Virgin shoulders into iPod&#39;s terrain
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Virgin launched its 5 GB player, whose battery life (eight hours) and retail price ($249) both match the iPod Mini&#39;s. There are also reports of the impending release of Creative&#39;s
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Richard Branson&#39;s Virgin group said today that it would be entering the market of online music, a move which will put Virgin against other music services such as Apple iTunes, MSN Music and many other pay-per-song music services.
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Apple iTunes has even more competition on their hands. HMV has joined hands with Appleâs primary challenger in the digital music stores market Microsoft.
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Hewlett-Packard&#39;s online store, HPshopping.com, this week introduced the &quot;Apple IPod from HP,&quot; the company&#39;s long-awaited version of the IPod.
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Microsoft&#39;s effort to send a message to Apple via legions of iPod users isn&#39;t quite as elaborate as RealNetworks&#39; Freedom of Music Choice campaign, but the gist is the same.
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AS SUSPECTED, VIRGIN DIGITAL is to be launched today and Sir Richard Branson, the overseer of the Virgin group, said it will include over a million tracks and compatibility with 50 plus portable gizmos.
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Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, today announced the launch of Virgin Digital, which will enter an increasingly competitive market for digital downloads.
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Richard Branson&#39;s Virgin Digital went live today offering some 1,000,000 tracks - This being 250,000 more than iTunes. In March Branson said he will be adding digital music to his Virgin brand at the time
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Virgin Group Ltd. on Monday launched its online music store, pitting the retailer best known for its music &quot;megastores&quot; with tech companies such as Apple Computer Inc.
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TechWeb - Virgin Group Ltd. on Monday launched its online music store, pitting the retailer best known for its music &quot;megastores&quot; with tech companies such as Apple Computer Inc., which operates the most popular digital music service.
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Microsoft&#39;s recently released Media Player 10 is being hailed by some reviewers as the first real challenge to Apple&#39;s dominance in the online music space.
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Richard Branson's Virgin Group said it was jumping into the increasingly crowded market for online music, with a &quot;Digital Megastore&quot; offering US customers song downloads for 99 cents.
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October 17, 2004 -- While companies take aim at iPod with a host of new players, they&#39;re also targeting iTunes, Apple&#39;s online music store.
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Reviewing iTunes 7 and the new line of iPods, David Pogue writes for the New York Times, you can&#146;t &#147;find a better online music store, or a free jukebox program as powerful and clean as iTunes. And you certainly won&#146;t find a music player that beats the new iPods in polish, capacity or even price. They come dazzlingly close to perfection.&#148;
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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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Just when it seemed like the competition was encroaching on the iPod&#39;s turf, Apple has broken away from the pack with a new and improved version of its hugely popular portable media player.
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Creative Technology is firing a shot across Apple's digital music bow.