Jul 31 - By Erin Carlson, AP Writer
Dave Legeret silently fumed as the man seated beside him on the plane blasted techno music on his iPod at full volume.
May 9 - By Kathy Matheson, AP Writer
When you're done loading your iPod with Better than Ezra and Carlos Santana, why not try a little Ezra Pound or William Carlos Williams?
Apr 27 - By Rebecca Boone, AP Writer
Banning baseball caps during tests was obvious — students were writing the answers under the brim. Then, schools started banning cell phones, realizing students could text message the answers to each other.
Dec 27 - By Jordan Robertson, AP Writer
Swarms of online shoppers armed with new iPods and iTunes gift cards apparently overwhelmed Apple's iTunes music store over the holiday, prompting error messages and slowdowns of 20 minutes or more for downloads of a single song.
Nov 29 - By Raphael G. Satter, AP Writer
Britain is legalizing the small wireless transmitters commonly used to play music from iPods over car radios.
Nov 28 - By Ted Bridis, AP Writer
The Bush administration wants North Korea's attention, so like a scolding parent it's trying to make it tougher for that country's eccentric leader to buy iPods, plasma televisions and Segway electric scooters. The U.S. government's first-ever effort to use trade sanctions to personally aggravate a foreign president expressly targets items believed to be favored by Kim Jong Il or presented by him as gifts to the roughly 600 loyalist families who run the communist government.
Nov 18 - By Associated Press
An iPod screen glowing in the middle of the night from thick underbrush led rescuers to a mushroom picker lost in the woods.
Oct 24 - By May Wong, AP Technology Writer
A hacker known for cracking the copy-protection technology in DVDs claims to have unlocked the playback restrictions of Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod and iTunes music products and plans to license his code to others.
Oct 12 - By Associated Press
Three New York men are charged with stealing 39 iPods by stashing them in a special pair of oversized jeans that didn't trigger security detectors at a Target store, police said. "On the video you can see them walk out of the store cool as a cucumber," Riverdale Police Chief Dave Hansen said.
Aug 31 - By Yuri Kageyama, AP Business Writer
The new Japanese robot Miuro turns an iPod music player into a dancing boombox-on-wheels. The 14-inch-long machine from ZMP Inc. blares music as it rolls and twists from room to room. The robot, which looks like a ball popping out of an egg, has a speaker system from Kenwood Corp.
Jun 19 - By Pat Graham, AP Sports Writer
Three hours before a start against Florida, Colorado Rockies pitcher Jason Jennings sits in front of his locker, puts on his headphones and stares at his video iPod.
May 23 - By May Wong, AP Technology Writer
Nike Inc. and Apple Computer Inc. have teamed up to try to become a runner's best friend.
May 15 - By May Wong, AP Technology Writer
Creative Technology Ltd., a maker of portable media players, sued Apple Computer Inc. in federal court and filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission on Monday accusing the iPod maker of infringing on one of Creative's patents.
Mar 29 - By May Wong, AP Technology Writer
In a world where hearing problems are real, concerns are mounting and lawyers are looking to make gadget providers liable, Apple Computer Inc. — the maker of the predominant iPod music player — has created new volume controls.
Mar 18 - By Greg Bluestein, AP Writer
The campus of Georgia College & State University boasts traditional college fare — spacious greens, historic architecture and a steady stream of students with the familiar white headphones of iPods dangling from their ears. But here in the antebellum capital of Georgia, students listening to iPods might just as well be studying for calculus class as rocking out to Coldplay — after the school's educators worked to find more strategic uses for the popular digital music and video players.
Mar 18 - By Greg Bluestein, AP Writer
The campus of Georgia College & State University boasts traditional college fare: spacious greens, historic architecture and a steady stream of students with the familiar white headphones of iPods dangling from their ears.
Feb 13 - By Anne D'Innocenzio, AP Business Writer
After bemoaning the emergence of the iPod as children's latest must-have toy, toy makers are now looking at the digital musical player as their own marketing strategy.
Feb 7 - By May Wong, AP Technology Writer
As competitors continue leaving the portable audio player market, Apple Computer Inc. beefed up its iPod product mix Tuesday with a new 1-gigabyte version of the nano and lower-priced shuffles.
Feb 6 - By Associated Press
Psychology students and fans of Apple's popular iPod can now listen and learn at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Calvin Garbin is one of the first instructors at the university to harness iPod's versatility and use it as an educational tool.
Feb 1 - By Dan Goodin, AP Technology Writer
A Louisiana man claims in a lawsuit that Apple's iPod music player can cause hearing loss in people who use it.