| Enter the Zune for fight to the death with iPod | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:24:31 AM by Blog57 Team | | IT IS the hotly awaited music player from Microsoft that the software giant hopes will become the iPod killer. But British fans will have to pay £230 to get their hands on an early version of a Zune. The 30-gigabyte Zune, which stores up to 7,500 songs, 25,000 pictures or 100 hours of video, was introduced in the US yesterday. It sports a wireless feature that allows users to import their iTunes music collection and ?beam? songs to each other. .... | |
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| | | SKY MobileMedia Announces Pre-integrated SKY-MAP Software Solutions on Texas Instruments' ``LoCosto'' and OMAP-Vox(TM) | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 11:39:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | BEIJING, BUSINESS WIRE -- SKY MobileMedia, Inc., a leading provider of application software solutions for the wireless industry, today announced pre-integration of the SKY-MAP(TM) Mobile Applications Software Platform with Texas Instruments' "LoCosto" single chip platform and OMAP-Vox product family. These complete hardware plus software solutions are both on display at the TI China Wireless Summit today at the China World Hotel in Beijing. As a member of Texas Instruments' application suite ecosystem, SKY provides complete and customizable applications solutions that scale to fit the market segments targeted by each of TI's wireless chipset platforms. "With software accounting for 75 percent or more of handset R&D and integration costs, handset OEMs are increasingly looking for pre-integrated software and hardware solutions to simplify handset development," said Naser Partovi, CEO of SKY MobileMedia.... | |
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| | | Texas Instruments Single-Chip Cell Phone Technology Will Make ... | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 1:50:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | DALLAS and BEIJING, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- During a summit of wireless industry leaders held today in Beijing, China, Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN - News; TI) announced a new OMAP-Vox(TM) single-chip solution to foster development of lower-cost multimedia-rich feature phones. Codenamed "eCosto," the new single-chip platform is leveraging TI's innovative DRP(TM) technology which is successful with the "LoCosto" value platform in volume production today. The "eCosto" platform also leverages the multimedia capabilities of the OMAP-Vox platform in volume production today with the OMAPV1030 solution. The first product in the new "eCosto" platform will be the OMAPV1035 single-chip solution, which will be manufactured in 65-nanometer (nm) and will support GSM, GPRS and EDGE standards.... | |
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| | | Water cooler | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 3:34:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | What's the latest and greatest news heard around the water cooler? Nov. 5, 2006 SRAM watch Fusion, an independent distributor, on the SRAM market: "The lead times for almost all Cypress SRAM have been pushed out to 20 + weeks with no solution in site. To make matters worse, much of Cypress & Samsung's time is going to be tied up in questions of Anti-trust violations, dealing with a Department of Justice probe into allegations of price fixing." NOR Way "Intel trimmed down their line of StrataFlash and has finally gotten production & deliveries of their Nor Flash products under control with reasonable lead times," according to Fusion. "Spansion on the other hand is recently struggling to meet delivery dates and is starting to push out lead times.... | |
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| | | FOX19 Podcasts | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 7:10:49 AM by Blog57 Team | | FOX19CASTING (aka podcasting) is a way to get audio files over the Internet. FOX19CAST delivers audio broadcasts to your desktop with the click of your mouse. You can listen to these files on your computer or load them on to your MP3 player to take them with you. LISTEN NOW: To listen to a specific FOX19CAST segment, simply click on an available title below and the MP3 file will play directly on your computer. TAKE IT TO GO: All you need to get started is some software. Once you download and install it, simply click on the icon (or right-click/option-click for a shortcut) for the feed you want then copy the URL from the address bar of your browser (or from your clipboard) and paste it into your podcasting application. The software will automatically check for updates and download the files to your computer so you can load them onto your MP3 player.... | |
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| | | US consumers to buy 100 million MP3 players by 2011 | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 7:23:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | A new report from Jupiter Research predicts that in the US alone, over 100 million portable MP3 players will be in use by 2011. The 'US Portable Music Device Forecast, 2006 to 2011' concept report forecasts what the company says will be a "dramatic slowdown" in the sales of MP3 players, followed by steady expansion through 2011. The report comes as Microsoft prepares to launch its highly-anticipated Zune player on November 14, just weeks after SanDisk and Apple rolled out major upgrades to their MP3 players. One company that may not feel the predicted slowdown is iPod maker Apple Computers. Jupiter vice president and research director Michael Gartenberg says that Apple's customers have come to expect and support regular product upgrades, making them more frequent buyers.... | |
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| | | Unlocking the iPod | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 11:11:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | Growing up in a small town in southern Norway, Jon Lech Johansen loved to take things apart to figure out how they worked. Unlike most kids, though, he'd put them back together better than they were before. When he was 14, his father bought a digital camera that came with buggy software, so Jon analyzed the code and wrote a program that worked better. .... | |
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| | | Free Software Streamlines Download Audiobook Use | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:16:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | OverDrive, Inc., a leading digital media distributor, announced today the release of Version 2.1 of OverDrive Media Console, free PC desktop software that enables download, management, and playback of digital audiobooks, music, and video. This free upgrade includes "Transfer Wizard," a feature that with two mouse clicks transfers a downloaded audiobook from a PC to supported portable MP3 players, PDAs, or mobile phones. OverDrive Media Console has earned widespread praise for its ease of use for downloading audiobooks offered at websites of over 4,000 libraries using OverDrive Digital Library services including The New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, Los Angeles Public Library, Boston Public Library and thousands of others. With a PC, Internet connection, and a library card, patrons can download audio books, eBooks, music and videos to their Windows-based PC, laptop or portable device.... | |
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| | | Rent, don't buy, is tune-purveyor Rhapsody's theme | | Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 1:12:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | My music collection has been stuck in the mid-1980s, aside from occasional Gorillaz and Daddy Yankee infusions, and modernizing it is expensive and time consuming. Internet-based music "subscription" services are supposed to help solve this common problem. Unlike services such as Apple Computer's iTunes Store that sell music for download, subscription services let users sample massive amounts of music on PCs or portable devices for small monthly fees. Users are renting all this music, in essence. I recently tested a top subscription service, RealNetworks' Rhapsody, in tandem with several Rhapsody-friendly devices. One gizmo, SanDisk's Sansa e200R-series player, let me take my rented tunes on the road. Another product, Sonos' stylish Digital Music System, allowed me to tap into the music service via a home computer network.... | |
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| | | Disk Encryption Software addresses endpoint security. | | Posted Sunday, October 15, 2006 7:08:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | Private Disk protects data on Windows PCs and USB storage devices by creating virtual encrypted disks. Combining NIST-certified encryption, disk firewall mechanism, 64-bit platform compatibility, and USB disk portability, it guards against internal and external threats with malware and vulnerability-based detection. Software also helps comply with industry and regulatory mandates and creates compressed encrypted backups of protected data to facilitate disaster recovery. .... | |
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