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...more than 60% of revenues (but lost $339 million last year), has been beset by successful competitors, ranging from Sharp televisions to Kodak digital cameras, in virtually all its product lines. Most humiliating: Sony lost its leadership in portable music players by failing to capitalize on the popularity of MP3 files--a gap that Apple's iPod has exploited masterfully. The company has been in turmoil ever since April 2003's "Sony shock," when it announced drastically lower sales and earnings. Its stock has dropped 66% over the past five years...
Zuckerberg and his close friend Adam D’Angelo developed an artificially intelligent piece for an mp3 player in the spring of their senior year at Exeter. The plug-in generates playlists catered to a user’s musical tastes. Zuckerberg and D’Angelo called the program Synapse. Soon enough Slashdot.com, a widely read tech-blog, wrote a blurb about it, inspiring Winamp, Microsoft, and a number of other companies to send buy-out offers Zuckerberg?...
This kind of tech populism is most famously successful in the case of Winamp, the mp3 player developed by Zuckerberg’s childhood hero, Justin Frankel. Tech populism is, at least at first, anti-corporate. It’s about sticking with a creative vision and making something that people will love...
...Creative Labs is introducing wireless headphones and an adapter for its Zen Micro that uses a technology called magnetic induction for a clean signal and long battery life. The kit will be available this spring for $150, possibly along with a universal wireless kit for other MP3 players. Motorola and Toshiba are both launching wireless wraparound headphones that use Bluetooth wireless networking to connect to laptops and cell phones, and HP recently introduced a similar pair, primarily for use with its iPaq PDAs. When MP3 players eventually add Bluetooth connectivity to their features, partnering them with one of these headsets...
...Officer dispatched to Dunster House on a report of a stolen Hewlett Packard Pavilion laptop computer, a black laptop carry case, an MP3 player, a computer mouse and cables all valued...