Music Player
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Creative wants to make Apple pay
News Maker of rival MP3 players says it owns patent for iPod music navigation and plans to "pursue aggressively" royalties.
Tags: Music devices, MP3 players, Mac OS, Music, Patents
Sony's new Walkman can download Net music
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Sony's new Walkman to download Net music
News Sony will introduce its first Walkman supporting digital music downloaded from the Internet, a development that could profoundly influence the direction of the nascent business.
Zune marketing exec says good-bye to Microsoft
News Chris Stephenson, one of the employees Microsoft tasked with building Zune into an iPod challenger, is headed to Universal Music Group.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Apple Inc., Universal Music Group, chief marketing officer, entertainment, Microsoft Zune, music player, marketing, brand, Consumer Technology
BI comes to Kindle--will companies care?
News Business intelligence provider MicroStrategy says it will make its business reports and dashboards accessible through Amazon's Kindle DX reader.
Tags: Handhelds, Business applications, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Device, E-book, phone, Dashboard, business intelligence, music player, Apple iPod Touch
Dell profits slide on slowing demand
News Earnings per share, though, were up. Dell's CFO says that given the state of the global economy, the company is "pleased" with the performance.
Tags: Earning reports/forecasts, Sales/revenue, Personal Computers, IT Budget, CFO, Sales, 3G, CEO, music player, News.com
Samsung contemplating SanDisk acquisition
News South Korean consumer electronics giant is considering a buyout of the chipmaker to reduce its NAND flash memory costs, according to PaidContent.
Tags: Acquisitions, Processors, Memory, SanDisk Corp., NAND flash, NAND, consumer electronics company, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., music player, blog
Skype retiring third-party Extras
News Developers and users will have some adjustment time. Skype won't certify any new submissions, but it won't yank support for existing Extras until their certificates expire.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Backup, Developer, Mozilla Firefox, API, adjustment
Microsoft tells judge it's antitrust-compliant
News After catching criticism for favoring Windows Media Player, company says it will expand "antitrust training" for employees.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Antitrust
Apple ships 100 millionth iPod
News Device has dominated the music player market since its 2001 introduction; iTunes Store has similar success selling music, video online.
Tags: Music devices, Mac OS
ITC to investigate Apple, says Creative
News The U.S. International Trade Commission has launched a probe into whether iPods infringe on a patent owned by Creative.
Tags: MP3 players, Mac OS, Legal, Lawsuits, Patents
AOL, Liquid Audio find harmony
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Toshiba uses Liquid Audio format for new music player
News Toshiba, the world's biggest maker of laptop computers, will begin selling in Japan a portable music player capable of downloading music from the Internet using a delivery system developed by Liquid Audio, an online music distributor.
Gateway, AOL take wraps off Web appliance
News Gateway and America Online on Friday unveiled their long-anticipated Web appliance, the Touch Pad, which taps technologies from chipmakers Broadcom and Transmeta.
Apple names a new iPod chief and a COO, too
News Jon Rubinstein, head of the marquee iPod unit, plans to retire. Also: Tim Cook takes on the COO post.
Tags: Music devices, MP3 players, Leadership, Sales
