Word: mp3
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...next time students are jamming to 50 Cent on their MP3 players, they might want to refrain from blasting the song at full volume...
...Simon Hossell, European sales director of Gracenote, the company that codes and sorts music on Apple's iPod and most MP3 players, says the technology performs with better than 90% accuracy on a 3- to 5-second sample. "I have been in a bar that was so noisy all I could detect was a guitar chord - and that was enough," he says. Gracenote's MMID database includes more than 10 million musical fingerprints, and Track ID works at any point in the song. Now if only my Track ID-enabled phone could identify the acquaintance whose name slipped my mind...
...much as it feels like a book, the Reader can still perform digital tricks. It is probably the first Sony product to read MP3 files that have been copied to an SD card, for instance. (It is one of the first Sony products to use SD cards as well as its own Memory Stick format.) I like to listen to classical music while I read ? here the book and the background music come in one device. The Reader can also handle photos, so throw a few photos into its internal memory if you must, but save your slideshows for your...
...electric goodness in a dance-off. Samir J. Paul ’10, a participant in the booty-shaking bonanza, explains why he was willing to put his money maker on the line for an iPod. “The iPod has a cultural cachet that few other MP3 players can even dream of competing with,” he says. And thus the tiny music player lured him to do something that only two others were willing to do. Indeed, Crimson Key undertook the competition for two reasons. “We were trying to give the audience some...
...their Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerrys as "CrackBerrys," the addiction hasn't spread to ordinary consumers. But the new BlackBerry Pearl is the company's first serious attempt to hook the masses with features that high-paid professionals and businesspeople disdain--a built-in camera and an integrated MP3 player. T-Mobile, known for its low rates, is the Pearl's initial carrier. The Pearl costs $200 after rebates; unlimited e-mail and Web-browsing service will cost $20 a month, provided it's coupled with any standard voice plan. A 600-min. plan will cost $60 a month...