6.4 billion). EMI has been the subject of bid speculation for the past year as its business has st... More...

Olive Media Products and MusicGiants on Thursday announced that users of Olive's Opus media player will be able to purchase and download digital music that's unencumbered with Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions, and that uses lossless compression techniques. Olive sells a line of audiophi... More...

The Chinese government worked last year to suppress a news story that exposed poor working conditions in Foxconn's iPod factory, an investigation has revealed. The allegations are contained in a 17-page report by Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, Journey to the heart of internet censorship, pr... More...

A 13-year-old coder that goes by the name AriX has released an application called iJailBreak that allows users to install third-party applications on the iPod touch. The application was just updated to version 0.2.1, which fixed several bugs. According to the developer, The only user interaction re... More...

Apple's iPod classic may be no more than a stop-gap device, according to analysts at iSuppli. The researchers have taken an iPod classic apart, and found that the system isn't as advanced as other players in Apple's stable - and a lot cheaper to make than before. "While the rest of the iPod l... More...

PayPlay.FM on Tuesday announced that it’s now selling its catalog of 1.3 million tracks of DRM-free music in MP3 format, for $0.88 each. The company said it’s offering twice the number of DRM-free tracks it pledged to offer in October, 2006 during a “Day Against DRM&... More...

Bose has introduced the SoundDock Portable, a portable speaker system for iPod. The device joins the award-winning SoundDock system, which the smaller sibling aims to match on audio quality, despite its size. Bose engineers designed a new acoustic package, new electronics and a new power source fo... More...

Apple Computer will resolve its patent squabble with Creative Technology by paying the Singapore-based company US$100 million for a license to use a recently awarded patent. The deal announced today ends all legal disputes between the companies, including five currently pending lawsuits, according ... More...

Sony has learned several lessons from its reluctance to quickly embrace music download services and is now working hard to make up ground against the dominance of competitors such as Apple Computer, a senior executive said on Thursday. The Tokyo-based consumer electronics giant wasn't as quick off ... More...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp said on Monday it will give away millions of songs via downloads starting next month as it launches a wireless music service with Apple Inc . From October 2 to November 7 at more than 10,000 U.S. Starbucks locations, customers can... More...

The Duo's look at streaming and downloadable music continues with a sharp look at Microsoft's "PlaysForSure" system, which purports to guide buyers to portable units that can handle playback of various kinds of audio (and video) content. Hard to argue against making the wild world of musi... More...