Word: mp3
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Just about everyone who owns any kind of digital portable music player owns an iPod. Variants of the Apple device have commanded over 80 percent of the mp3 player market for years, and the line has cachet above and beyond simple numbers: consider, for example, that just about every raffle on campus with a prize of significant value this year has given ticket-holders or survey-takers the opportunity to win an iPod nano. Even my parents own an iPod. The iPod-ification of America might not have caught us completely by surprise—after all, the iPod...
...will be playing a number of shows this fall, in support of her recent album, “Five Star Day,” which is available on iTunes and through links on her website, lizcarlisle.com (which also contains mp3 samples, an extended biography, a tour schedule, and a number of photo galleries...
...world and TV viewing a ubiquitous part of modern life, the commercial potential of marrying the two is enormous. TV on the phone could even help win back the eyeballs of a younger generation of gadget-oriented entertainment buffs who are spending more time with the Web, mobiles and MP3 players than they are in front of a living-room set. The O2 trial is one of dozens around the world, from Helsinki to Pittsburgh to Seoul, to test the feasibility of broadcasting TV programs to mobile phones. Lots of companies would like to see the trials succeed. Handset firms...
...Beijing Olympics. The conventional wisdom is that people will "snack" on short snatches of mobile TV and save longer viewing periods for their larger TV sets. All that, however, must still await resolution of some fairly hefty issues. Music downloading didn't take off in a mass way until MP3 compression became an industry standard, and mobile-TV operators must decide among at least four would-be mobile broadcasting standards under development. Still, one look at Gina Policelli's face tells you why so many companies are vying to dominate the mobile-TV space. "I would pay for this." When...
...Nano started nine months ago, when Jobs and his team took a look at the iPod Mini and decided they could make it better. On the face of it, that wouldn't appear to be a fantastically smart decision. The iPod Mini was and still is the best-selling MP3 player in the world, and Apple had introduced it only 11 months earlier. Jobs was proposing to fix something that decidedly was not broken. "Not very many companies are bold enough to shoot their best-selling product at the peak of its popularity," Gartner analyst Van Baker says. "That...