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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You don&#39;t have to look around for long to see that Apple&#39;s (AAPL ; S&amp;P investment rank, 3 STARS, hold; recent price, $67.21) iPod digital music player has made waves in pop culture.
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Taking us through the highlights of each of the new iPods, David Pogue (New York Times) anoints them âthe best players you can buy.â iPod touch, for example, offers âthe iPhoneâs spectacular widescreen video playback, wireless Wi-Fi Internet features and its now-famous two-finger touchscreen operating system.â And wireless access to iTunes:  âYou can browse or search the catalog, listen to 30-second samples, buy songs for $1 eachâand download them directly to the iPod.â These iPods, Pogue says, âare nearly impossible to beat; there are other 160-gigabyte multimedia players, for example, but theyâre much bigger and more expensive than the iPod classic. And if you do value things like beauty, software elegance and trouble-free computer integrationâwell, good luck resisting that new Nano.â
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LOS ANGELES, California, United States of America - Richard Branson&#39;s Virgin Group said Monday it was jumping into online music, with a &quot;Digital Megastore&quot; for US customers offering song downloads for 99 cents.
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Virgin has today launched a music download service that will go head to head with established players including iTunes and Napster.
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p2pnet.net News:- Virgin Electronics has joined the mp3 race with a $250, five gig player which also handles Microsoft&#39;s WMA format.
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Enter practically any electronics store and you&#39;re likely to find a digital music player from Apple. It&#39;s called the iPod and it weighs only a few ounces, but to its competitors it&#39;s the 800-pound white gorilla.
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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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roundup Pocket DJ 5 has bigger drive, smaller price tag. Virgin's got a tiny tunesmith, too.
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APPLE has introduced a new larger-capacity iPod with a colour display as well as a first-of-its-kind digital compendium of the rock band U2&#39;s songs.
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With all the splash and glitz of a Hollywood premiere, Apple Computer this week introduced the latest version of its popular iPod music player.
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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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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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&#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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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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Virgin Electronics, the consumer electronics arm of Richard Branson's Virgin Group,  on Tuesday unveiled a new portable music player to compete directly with Apple Computer Inc.'s  popular iPod mini player.
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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.