New crop of portable players nips at iPod
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PALO ALTO, Calif. - Lauren, 11, saunters nonchalantly past a Discovery Channel store and a Gymboree clothing store at the mall. Then suddenly, the girl&#39;s eyes light up and she pulls her mother into an Apple Computer Inc.
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Portable audio player manufacturers bet on smaller, simpler devices in an effort to unseat Apple's IPod.
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IN February, Apple followed up its wildly popular iPod music player with the iPod Mini. This smaller, sleeker $250 player could hold 1,000 songs and came in five brushed-aluminum colors.
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Microsoft&#39;s WMA, Apple&#39;s ACC, Sony&#39;s Altrac and others -- compete in a variety of digital music devices, support for MP3 is becoming a required ingredient for any successful portable player.
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Apple Computer followed up its wildly popular iPod music player with the iPod Mini in February. This smaller, sleeker $250 player could hold 1,000 songs and came in five brushed-aluminum colors.
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Sony launches music players with MP3 support CNET News.com
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The "shuffle" command on music players like the iPod is supposed to be a truly random way of making your way through a vast music collection. But some owners are wondering whether the iPod has a mind of its own.
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Toshiba is releasing four new portable digital music devices - one boasting a 60GB capacity - to rival Apple&#39;s iPod and iPod mini.
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Apple will be getting some stiff competition in the coming year. A slew of manufacturers will soon offer players utilizing small 1&quot; hard drives that help propel the iPod and allow them to compete more favorably in the market.
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Juliana Sasaki didnât bother checking out Sonyâs digital music player before buying her green iPod mini. &quot;I knew Sony and other companies had MP3 players, but they canât beat the mini,&quot; says Sasaki, 23, a language teacher.
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Digital music players have been hot gifts for a few years but until now, it's been a category mostly dominated by Apple Computer and its line of iPod players.
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Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday   unveiled a number of new iPods, including one with the most   capacity to date, and said new versions of the popular digital   music players would sport video games such as Pac-Man and   Tetris.
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With sales of digital music players skyrocketing, is it any wonder that hardware makers are scrambling to create the next big portable entertainment gizmo?
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Now that the iPod and its little brother, the iPod mini, have gobbled up the overwhelming majority of the MP3-player market, what&#39;s a competitor to do?
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By completely overhauling its line of iPods, Apple cements its lock on the portable-media-player market. Analysts say no one else is close in combining features with aggressive prices.
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Eight of the top 10 MP3 players sold on Amazon are iPod models.
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The MP3 player market, where the iPod Mini once stood alone, will soon have several new entries. IDC predicted last month that the segment will grow from 12.