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A Home Base for iPod Hits
(See Corrections & Amplifications item below.) Next time you get comfortable on the couch, remember that you’re relaxing in the consumer electronics battleground: the living room. Major tech...
View ArticleWhen to Stay With Windows
Here are a few questions I’ve received recently from people like you, and my answers. I have edited and restated the questions a bit, for readability. We plan to buy a new computer running the XP...
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Fresh Prince Gettin' Jiggy Wit HD Video
If YouTube aims to someday host every music video ever made, as co-founder Steve Chen once claimed, it better get crackin’. Because the market’s getting crowded. This morning PluggedIn Media launched a...
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Apple's iPod Touch Can Act as Remote For Music System
One of the first things I did eight years ago after converting my CD collection to MP3 files on my personal computer was to snake a cable from the PC to my stereo system in another room. The setup gave...
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iTunes 8 to Feature Slide-Out Keyboard, Dual Batteries?
The Apple rumor mill has such a hair trigger, that even passing mention of an unreleased product can set it into yammering motion. As happened today after Digg founder Kevin Rose offered up some...
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iPhone 2.1: The Fix Is In
Apple (AAPL) released iPhone 2.1 at 6 a.m. PDT today, and as CEO Steve Jobs said earlier this week, it does appear to “fix lots of bugs.” iPhone version 2.1 contains many bug fixes and improvements,...
View ArticleFresh 'Discoveries' from iPod, Zune
Amid a speech by its CEO and a musical performance, Apple last week unveiled a new version of its iTunes software and some new iPods. Meanwhile, Microsoft‘s Zune announced via press release that new...
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Google Answers the iPhone
In the exciting new category of modern hand-held computers — devices that fit in your pocket but are used more like a laptop than a traditional phone — there has so far been only one serious option....
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Van Natta Takes Playlist CEO Job, With New Investment by Pittman
Former Facebook exec Owen Van Natta will take the CEO job at a music discovery site called Playlist, a move that had been speculated last week, after he did not end up taking another position as head...
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Flip Camcorder Goes High-Def
Over the past couple of years, Pure Digital Technologies has changed the way people think about video cameras by turning these heavy, expensive, intimidating devices into affordable, user-friendly...
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New From Apple: iPod Shuffle HAL Edition
The Apple Store went down for updating early this morning and when it returned, it featured an all-new iPod shuffle. Nearly half the size of its predecessor, this third-generation player features a new...
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The Littlest iPod Packs In Songs and Finds Its Voice
In these days of economic distress, it’s nice when technology companies add innovative features to the products at the bottom of their price ranges. So it’s notable that Apple’s cheapest iPod, the...
View ArticleA Facial-Recognition-Based Playlist?
Some day, your cellphone might be able to read you as well as your best friend or significant other, though not if you have a poker face. Sony Ericsson filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent...
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Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff: How to Make Money While Music Becomes...
As a longtime music executive and talent manager, Irving Azoff has had to find a way to work with everyone from inebriated rock stars to David Geffen. But he’s never had to placate Washington, D.C.,...
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Another Music Start-Up Sued: EMI Takes Grooveshark to Court
Digital music start-ups seem to come in two flavors these days: Those being sued by the major music labels and those with expensive licensing deals they can’t afford. But for some reason, plucky...
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Napster: Don't Hold Your Breath Waiting for Our Awesome New iPhone App
Best Buy’s Napster wants you to know that you can now buy music “over the air” and beam it directly to your phone. Yawn. What about the company’s awesome new iPhone app, the one that will let you...
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A Clicker To Watch TV Online
Finding TV shows online can be a major hassle. If you can remember which network hosts the show, you then must hunt through a maze of listings of several other television shows on that network’s Web...
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For the iPad, Apps With Their Own Wow Factor
In the days since the launch of Apple’s iPad Saturday, there has been an explosion of apps to run on it—3,000 and counting. They are mostly free and incorporate new ways of navigating one of the...
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Microsoft Reaches for the Sky With Its Kin Phone
Finally, after years of churning out corporate-centric smartphones, Microsoft has designed a homegrown, cool and truly consumer-focused mobile device. It’s called the Kin (kin.com), and it comes in two...
View ArticleTrying Out a Revamped Myspace
Thanks to the popularity of Facebook, it’s easy to assume that all social networks are designed primarily to connect friends with one another. But many of these networks—think Twitter, Yelp and...
View ArticleSean Parker and Daniel Ek on Apple, Playlists and the End of the CD: The D10...
[ See post to watch video ] As streaming music services rise in popularity and more files are stored up in the cloud, Sean Parker and Daniel Ek want to make one thing clear: The CD is dead and gone....
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Spotify's Sean Parker and Daniel Ek Make Music -- And Some Noise: The Full...
At the 10th D: All Things Digital earlier this month, we paired online music’s best known entrepreneurs — Daniel Ek and Sean Parker. They now work together at Spotify — Ek as CEO and Parker as...
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Log On, Listen, Blog, Discuss
When you hear a catchy new song, it’s hard not to tell your friends about it. The opposite is also true: it’s nearly impossible to discuss a song when you haven’t heard it first. Yet there are plenty...
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