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Notes From Apple's Quarterly Financial Report: Doubled iPhone Sales, and What Leak?

Apple showed off its impressive quarterly results today--this has been its best non-holiday quarter ever. But what about that little leak this past week?READ MORE

Microsoft's Zune HD Revealed, Stirs Up Even More Rumors

After months of rumors, Microsoft suddenly pulled the covers off its upgraded Zune personal media player late yesterday. It's called the Zune HD, and it's unashamedly gunning after the iPod touch. Does it have a shot? It ...READ MORE

Sirius Introduces New Portable Stiletto 100

This week, Sirius Satellite Radio’s much awaited portable music player and recorder, The Stiletto 100, is finally available to the masses. As Sirius heats up the already flaming competition among MP3 players, iPods and XM’s ...READ MORE

Steve Jobs on the iPod .Vs Zune

In celebration of the iPod's upcoming fifth birthday, Newsweek writer Steven Levy recently talked with Steve Jobs about the iPod's cultural impact, including its design, cool factor, and affect on how we listen to music. When asked ...READ MORE

Is the Music Industry Blackmailing Microsoft?

Microsoft plans to pay Universal Music a percentage of its revenue from sales of its new portable media player, the Zune, the New York Times reported yesterday. Microsoft is trying to position the Zune as an iPod killer and plans to ...READ MORE

Apple Takes Flight

In its most recent move to saturate the music market, Apple has partnered with seven of the major world airlines to make iPods an integral part of in-flight entertainment. Beginning in mid-2007, Air France, Continental Airlines, ...READ MORE

Zune Flops on Cyber Monday

By most accounts, this holiday sales season is off to a good start for electronics retailers. Microsoft's Zune, however, was conspicuously absent from Amazon's top ten electronics list on Cyber Monday. Today's Wall Street Journal ...READ MORE

No iPod Street Crossings

Put those Blackberries away, and take those headphones out of your ears if you work or live in New York. Well not yet, but the possibility has arisen. New York State Senator Carl Kruger (D) has proposed a bill that would fine anyone ...READ MORE

Not So Good With Names

Apple Inc, much like its Mac avatar in commercials, is the "hip, with-it" company of the tech world. This behemoth epitomizes innovation and style with CEO Steve Jobs reigning as the god of the must-have gadget universe. Yet, while ...READ MORE

TechMonday: The Open-Source Consultancy

In the September issue of Fast Company, we look at five consumer electronics products whose design was inspired, or could be modified, by a larger community. Now, a young entrepreneur is hoping to harness that power to go beyond ...READ MORE

Microsoft Goes on iPod Offensive: New Zunes/phone in June?

Microsoft must really feel the heat from Apple's success. In a new ad campaign, the technology behemoth targets the hidden costs of iPod ownership. There's also a confusing leak pointing to a potential Zune-based phone that's due in ...READ MORE

Technology: Steve Jobs Shows New iPod Touch and iPod Nano -- iPhone Price Drops $200

At a press event today Steve Jobs revealed Apple's latest iterations of its iPod music players. The biggest reveal was the iPod Touch -- basically an iPhone without the phone. It comes in two varieties: 8 GB for $299 and 16 GB for ...READ MORE

Apple Fast Becoming iPod, Inc.

In 2007, Apple decided it would drop the "Computer" from its corporate title and become simply Apple, Inc. At the time the change seemed semantic or aesthetic, depending on your outlook. But the move proved more prescient this morning ...READ MORE

Apple Gives iPod Nano Video Eyes, iPod Touch Stays Blind

Apple just announced its refreshed iPod line-up, and among the products came the long-rumored news that the iPod Nano would be getting a built-in video cam...but not the iPod Touch. It's a tad surprising, but still a clever ...READ MORE

Are Slipping iPod Sales Bad News for the Recording Industry?

Over at PaidContent they're making a bit of noise about some thinking by analyst Mark Mulligan that says a slip in rising iPod sales is bad news for the record industry. It's an interesting idea, but basically misses the point. The ...READ MORE

Good tips for buying Wholesale iPod Accessories

Good tips for buying Wholesale iPod Accessories The iPod is the most widely purchased MP3 player and certainly has the biggest reputation. When people think of MP3 players, the iPod tends to come to mind first. It has been the ...READ MORE

Apple Announcements

Apple announced a host of new products today including iPods, iTunes 7, QuickTime 7.1.3, and iTV. iPod The new iPod Shuffle is now about the size of the iPod Radio Remote with an aluminum design and contains one gigabyte of flash ...READ MORE

Don't Make Us Think

Can choice be a bad thing? After years of enjoying friends' Xbox 360s, I decided to go buy one of my own. But then which do you buy? Microsoft currently has four models of the Xbox 360 available. It is further complicated by the fact ...READ MORE

Rumor: Zune HD to Go Head-to-Head With Next iPod Touch

We first heard about the HD video-player goodness of the Zune HD weeks ago, and now a rumor suggests a September 8 launch for the device. Perfect timing to pitch it into a head-on battle with the rumored new iPod ...READ MORE

An Apple a Month...

Tomorrow Apple is having another event announcing new products. While rumors persist of a video iPod, ThinkSecret.com believes there will be a new version of the standard iPod with 80GB, as well as upgraded Mac computers. Other ...READ MORE

Video for the Masses

Apple has finished its big event. The news? New smaller iMacs with built-in cameras and a bundled remote control to go with new photo creation software. And the new standard iPod. It is thinner. It has a 2.5-inch screen. And, as ...READ MORE

It's a DigitalLife

Three storylines emerged from DigitalLife, the big gadget conference that took place this weekend at New York's Javits Center: gaming, iPods, and HD-DVD players. These were served up by both an eclectic mix of small vendors promoting ...READ MORE

Live, from the Consumer Electronics Show...

Clearly, this week, Las Vegas is the world capital of overstimulation (and mile-long lines to buy a hot dog or board a shuttle bus). Today was the official opening of the Consumer Electronics Show, and here are some quick impressions ...READ MORE

Brave New MacWorld

As Scott Kirsner noted in his blog today, Steve Jobs' keynote at MacWorld focused almost exclusively on the Mac computer. Where was the iPod in the discussion? Before the expo began, many predicted a new version of the Shuffle. It ...READ MORE

How Do You Like Them Apples?

NextWorth, an eBay store, is making a big move in used iPods. They will buy your iPod off of you to sell on eBay. While you may make more auctioning it yourself, for those people who do not have the time nor want to take the trouble ...READ MORE