Belkin debuts TuneBase FM for iPod Mini
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IPod mini portable music player users can power, charge and play the contents of their devices simultaneously while in their automobiles.
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DLO has launched an iPhone application that lets you find open FM frequencies for your iPod or iPhone-compatible FM transmitter.
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Furthering its efforts to provide a low-cost alternative to Apple's iPod, Dell has unveiled a slimmed down version of its Digital Jukebox portable music player. The Pocket DJ 5 sports a 4.4-ounce silver and black form factor, with a 5GB hard drive capable of holding 2,500 MP3 and Windows Media songs. Dell also updated its 20GB DJ model with the same sleek design, as well as a new interface for loading music. The Pocket DJ 5 will sell for $199 USD - $50 less than the iPod mini; the 20GB DJ will be offered at $249.
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In the coming weeks and months you'll probably see me writing about issues of podcatchers here, because I'm working on one. It's the third one I've written, so this time maybe I'll get it right.  A lot of things have changed since I wrote my first podcatcher back in 2001. 1. Back then there were no podcasts, so it was a proof of concept, a chicken without an egg (or an egg with no chicken), a step in a bootstrap. Today there are lots of podcasts. An embarassment of riches. 2. Back then implementing a podcatcher was simple, there was exactly one format to support, RSS 2.0 with enclosures. Today, luckily, it's still fairly simple, as far as the format goes. The only variability is the iTunes namespace, which complicates things, just a little.  3. Today there are enough users to make it possible to support lists of podcasts published by fans, and instead of just subscribing to the podcast feeds, you can subscribe to lists of feeds. I will publish one of these lists, in OPML 2.0 format, as a proof of concept.  4. The first version of this new podcatcher will run in the OPML Editor because that's where all my software runs at first. But the goal is to port it to run in other environments, some with millions of users. I want to provide a popular alternative to the one that Apple publishes which currently dominates the market. (Note: I'm generally pleased with the way Apple dominates, they've been very fair about allowing users to export their subscription lists. But if we want to create the opportunity for others to innovate in the area of podcast players, there has to be choice at the podcatcher level. That's my main motive for revisiting this area.) There probably are some other changes, and I'll write about them as the project moves forward. Now.... To people who say that Apple has the market sewn up, I say Bah! I think iPods are great, but they're designed to play music, not podcasts. Every bit of music is something you want to keep forever, a podcast loses almost all its value after you've listened to it once. You have to pay for music (in theory at least) but podcasts are free.  Podcasts beg to have a player that can download them without synching with a desktop computer. Okay that's something podcasts have in common with music.  I buy Apple products all the time. I've gone from resenting Apple so much that I wouldn't buy their products, as recently as 2005, to today when not only do I only use Macs, but I'm constantly telling people why they'd be better off using Macs. I can't help but evangelize the products, I think they're that much better than Windows PCs.  But as much as I love Apple (can't believe I actually said that) I still don't trust them with a whole medium. We need them to have competition. The rest of the tech industry seems to think they're immune to it, that creates a huge opportunity with someone with enough chutzpah to think they can do it. Yours truly, Dave Winer
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MacCentral - RealNetworks will tout its new Windows-only Harmony technology, which allows files from its music store to be played on Apple's iPod, in a series of print, radio and online advertising, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. In addition, Real will hold what it calls the biggest music sale in history selling songs for US&#36;0.49 and albums for &#36;4.99.
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After you've joined the music revolution and plunked down &#36;250 for an Apple iPod mini, it's easy to become quite protective of the little gizmo.
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Playlist reviewer finds good sound in relatively expensive iPod accessory.
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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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Variety - (Variety) &#151; If the iPod and TiVo got together and had a kid, the result would be MyFi -- a portable music device that might just be satellite radio's killer app.
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A new generation of smaller, sleeker and cheaper MP3 players from the likes of Sony, Rio, Creative and Rave MP are hitting the market this fall, and they all have Apple Computer&#39;s white-hot digital music player in their sights.
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&#147;The Apple iPod mini, at $249, is my choice as 2004&#146;s hottest high-tech gadget,&#148; writes Mike Wendland in the Detroit Free Press. &#147;All of the iPods are awesome. But this little package, weighing in at 3.6 ounces, a half-inch thick and the size of a business card, is so slick and so sleek that all I can say is: Sweet &#133; And it delivers a sound quality so big and so pristine that it&#146;s hard to believe it&#146;s coming from something so tiny. It&#146;s cutting-edge, high-tech chicness.&#148; [Dec 10]
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Sure, the soon-to-hit-the-shelves iPod Touch plays music and offers users a cool multitouch interface like its cousin, the iPhone. But it's the inclusion of Wi-Fi and Safari that makes it revolutionary, says Computerworld's Seth Weintraub.
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Virgin Electronics is challenging Apple&#39;s iPod digital-music player, launching its own 5-GB device. Virgin&#39;s player can store more than 1,200 tracks and sells for $249.
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Glaskowsky reviews the Belkin TuneTalk Stereo for iPod... and a highly questionable legal policy in effect at Apple's retail stores.
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Creative has unveiled a new device called the Xmod, which is based upon the company's X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio platform and promises to improve the audio quality of compressed music, such as that purchased from Apple's iTunes or any MP3 files.
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Virgin Digital has announced their own &quot;iPod mini killer,&quot; the weirdly-named &quot;Virgin Electronics Player 5GB&quot; which features 5GB of storage (which Virgin bills as capable of holding over 1200 songs), a built in FM tuner, weight of 3.1 ounces, and dual
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Belkin announced it's shipping four new devices to enable you to charge your iPod's batteries.