Music Players News Archives

Now here's an interesting MP3 player that will definitely get all those baddies in the fictional Gotham City quivering in their boots - the BatMP3 player. via Gizmonews

Some of the early music discovery startups, like Imeem , Pandora , Last.fm and iLike , now have many millions of people using their services every month. via VentureBeat

Memorex's new Clip & Play and MMP8590 are meant for those who want to purchase an MP3 player but find it hard to do so as they can't cobble together enough to pick up an iPod nano at the end of every month. via Gizmonews

With the price of digital radios continually coming down, there has never been a better time to switch to DAB digital radio. via Galaxy Manchester

Apple gives the outside world a look at the company's finances this week when it announces its earnings for its fiscal second quarter, the three-month period beginning in January and ending in March. via PC World

Apple reported the sale of 10.6 million iPods in FY Q2 on Wednesday, but that reflected only a one percent growth year over year. via IPod Observer

“What we saw for the first time is that selling prices fell, but volumes didn't improve enough to compensate”

Consumer navigation devices have gone from expensive gadgets to mainstream gear in just three years, but Europe's largest maker is struggling. via Canadian Business Magazine

Samsung Electronics, the world's top maker of memory chips, beat forecasts with a 37 per cent rise in quarterly profit on stellar performances in flat screens and mobile phones, sending its shares up 4 per ... via The Irish Times

First quarter profits at Wolfson Microelectronics were down 30 percent to $3.1 million compared to the same period last year, but the shares held firm following continued bid interest from Texas Instruments. via My ESM

“Maybe it's a little too early to take that step”

First eight-track players slid off into history. Then that unruly stack of cassette tapes disappeared from glove compartments. via USA Today

A futuristic MP3 player has washed ashore from Samsung, and it's dubbed the Pebble. via Reg Hardware

“You have continued momentum in the Mac business - they're defying gravity, so to speak. And you are in the very beginning of the iPhone product cycle.”

Apple Inc. is singing a happy tune. The Cupertino technology company said Wednesday it made more than $1 billion in profit in the most recent quarter, selling 2.3 million Macintosh computers, 10.6 million iPods ... via SF Gate

SuperSync today shipped SuperSync 2.3 , an application for iTunes and iPod users to keep their music libraries synchronized across multiple Mac and Windows computers. via EHomeUpgrade

News By Stephen Lawson Sony Corp. of America will buy Gracenote, which made its name with software that identifies digital music files, for about US$260 million. via CIO

JayBird has just released its JB-200 Bluetooth in-ears headphones that prides itself in bringing great audio quality no matter where you are, thanks to its wind- and weather-resistant build along with a ... via Ubergizmo

The latest and final handset in Samsung's Ultra edition range of cell phones goes on sale in the U.K., France and Germany this week and will be available in most other GSM markets by the end of May, the phone ... via Digit Magazine

Turn my headphones up... Turn me down. I was just hanging out in the office today, like I always do, when Rashaun handed me the Skullcandy Double Agent headphones to try out. via WKYS-FM Lanham

A tax on both your houses The UK music industry is pushing for a tax on music uploaded to portable devices like iPods, reports The Globe and Mail. via MarketingVOX

“Mumbai-based conglomerate jumps onto our list for the first time, fuelled by its paradigm-busting 2,500 dollar 'Nano' car for the masses.”

New York: India's two leading conglomerates, Tatas and Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Group, have made it to the league of the world's 25 most innovative companies, one riding on the cheapest commercial car Nano ... via The Hindu

“This research shows the potential is there for your future iPod to have hundreds of thousands times more capacity to store music and video than is currently possible.”

London, April 16: Scientists have come up with a way to significantly boost the memory of MP3 players and other gadgets while retaining their small size, an advance that may open the door to iPods with a ... via Daily India

The Samsung Armani is a compact touch-screen phone with tons of style, plus it comes with a megapixel camera and a nice music player. via ZDNet

“Last year alone, over 20 million MP3-capable portable devices were sold in the UK, and over 90% of music on the average MP3 player is music that has been copied.”

Extra charges to compensate for CD ripping News Talk NEWS: 17 April 2008 9:08 GMT by Amy-Mae Elliott UK music industry groups are campaigning for a tax to be applied on sales of iPods to compensate for music ... via Pocket-lint.co.uk

“Since these switches are little balls of metal oxide, they are made of similar stuff to normal semiconductors, but are much easier to manipulate as discrete molecular units”

Researchers at the University of Glasgow have devised a molecular scale switch that they claim could dramatically improve the data storage capability of devices without increasing their size. via EETimes.eu

This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Tuesday April 15 2008. It was last updated at 11:45 on April 15 2008. via Guardian Unlimited

“This research shows the potential is there for your future iPod to have hundreds of thousands times more capacity to store music and video than is currently possible.”

