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  • Happy eighth birthday, Apple iPod

    Good thing Apple doesn't call me up for business pointers because I couldn't have been more wrong about the iPod if I had tried.Over the years, the iPod has morphed into far more than an MP3 player but today, on its eighth birthday, let us take a…
  • Truphone hails 'iPhone on the cheap'

    UK VoIP outfit Truphone has come up with a clever way to have an iPhone on the cheap - buy an IPod touch MP3 player and add software to turn it into a phone. UK VoIP outfit Truphone has come up with a clever way to have an iPhone on the cheap…
  • Novell demonstrates its Linux Desktop 10

    To demonstrate Banshee, he connected an iPod nano music player to the USB port of his laptop. Novell has demonstrated the next release of Novell's Linux for desktops - even though the version of the software is not expected for some months.Nat…
  • Samsung touts 3GB mobile

    The drives in the Samsung phones are similar to those used in some portable digital music players, such as the iPod Mini.It's a logical extension to add an MP3 player to a cell phone," said Christian Collins, senior manager at Samsung's mobile…
  • New standard for hard drives in mobiles born

    Apple Computer's iPod and iPod mini use 1.8-inch and 1.0-inch drives respectively. According to market research firm IDC, worldwide portable digital music player shipments will reach more than 25 million units in 2008.
  • From CNT to Veritas, here's the storage market lowdown

    The player appears positioned against Apple's mega-popular iPod and holds more songs, plays them at better quality and has a longer battery life. The iPod uses a Toshiba microdrive.iPod production is limited by manufacturing delays.

Latest Features

  • Opinion: iPod therefore iCan steal

    At the top end of the market, digital jukeboxes with storage of 20GB start at under 150 while a 60GB Apple iPod Video player can be had for just 300. As this requires a reasonable bandwidth to get several programs, it is not unreasonable to expect…
  • For Apple, '05 a landmark year

    From the Shuffle and iPod video to the new iPod nano, analysts raved about the portable music player -- even saying it had reached iconic status.Apple also turned its attention to the mobile phone market in 2005.
  • Gruvi SanDisk fuels flash fire

    The iPod Nano famously uses Samsung flash to enable its wafer-thin dimensions compared to its micro HDD-using big brother. With the mobile phone, hand-held games, music player, etc.mobile hand-held market in its infancy as far as removable memory…
  • One-inch hard disks offer both promise and threat

    The risk is not just deliberate data theft - you can do that with an iPod. Video players are a fairly low volume - the difficulty is the size of video content and getting it onto the player, plus the size of screen - video is not as simple to use…
  • Get small to get big

    MP3 players and PDAs are both getting disk drives, particularly following on from the success of Apple's iPod. HGST supplies drives for Dell's MP3 player and this business is expected to grow, with personal video recorders being another product…
 

How-Tos

  • How to convert your vinyl records to MP3

    Many of us have collections of vinyl tucked away in the loft – records we never listen to because weve packed away our old turntable and replaced it with a CD player or iPod. As well as the basic USB turntable shown above right, it offers versions…
  • Pack a mobile office

    It's not as nice as Apple's iPod, but it's one less thing to carry.One vital road-warrior tool is a pair of noise-cancelling headphones, which make a huge difference in reducing fatigue from long plane rides.

Reviews

  • ViewSonic VPD400

    At £92 inc VAT, the ViewSonic VPD400 is more affordable than the 16GB iPod touch, but you must be willing to make a few compromises. Unlike the iPod and Zune, the VPD400 MovieBook HD doesn't have a touchscreen or Wi-Fi, and its design isn't the…
  • Olive Opus No.4

    The colour LCD makes navigating through music stored on the player's 1TB internal hard drive a breeze — looking at the screen from a distance gives you the impression you're using an over-sized Apple iPod.
  • Interead Cool-ER

    Skinny (0.43 inch thick), lightweight (6.3 ounces), and available in eight cheery colors, this ebook reader resembles an overgrown iPod, not a bad role model for industrial design. Skinny (0.43 inch thick), lightweight (6.3 ounces), and available…
  • Memorex miniMove Portable Boombox

    The Memorex miniMove Portable Boombox is a portable radio and iPod dock that's shaped like a handbag and designed to be taken out and about to the park or the beach. The Memorex miniMove Portable Boombox is a portable radio and iPod dock that's…
  • Philips GoGear Opus 8GB review

    The Philips GoGear Opus 8GB interface is pretty intuitive too, following the usual sub-folder method familiar to all MP3 veterans.Song loading and battery charging are both achieved via USB 2.0 - simply plug the Opus in and either drag and drop…
  • Philips Streamium NP2900 review

    We also liked the fact that this is a proper internet radio and network music player with all the controls built into the device itself - a more satisfactory setup than an iPod dock. Philips describes its Philips Streamium NP2900 network music…

White Papers

  • Executive Guide to Internal Data Theft

    But what can possibly be dangerous about the latest iPod? But what if that iPod isn't used to carry songs, but instead has 60GB of your customer databases, financial records and HR files on it? After all, an MP3 player is just a big hard disk.
 
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