Articles tagged "ipod"

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New crop of MP3 players hits the market

by Troy Wolverton [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[24.Sep.08] :. Just in time for late back-to-school or early holiday shopping, Apple, Microsoft and others have unveiled a new crop of digital media players. Some have radical design changes. Many have neat new...

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Apple underwhelms with new iPod, a few upgrades

by Eric Benderoff [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[10.Sep.08] :. CHICAGO - Here’s what Apple announced Tuesday: a new iPod Nano and a fresh scheme to sell you more songs. The rest is just fancy packaging wrapped around window dressing. Oh, and...

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Microsoft takes another stab at Apple’s iPod

by John Letzing [MarketWatch (MCT)]

[9.Sep.08] :. SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. has released the latest versions of its portable media player, designed for the daunting task of challenging Apple Inc.’s market-dominating iPod. In recent...

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Rivals to iPod are music to your ears

by Eric Benderoff [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[28.Nov.07] :. This might be hard for some people to fathom, but there are digital music players made by other companies beside Apple. But before you think I’m about to write some type of heresy—iPod...

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Meet Apple’s new star, the Mac computer

by Troy Wolverton [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[31.Oct.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif. - For years, Apple has really been two companies: a mature, slow-growing one paired with a new, dynamic one, with the upstart driving the company’s renaissance. Apple’s...

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Improvements to iPod line lost in shuffle

by Eric Benderoff [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[12.Sep.07] :. A few interesting things were overlooked last week amid the uproar over the iPhone’s sudden price cut: Apple Inc.’s new line of iPods. The iPod Touch is a direct descendant of the...

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It’s hard for bands when Generation iPod just wants to press shuffle

by Jon Bream [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[11.May.07] :. MINNEAPOLIS - Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman, 22, was doing what many people of his generation do: multi-tasking. As he cruised through suburban Chicago, bellowing at the driver in front of him,...

 

Digital music industry finally faces reality

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[9.Apr.07] :. When Apple Inc. called a news conference last week, reporters on the tech and music beats believed they knew what was coming: CEO and Beatles freak Steve Jobs was going to make the announcement...

 

EMI, Apple rock digital music world

by Troy Wolverton [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[3.Apr.07] :. It’s taken more than 10 years, but the music industry is finally starting to make peace with the MP3. In a groundbreaking move, EMI Group announced Monday that it will let digital music...

 
 
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