Sep 14, 2006 | audio, hardware
What a week for devices! I’m worried that every week will be like this for the next few months as manufacturers fill the channels for Christmas. Keeping up will be impossible.Microsoft officially unveiled the Zune media player. It has a slightly larger screen...
Jul 23, 2006 | audio, hardware
The tech press is all atwitter over the announcement that Microsoft plans to release a handheld music player to compete with the iPod. Microsoft will be competing with Creative and other partners that manufacture hardware based on Windows Media, Microsoft’s...
Jul 1, 2006 | Apple, audio, hardware
Interesting that the iPod is not the number one mp3 player in Asia, according to this report, which includes photos and comments on the top ten. The Creative Zen Vision:M is the market leader. I’ve been using a Creative Zen Touch for a year or two and it’s...
May 31, 2006 | audio, business, web_services
Recently I wrote some notes about Sony’s record of failure in developing consumer electronics and music products. Here’s the story behind the collapse of the Sony Connect online music store, a tangled tale of personalities and corporate politics gone...
May 28, 2006 | audio, business, DRM, web_services
The Urge music service, an iTunes competitor jointly sponsored by Microsoft and MTV, is supposed to be one of the major selling points of the new Windows Media Player 11. When I clicked on it the first time, the service asked permission to download some software. I...
