Sony shifts strategy to support MP3 files
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Sony to support MP3 tunes to silence iPod fans Indian Express
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Sony (NYSE: SNE) has introduced its first MP3-based flash-memory digital music players under the Walkman brand in an effort to capture a share of the portable digital music player market currently dominated by Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPod device.
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By Bernhard Warner LONDON  - Consumer electronics giant Sony Corp. said on Thursday it is mulling a major strategic shift to make digital music devices that play MP3 song files.
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Sony Electronics has released the first of its digital audio players to support the popular MP3 format, marking a significant shift in its music strategy.
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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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Sony is finally out with their first direct assault on the famed Apple iPod digital music player. As reported earlier, Sony has gone ahead and released their first MP3 supported Walkman.
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Sony also plans to release some new flash-based players with both MP3 and Atrac playback as early as this year in Europe. As for North American customers, a Sony spokesperson would not committ to a time frame for MP3 support.
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Someone at Sony has wisened up and decided to add MP3 support to their new NW-HD3 player slated for release in December. &quot;Sony is broadening support for the MP3 file format in its portable music player range.
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Sony has announced trials of a service that will offer downloadble music tracks that have no digital locks on them.
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Sony&#39;s two MP3 players, the NW-HD3 with a 20-gigabyte hard-disk drive, and the NW-E99, with a built-in 1-gigabyte flash-memory chip, go on sale December 10 in Japan.
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Hammered by iPod, Sony will retool, adding native MP3 support to some digital music players by next summer.
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MacCentral - Sony Corp. is broadening support for the MP3 file format in its portable music player range. It will introduce a new hard disk-based MP3 player in December, and will offer software upgrades for earlier players with hard disk storage so they can play MP3s too.
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Consumer electronics giant Sony Corp.  said on Thursday it is mulling a major strategic shift to make  digital music devices that play MP3 song files.
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Sony Corp. announced Tuesday a new 20 gigabyte digital music player with MP3 support that will be available in Great Britain and Japan before Christmas and elsewhere in Europe in early 2005.
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Sony embraces MP3, while new Blu-ray and speaker technology reaches the living room.
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The electronics giant will finally support the MP3 format. Is it too little, too late?
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Fans of the burgeoning technology, which lets users broadcast and download audio content feeds to MP3 players, say it represents audio broadcasting's future. But podcasting still has a long way to go. By Daniel Terdiman.