Category: Portable Audio
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I Bought My Wife an iPod for Christmas
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the less well-kept secrets around the Home Office leading up to Christmas was the “big gift” that I gave to my wife. I gave her a 10 Gigabyte iPod that I bought at the Apple Store at Menlo Park Mall in Edison, NJ. I probably would have bought the iPod…
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Satellite Radio Unit Sales are Increasing
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn Saturday, The Washington Post reported that Satellite Radio unit sales are on the rise, fueled by a variety of new receivers and more flexible subscription plans. According to the article: Neither company is ready to release holiday sales figures, but Washington’s XM Satellite Radio Inc. expects to have 1.2 million…
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SEC Filing Says Apple Computer Sold 1.79 iPods Per Minute in 2003
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday, MacMinute reported that Apple Computer’s 10K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicates that they sold 939,000 iPods in their 2003 fiscal year. That works out to 1.79 iPods per minute, or one iPod every 34 seconds. A lot of consumer electronics companies would kill for portable audio sales…
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NY Times Compares Satellite Radio Systems
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast week, The New York Times Circuits Column reported on satellite radio systems provided by XM Satellite Radio and SIRIUS. David Pogue loves satellite radio, despite the fact that it’s another service with another monthly service fee: The result is a strange, intriguing hybrid sound source. Thanks to the lack of…
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ZDNet Compares the 20GB iPod to its Competitors
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMartin O’Donnell passed along this comparison chart of the Apple iPod 20 Gigabyte model and its main competitors, the iRiver iHP-120, the Samsung Napster YP-910GS, the 15 Gigabyte Dell Digital Jukebox DJ, and the Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen NX. The chart was created by ZDNet. We had a long discussion the…
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New York Times Magazine Runs Great Piece on Apple Computer’s iPod
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI am surprised that more weblogs have not pointed to the New York Times Magazine article from the November 30, 2003 edition, entitled The Guts of a New Machine. This is an article about the pervasive influence that the iPod has had on popular culture and industrial design. iPods are not…
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Apple Tech Note Acknowledges Battery Status Indicator Problem on Some New iPods
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI want to go to bed, but the news just keeps on breaking…. Macworld UK reported that Apple Computer has acknowledged that some “new-generation” iPods are experiencing problems with the power level reported by the battery status indicator. They did this in a revised tech note, iPod: The Battery Status Indicator…
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Rio Karma Portable Audio Player Reviewed by PhatAudio
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI saw an article on Slashdot that says that PhatAudio.org has posted a review of the Rio Karma portable audio player. I wasn’t able to read it immediately because it was slashdotted. According to the Slashdot article: … besides OGG/FLAC/MP3/WMA playback, {it} has a great little dock that syncs the player…
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iPod Users Offer Their Compatriots Opportunities to “Jack In”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOver on 601am.com, Aaron Bailey pointed out the fact that Apple iPod users are offering their fellow travelers the opportunity to “jack into” their iPods to share the experience of what’s currently playing. Aaron makes reference to a Wired News news article that identified the behaviror. Aaron says: The other day,…