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Photos: Apple's Jobs slims down laptop for Macworld 2008
Photo Some new features include maps that can approximate your location, the ability to customise the home screen and send text messages to multiple people and the option to view lyrics for songs you're listening to. [16 Jan 2008]
Mac OS X Panther Hacks: Back Up Your Digital Music Collection
White Paper User has thousand-CD collection ripped to the computer, as well as hundred or so songs purchased from iTunes Music Store. All that work converting the CDs and all those songs purchased are as good as gone. [25 Oct 2007]
Photos: Microsoft's Zunes get a remix
Photo The 80GB model (above centre) will retail for $249 and store up to 20,000 songs. The device comes only in black and can hold up to 20,000 songs, 25,000 pictures or 250 hours of video. The new 80GB Zune features a hard drive, a 3.2-inch screen and... [03 Oct 2007]
Microsoft Zune gets a makeover
News Microsoft has unveiled the second generation of Zune digital music players and will offer consumers one million unprotected songs on its online music store. Microsoft then reversed itself in April, saying it would eventually sell unprotected songs... [03 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.09.07
Round-Up And then, the Round-Up suspects, only because mega capacity flash memory is too scarce and expensive to stick into devices to cater for people who simply have to carry around 40,000 songs in their pocket. [07 Sep 2007]
DRM-free tunes coming to the Zune too?
News Microsoft plans to follow Apple in selling unprotected songs from EMI, though the company won't say just when such tracks will appear on the Zune Marketplace store. Reindorp added he did not have a time frame for when unprotected songs will be... [05 Apr 2007]
Fixed: Microsoft issues Zune update
News Microsoft has released a minor update to its Zune software aimed at fixing several issues, including one that was causing some users to hear skipping when playing back purchased songs. Microsoft also noted the Zune held its number two spot in NPD's... [29 Mar 2007]
Microsoft to issue fix for Zune glitch
News Microsoft is planning to issue a firmware update next month designed to fix a glitch that is causing some owners of its Zune music player to experience skipping when playing songs purchased from Microsoft's online store. [01 Mar 2007]
Ten things not to do with your data
News British comedian Dom Joly, presenter of Trigger Happy TV, thought the joke was on him when he dropped his laptop, damaging a hard drive containing 5,000 photos, 6,000 songs, a book he was writing and all of his newspaper columns. [16 Nov 2006]
Microsoft shows off iPod killer
News The shared songs can be heard up to three times over three days. The device, which the company anticipates will be ready in time for the holidays, will come in three colours and be capable, via its built-in wi-fi, of sharing full-length songs with... [15 Sep 2006]
Samsung unveils 8GB hard drive phone
News Samsung is hoping the device, which can hold more songs than an iPod nano, will take off with music fans. Samsung has taken the wraps off a mobile phone that boasts the biggest hard drive seen on such a device to date. [07 Mar 2006]
iTunes rival pipes up
News Lord has said that his vision for Songbird is software which makes little distinction between songs that happen to be located on a local drive and music that is online. As an early example, the software contains a web browser that lets listeners... [10 Feb 2006]
Jobs delivers Mactels "a little ahead of schedule"
News The iTunes Music Store has now sold about 850 million songs and is on track to pass the one billion mark in the next few months, selling about three million songs per day, he added. A second version will feature an 1.83GHz processor and a 100GB... [11 Jan 2006]
More flaws: Sony's latest patch comes unstuck
News On the one hand, labels have watched their revenues decrease over the past few years, as more people swap songs online and burn CDs for friends and acquaintances. Sony announced on Tuesday that a new risk had been found with a batch of 27 of its... [09 Dec 2005]
MP3 players owned by one-third of households
News Small remains beautiful in consumers' eyes, it seems, with most MP3 player owners putting only 1,000 songs or less on their devices. The cool factor - music player as fashion statement - is serving to drive adoption of MP3 players, JupiterResearch... [14 Sep 2005]
