Source: CBS News
The music industry goes to court Friday to try to force an Internet service provider to identify a subscriber accused of illegally trading copyrighted songs, setting up a legal showdown that could indelibly alter the free-swapping culture that has been a signature of the Web's early years.
Source: 3G
Nazomi Communications announced that its first silicon IC product, the JA108 Multimedia Accelerator Chip, is migrating from the sampling phase to production at world leading semiconductor foundry UMC. UMC was selected as Nazomi's sole foundry source for the production of the Java and multimedia applications accelerator chip that targets mobile wireless applications, such as 2G/2.5G/3G phones, and improves Java rich multimedia application software execution while extending battery life.
Ipsos-Reid came up with some interesting findings this week in their continuing research on digital music. The results have significant implications on the market viability of fee-based online music services as the company set out to measure the potential buying habits of people who actively download music from the Net.
As the name states the Jukebox FM Recorder 20 has an FM tuner and 20GB of storage capacity. The FM radio is particularly unique in that this is the first digital music player that we are aware of that can record from its own radio, a feature that makes the unit quite flexible if you catch over the airwaves a great tune you never heard of before. The radio also has a 30 second retro-capture buffer meaning you can still capture the beginning of that tune playing on the radio up to 30 seconds after it actually started.
Yes, I know today is officially the last day of summer, but in the minds of retailers that also means the holiday season is approaching fast. It has been a busy seven days for manufacturers unveiling their latest MP3 players and two more have joined the fray from iRiver.
SonicBlue just released the newest additions to the Rio MP3 portable line. Stepping away from the backpack designs of the Rio 600 and the Rio 800, both of these units come with 64MB of memory and are capable of reading 128MB flash cards. This gives them a top end of 192MB total potential storage. Most interesing is the Rio S30S, SonicBlue's new sport model.
SonicBlue just released the newest additions to the Rio MP3 portable line. Stepping away from the backpack designs of the Rio 600 and the Rio 800, both of these units come with 64MB of memory and are capable of reading 128MB flash cards. This gives them a top end of 192MB total potential storage. The Rio S30S is the most interesting of the two,designed for sport use.
Mambo has announced a new 20GB MP3 jukebox portable that records MP3s on the fly and also has a separate slot for MMC/SD memory cards. This allows you to use the unit to swap songs with others who have flash players, just have them give you their card and write to it.
Samsung recently announced the Yepp YP-900, their first offering into the digital jukebox market. Previewing it at last week's CeBIT Asia exhibition, the Yepp YP-900 comes with a 10GB storage capacity, an FM radio, and will use USB 2.0 for file transfers.
Source: OS Opinion
Start popping the corn, tech news fans: The classic battle between Microsoft and Apple has been officially rekindled.
Sure, the issues are different -- this time the fight is over media players rather than desktop operating systems -- but the players are the same. And regardless of which team you support, you gotta love the competition.