MUSIC lovers could soon have MILLIONS of songs on their iPods thanks to an amazing breakthrough. via The Sun Online

“I can't say that I'm still that same guy 100 per cent”

When country music star Alan Jackson kicks off his Western Canadian tour in Calgary on Wednesday, he's expecting to see a wide range of fans in the audience. via Slam Sports

“Pricing models are yet to be disclosed, but Tesco has said that it will vary dependent on whether tracks are bought separately or as part of bundles.”

Music:- In Britain, Tesco used to be where you'd go to buy your veggies and other groceries. via P2pnet.net

The good: The Zoom H2 handheld audio recorder offers an exceptional array of features and resolution support at nearly half the price of its competitors. via CNET News.com

There's one truism in the MP3 player market: people buy iPods in part because they're sexy. via PC World

You can quickly put your finger on a specific picture stored in Kodak's EasyShare M820 digital picture frame. via The Cincinnati Enquirer

It's inevitable that one day we will look at the first mp3 players as relics of the digital music age, but a new technology currently in development may have even today's current iPods and iPhones looking ... via Local Tech Wire

Nokia Corp. has begun publicly discussing what some are calling the cell phone maker's biggest product response yet to the Apple iPhone -- a device code-named Tube. via ComputerWorld

“Traditional radio and Internet-only radio must realize that they are now part of an even broader world of online information and entertainment options and respond accordingly”

The Infinite Dial 2008: Radio's Digital Platforms, the latest study by Arbitron and Edison Media Research, shows continued growth in usage and ownership of various forms of digital audio platforms, including ... via KVOA-TV Tucson

“He figured out my iPhone was a phone and an iPod and a computer. He knows how to work the DVD player and the remote.”

Worries over teen and adult cyberaddiction may pale with what's ahead. Eleven of the top 25 best-selling preschool toys on Amazon.com last week were electronic, and the list included not only LeapFrog and ... via Contra Costa Times

It's been on the market for just six months, and already the iPhone is the most used mobile browser for Internet access in the U.S., according to Irish researcher StatCounter. via Infoworld

“Jeff once said he couldn't imagine anything more important than reinventing the book. I think that sums it up really well, if you think about that across all our media products.”

Over the last 14 years, Amazon.com has mastered the art of getting physical copies of books, music and movies to customers through the mail. via New York Times

The Sony NWZ-A720 Walkman MP3 player series offers high-quality music, photo, and video playback, along with EX-style earphones, and a phenomenal battery life. via ZDNet

Listen up! Plan would tax downloads Apple last week confirmed that iTunes had outpaced Wal-Mart in January and February as the nation's No. via San Jose Mercury News

“We see this as a perfect opportunity to monitor and shape new trends as this market matures.”

FrameMedia , Inc., the leading provider of content for wireless digital picture frames and related devices, today announced the launch of its WirelessEnabledGizmos blog at http://www.wirelessenabledgizmos.com . ... via Market Wire

“It's a natural for online social networks, because they provide ways to share play lists and songs broadly. It won't be long before Facebook does something like this.”

MySpace is creating a free music Internet service with major recording labels to go head to head with digital giant Apple, whose iTunes has just claimed the crown as world's largest music store. via Maktoob Business

Over the years, Wal-Mart has zigged and zagged down the road at frenetic speeds and lapped the slowpokes with ease. via Fool.com

Hoping to leverage its enormously popular social network MySpace, News Corp. announced today a partnership with major record labels Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group to create MySpace ... via PC World

Apple Inc. says a new consumer study shows its iTunes online music store vaulted past Wal-Mart Stores Inc. via Examiner.com

The new Epson R1900 ink jet color printer produces prints that will cause people to ask, "Where did you get that printed?" Making borderless prints up to 13-inches wide and up to 44-inches long is a breeze, ... via The Modesto Bee

NWS / WMG We've confirmed through sources that MySpace has settled the pending litigation Universal Music, albeit in a very unique way. via The Internet Stock Blog

Research In Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry e-mail phone, forecast profit and sales that beat analysts' estimates after consumers snapped up devices with music players and Web browsers last quarter. via The Age

For years, Apple's story - 'and much of its stock run - 'has been about the iPod, its halo effect and the making of Steve Jobs' company as a consumer icon. via Seeking Alpha

“An expected decline in surplus stockpiles is revealing troubling signs of market weakness”

Global chip inventories are expected to have fallen to $2.9 billion at the end of the first quarter from $3.4 billion at end-December, but the drop is a reflection of supply cutbacks, not strong demand, iSuppli ... via Reuters