Category: Portable Audio
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U2’s Participation in iPod + iTunes Ads Debated
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEdna Gunderson from USA Today reported on a debate among U2’s older fans about the merits of the band’s participation in the iPod + iTunes Vertigo ad. I didn’t start listening to U2 until the early 1990s, so I never really understood the anti-corporate tendencies that the band and their fan…
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iPod Photo Makes a Good Impression on Reviewers at WSJ
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWalter Mossberg and Katie Boehret of The Wall Street Journal tried the 40-Gigabyte iPod Photo, Apple’s new device for digital music and photo storage. They liked it for the reasons that they’ve liked every other iPod: superior user interface. According to the article: …The iPod Photo was just as easy, and…
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Hearing Aids as High-End Digital Electronics
Reading Time: 2 minutesOticon Syncro hearing aids: When will these products start beingmarketed like other high-end digital electronics? [ Photo: Oticon ] This morning, my father Ernie Aiello and I were catching up with each other on the telephone. He told me that he just received a pair of Oticon Syncro hearing aids from a…
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Portable Speaker Systems for the iPod Compared
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Associated Press published a comparison of five portable speaker systems for the iPod by Dan DeLorenzo. He spent a month testing these systems in a variety of conditions with his iPod mini. The systems Dan evaluated were: Bose SoundDock, JBL On Stage, Creative Labs TravelSound, Altec Lansing InMotion Portable Speaker…
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Podcasting Howto Published by Engadget
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEngadget published an excellent podcasting howto by Phillip Torreone. The article includes: an explanation of podcasting, instructions on where to get podcasts, how to get podcasts onto your iPod from your PC or Macintosh, and podcast production tips for Mac users. One of the best features of Phililp’s howto is the…
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Sirius Satellite Radio Signs Howard Stern, Show Will Debut in January 2006
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Associated Press reported that Howard Stern has announced that he will be joining Sirius Satellite Radio beginning in January 2006. At that time he will leave Infinity Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Viacom, the current syndicator of his program. I was listening AM radio this morning while working in my office, and…
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iPods Everywhere on the “E” Train
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTuesday night I went into Manhattan to meet Stefan Kulla and Sascha Bereksasi for dinner. They’re friends of mine from Germany who were passing through New York on the way home to Frankfurt. I rode the “E” Train from The World Trade Center to 34th Street at about 6:30pm. As the…
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PVRblog Provides a Different Perspective on the XM PCR-TimeTrax Controversy
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast week, I said that the big reason why XM Satellite Radio pulled the XM PCR PC-based radio off the market was that the added feature of MP3-conversion was a political liability in their larger fight against music royalties. Matt Haughey wrote an article for PVRblog that looks at the situation…
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XM Radio Takes PC-based Access Device Off the Market
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCNET News.com reported that XM Satellite Radio pulled its XM PCR PC-based radio from the market after learning that a software product has been released that allows its broadcasts to automatically be broken up into MP3 files representing individual songs. TimeTrax software from NeroSoft makes this possible. But, it is also…