Competitors to Apple&#39;s iPod portable player face the Christmas ...
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Lauren, 11, saunters nonchalantly past a Discovery Channel store and a Gymboree clothing store at the mall. Suddenly, the girl&#39;s eyes light up and she pulls her mother into an Apple Computer shop.
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Retailers expected Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod music player to be a hot item this holiday season but are still struggling to keep up with demand.
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Virgin Electronics hopes its slim Virgin Player, which debuts today and is smaller than a deck of cards, will rise as a lead competitor to Apple's iPod.
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The race is on to create a gadget to outgun the iPod - playing not only music but movies - and usurp it as the ultimate icon for Christmas shoppers.
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Here are some of the toys expected to be top sellers this Christmas. The list is based on Toy Wishes&#39; editorial board&#39;s review of thousands of toys and interviews with parents, children and retailers.
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Gearing up for the holidays, Apple is coming up with new versions of its leading musical products.
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Millions of people will buy or receive Apple Computerâs iPod digital-music players this holiday season. They are beautifully designed and easy to use.
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According to the Mercury News, the hot selling Apple iPod has been in very short supply this holiday season as sales take off. &quot;The colorful 4-gigabyte iPod mini and the 20-gigabyte iPod are sold out at Amazon.
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IDC says there's tough competition ahead for the iPod as manufacturers launch rival portable jukeboxes.
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Apple&#39;s iTunes Music Store is causing a bit of a stir by refusing to sell the charity Band Aid song &quot;Do They Know It&#39;s Christmas?
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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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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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IF YOU are heading for Japan in December, here&#39;s something that you may want to include in your shopping list. Sony&#39;s PlayStation Portable, which will mark the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant&#39;s
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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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Some of this year&#39;s products: iPod copycats, iPod copycats that smell, laser pointers, Sushi discs. NEW YORK  - Sometimes the innovation elves just miss the mark.
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Apple Store customers in San Francisco test the iPod Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004. The iPod is one of the hot electronic items on the Christmas list of many a holiday shopper.
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Apple Computer may have sold more than twice as many of its iPod digital music players in its most recent quarter than its signature Mac computers, but competitors