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Poll: MP3 player king of commuter gadgets
News The MP3 player has been named the most popular gadget for passing the time on the daily commute by silicon.com readers. The latest silicon.com poll found 31 per cent of respondents feel listening to their music MP3s is the best way to get though... [08 Feb 2008]
Koreans take wraps off world’s smallest MP3 player
News Two Korean firms have unveiled a featherweight MP3 player that's so small it could easily be mistaken for a sliver coin. The companies claim the new device, which weighs a mere 15 grams and comes with 128MB of non-expandable memory, is the smallest... [04 Aug 2003]
iPod faces challenge from $58bn MP3 player market
News The impending competition that awaits Apple's extremely popular iPod music player is the focus of the IDC study. In particular, the portable and home-based MP3 CD/MiniDisc player categories will be hurt by slowness in the overall markets for those... [22 Sep 2004]
Virgin MP3 player no match for iPod in storage
News Virgin Electronics' new MP3 player, unveiled on Monday, appears to give style a priority over storage. The music player comes with its own ear buds but can also work with other headsets. The circular, half-ounce gadget has a capacity of 128MB... [20 Jul 2004]
iPod massacres Dell's MP3-player dreams
News The company will, however, continue to offer its 512MB flash player. The company has decided to focus on the flash memory DJ Ditty player as a way of streamlining its MP3 products, he said. Like other hardware makers, Dell has been unable to... [07 Feb 2006]
Mobile music to kill the MP3 player?
News MP3 players face an uncertain future as analysts predict music-enabled mobiles will outnumber standalone MP3 devices by five to one come 2012. More than half of the one billion mobile handsets shipped globally are expected to have music-playing... [08 Jan 2007]
Creative to make Apple pay over iPod patent
News Sim Wong Hoo, head of MP3 player maker Creative, has indicated the company is expecting to earn royalties from rival Apple. He said: "Hopefully this will be friendly but people have to respect intellectual property," adding that Creative is... [09 Dec 2005]
Dell's news direction is music to the ears
News The PC maker is preparing to unveil a new consumer-electronics plan that involves selling two new devices, including a portable music player, under its brand name in time for Christmas. One of its first new consumer-electronics devices will be a... [24 Sep 2003]
Sharp cuts into PDA market
News Sharp hopes to distinguish itself in the market by including an MP3 player and a 64Mb memory card for storing MPEG video files. Elsewhere, Talkingbooks.org and Webgenerics are to offer children's books that can be downloaded from the internet onto... [28 Nov 2000]
RealNetworks unveils Web jukebox
News RealJukebox is not the first MP3 player on the market, but it launches with the support of over 60 artists, some of whom have supplied the player with exclusive content. RealNetworks has launched RealJukebox, an online system for recording and... [04 May 1999]
Lower prices key to MP3 subscription success
News The cost of subscribing to music services will have to drop below $10 (£5.50) per month to attract a significant number of MP3 player owners. According to research house Parks Associates, 62 per cent of MP3 player owners in the UK are unwilling to... [26 Aug 2005]
Half of iPod owners 'will ditch Apple for Zune'
News A new report from ABI Research has discovered that of those iPod users thinking of buying a new MP3 player, 58 per cent are "somewhat likely" or "extremely likely" to spend their money on a Zune, scheduled to hit shops in the US in November. [02 Nov 2006]
Virus warning: Wallon destroys Media Player
News A new mass-mailing virus called Wallon which destroys Windows media player and is activated when a user tries to play MP3 or video files from an infected PC, has been discovered in Europe. If by default the system uses Windows Media Player, the... [13 May 2004]
MP3 players owned by one-third of households
News Almost one-third of households will be using a portable music player this year, analysts have found. According to JupiterResearch, 35 per cent of households will own a portable music player in 2005 and, by 2010, that figure will rise to nearly 70... [14 Sep 2005]
Dell's DJ Ditty is dead
News It's thought the MP3 player line was dropped for failing to pull significant market share from behemoth Apple. Dell is not the first to have bowed out of the music player market as a result of the iPod's dominance - D&M Holdings announced a year... [24 Aug 2006]
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