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...listen carefully, you can hear the answer reverberating from those distinctive white "ear-bud" headphones attached to Apple Computer's iPod digital-music player. After the booming success of the iPod and Apple's iTunes Internet music store, the mobile-phone industry is keen to join the party by converting phones into mobile jukeboxes capable of storing hundreds or thousands of songs. Meanwhile, cellular-network operators are launching their own download services, hoping that by generating revenue from digital-music sales they can recoup some of the billions of dollars they've invested in high-speed, third-generation (3G) networks...
...human-rights lawyer and campaigner. Or the late Afro-beat band leader, saxophonist and political activist Fela Kuti, who sang about the ills of the government and the struggles of poor workers. Tomiwa Kukoyi Lagos I'm O.K., You're an Idiot James Poniewozik's essay "The Age of iPod Politics," about Americans' ability to fashion their own insular world, was right on target [Oct. 11]. With the smorgasbord of available media coverage of presidential politics, we can even personalize the news to jibe with our own particular reality. America's endless supply of niche media outlets has given...
Steve Jobs, ceo of Apple, argues that people won't watch movies on (very) small screens. Other companies are betting they will. So, will the new set of portable video players (PVPS), or "video iPods," that are flooding the market catch on like Apple's music gizmo? The Gmini400 from Archos, the French electronics company, speaks well for the pvp's future: the smallest such device, it can store as much as 80 hours of video and 200,000 digital photos, and lets the user play video games--all on a 2.2-in. color lcd screen. At $399, the Gmini400...
...rides up and down the elevator in the early morning hours when there isn’t much traffic, sitting on the floor, listening to his roommate’s iPod and doing his homework. “Normally I do my math,” says Lawrence, who is planning to joint concentrate in philosophy and math. His roommate, Christos Kaplanis ’08, and his Thayer neighbor, Robert D. Cecot ’08, have studied with him a few times. “It’s really cool,” Kaplanis says...
...stimulation/isolation chamber for him. “Sometimes,” Kaplanis says, “he gets really hyperactive,” which is why when people get on and off the elevator, Lawrence does not acknowledge them, but merely keeps his head in his books and his iPod in his ears, listening to a playlist which alternates between Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. “Zendrix,” Lawrence calls it, “my Zen-like playlist...