Posts Tagged ‘iPod’
It’s probably safe to say that price comparison sites are getting a little tedious. Of course they can be useful for things like car insurance, but nonetheless there has been such an explosion of such sites, and their accompanying TV adverts, in recent months that it can be easy to switch off when hearing about a new one. Well, Tunechecker.com looks to be that very rare thing which goes against the grain: a welcome and essential new price comparison site.
The site is pretty simple and does exactly what you’d expect – providing price comparison services for individual songs and albums from all the major online music retailers, from iTunes to Tesco. With the market being extremely variable (the current info shows…
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I’d like to start this post with a little run through some of the biggest general successes in the web and technology sphere of the past few years, and Apple’s entries for each of the relevant markets. Portable mp3 devices for example have been pretty big – in particular the definitive iPod from Apple, while, also in the handheld market, smart-phones such as the recent iPhone also from Apple have done well. Sure Blackberry et al are popular – but no matter which way you turn it, Apple’s iPhone seems to attract far more media attention (and market share) than most of its competitors, as does the iPod.
We could go on – in the desktop market Apple offers the iMac,…
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So, Microsoft’s 30Gb Zune players can’t handle leap years. That’s the reason why many of them froze yesterday morning just as the 366-day year of 2008 was coming to a close. Most users simply let the battery drain before turning their Zunes back on again and, hey presto, everything’s back to normal. But could this short term oversight point to a more long term issue? Why was the leap year neglected in the product developers’ minds?
Well, the 30Gb model that features the leap year glitch was launched back in February of 2006, meaning it was in development probably as early as 2005 if not before – a whole three years before the next leap year would come around. Now in…
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The age-old dispute (well it certainly feels like it) over illegal music downloading – despite years of legal wrangling, scaremongering lawsuits, Napster, Limewire and all the rest of it, there is still a huge amount of work remaining to be done before all the various interested parties here are satisfied. However, there is now talk in Westminster of introducing a new solution which might ’solve the problem’ (if only things were so simple). So question is what is it – and could it work?
The premise is fairly simple – driven by a direct reconfiguration of responsibilities and re-direction of revenue streams. Basically ISP’s would be made liable for illegal file-sharing, but in return for accepting this burden (and incentive to…
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I have been thinking lately about our reliance on portable gadgets to provide distraction and entertainment in situations where a decade or two ago people would have had none. I am talking about the moments on the move perhaps, or on public transport, where we plug in our iPods for a bit of music, or get some handheld device or other out to do a bit of work – or play the odd game.
Now this is nothing new – it’s many years since the Nintendo Gameboy made handheld entertainment a very everyday thing. And Walkmans have provided us with music on the move for even longer. The nature of today’s handheld device is different only in terms of the specs…
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