Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by ElectroGeek
When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone in January, I wrote,
The other problem is that computers are inherently buggy. Macs crash, and it’s frustrating when they do. It’s even more frustrating, however, when your music player crashes, and if your phone or your TV crashes, you’ll probably want to tear your hair out. The iPhone is [...]
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Posted on June 21st, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Creative’s ZEN Stone launched a few months ago to worldwide acclaim as a serious challenger to the Shuffle at half the price – now Creative adds an OLED and calls is the Stone Plus.
Clearly unable to call their new mp3 player the ‘Creative ZEN Stoned’, Creative have settled on the title ‘ZEN Stone Plus’ instead, [...]
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Posted on June 5th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
New Ignition feature will focus on promoting up-and-coming acts through free music and video downloads.
Today’s wired/wireless world offers us a fascinating array of entertainment choices, and has made it so that radio is no longer the primary means with which we discover new music, as it was 30, 20, or even just 10 years ago. [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Microsoft says it is on track to sell its millionth Zune music player, the software company’s would-be challenger to Apple’s enormously popular iPod.
Microsoft expects the player to hit the sales milestone by the end of its fiscal year in June, almost eight months after the product made its debut. Apple, which launched its iPod music [...]
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Posted on May 23rd, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Customized streaming radio service will soon be available to users of the Sonos wireless music system.
Users of the Sonos wireless music system have another music service to tap into after installing a new software update. Sonos and the grassroots music service Pandora have partnered to offer users direct access to the service through the Sonos [...]
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Posted on May 16th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
The music-download service Amazon.com Inc. announced yesterday represents the latest attempt by a digital retailer to meet one of the biggest challenges facing the industry: how to sell music that consumers can play on a wide variety of devices, including Apple Inc.’s dominant iPod.
For now, the easiest way to sell music to create such a [...]
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Posted on May 11th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
According to a research paper published by a 17 year old Michigan high school student, iPods caused various types of interference in pacemakers in 50 percent of the patients tested. Since the mean age of the group of patients studied was 76.1 (+/- 8.6 years) there probably isn’t much of a chance they’ll be carrying [...]
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Posted on May 4th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Creative recently rolled out a sweet little 1GB mini MP3 player. And I mean little. This little baby will fit in any pocket and rock hard for 10 hours. Oh yeah!
The Creative ZEN Stone is an ultra-portable mp3 player for those who want to listen to their tunes and want the ultimate in compact portability. [...]
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Posted on April 22nd, 2007 by ElectroGeek
An iPod is fine for listening to music on the go, but sometimes people want to cast headsets aside and hear their playlists piped through the living room by a sound system.
Manufacturers offer dozens of devices that do this: The iPod pops into a docking station in an updated version of a boombox and can [...]
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