Toy Makers Attach Products to IPod Craze

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.

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EFF: Frequently Awkward Questions for the Entertainment Industry

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a series of "tough questions" for the RIAA and MPAA to counter their "misleading talking points". The two of most interest to me are:

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Microsoft and Apple race to launch wireless downloads

I've always said ... I'm not going to buy another iPod (which will be my fourth by the way) until Apple offers a wireless one.

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Apple and Microsoft in Race for WiFi Media Player

The sad part is that Sony already came out with this device. The PSP is the perfect model of a great idea with the absolute worst execution.

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Hilary Rosen: Singing a New Song?

Wired interviews Hilary Rosen, the former head of the RIAA, about the current dispute between the RIAA and her new client, XM Radio about the home taping function on new XM devices. They also talk about suing filesharers, DRM, and the Creative Commons license.

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How the "Microsoft iPod" Might Succeed

Apple may have an 80 percent share of the mobile media-player market, but that doesn't mean the iPod is unassailable.

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Microsoft’s Christmas present for Apple: a killer...

“I know what you did last year” said Microsoft to Apple, after reviewing the disappointing market share that URGE managed to obtain.

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Rumor: MS plans free song ploy to convert iPod users

"Microsoft will still have to pay the rights-holders for the songs, but they believe it'll be worth it to acquire converts to their new player," the publication said.

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Upcoming iPod Rival To Download Music Over WiFi

Microsoft Corp. is planning to have a portable music and video player out by Christmas in a challenge to Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod.

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your mp3 player can talk with rockbox

"Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for mp3 players. It runs on a number of different models and allows those MP3 players to have their own screen reader." Why yes, I *was* trying to go for the most tags record; why do you ask?

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A Simple Explanation of Dithering For Musicians

Get the most out of your music mastering by understanding what exactly your mastering engineer does to make your music sound great! Find-out what dithering is and why it's needed.

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Hide music in your GIF pictures

The GIF format allows for an "application extension block" - an arbitrary section for applications that isn't checked by the GIF parser. Meanwhile, Winamp and other MP3 players ignore all data in the file that isn't marked as an MP3 block.

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What Exactly Does “Radio-Ready” Sound Like?

Music mastering is often described as giving music the "Radio-Ready" (or professional) sound, but what exactly does this involve?

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Friends of Indo Charity Gig

Friends of Indo bring you another great line-up of live acts at our summer rock'n'roll extravaganza. A guaranteed knees-up with all ticket profits to be donated to a London homeless charity.

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MacSpark: Altec Lansing inMotion iM5 + iM7 Mini-Review

This article was originally posted at Spark'd, a new technology review website, geared towards technology and gaming enthusiasts.

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Dutch court rules against mp3 music directory site

-- The Dutch court of appeal has overturned a 2004 ruling legitimizing zoekmp3.nl, a web site offering unauthorized links to copyrighted music run by Techno Design.

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Feathers: Beautiful freak-folk hippie music

Thanks to the internet and BoingBoing, I have just been turned onto a whole new(old) genre of music that I didn't even know existed. It is called freak-folk and is all very hippie and beautiful. It's like the summer of love all over again.

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Summer of Love Redux - New York Times

I told you there some's really cool and great music outside of the RIAA's grasp.

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Boing Boing: MOG: social networking around music

This looks really cool. It is a lot like last.fm except you can't really listen to the music onsite. It's more like a music bookmarking site, where you can publish your entire music collection online. I have about 2000 songs on my laptop, so it is taking awhile to upload.

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Toshiba Gigabeat S30 Review

A very well rounded review of a very promising Digital Media Player.

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MusicGremlin 8 GB portable Wi-Fi audio player

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MP3 player sales risk copyright breach

The public is being warned how selling your old mp3 music with music on is in fact illegal and brings you in to music piracy - the device should in fact be wiped first. Many people do not realise that they are unable to pass on or sell downloaded songs legally.

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Ode to DRM

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Microsoft developing a rival to Apple's iPod

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Microsoft readying Apple iPod rival

Microsoft Corp. is laying the groundwork to compete against Apple Computer's iPod digital entertainment device and iTunes service, sources familiar with the plans told Reuters on Friday.

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Apple's iPod faces patent probe: Routine Investigation Excites Creative?

So, let me get this straight: Creative releases a triumphant press release to announce that a perfectly routine investigation is under way when people -already- know that Creative has sued Apple?

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