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...Indeed, censorship remains pervasive. After the school's musicians put on a stirring performance, belting out rousing odes to school and country backed by electric guitars, Rhee Jin Hyuk, a spiky haired drummer, mentions that he owns an MP3 player. But he claims not to have heard of rap music, or even the Beatles. The only tunes he plays are North Korea's version of pop, a chirpy, heavily synthesized sort of muzak that sounds like it was composed in the 1950s. "I want to be a musician in a military propaganda unit," he tells us. Choe, our minder, says...
Sure, with your cell phone, MP3 player and BlackBerry, you probably think you have enough gadgets in your life. But here are innovations that even the most weary of consumers can appreciate. From a game controller you swing like a racquet to software that can translate your speech into Chinese, a few of the coolest things out there...
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...
...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...