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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It&#39;s ironic that in this moment of triumph for Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the greatest challenge yet to Apple&#39;s online music dominance is emerging.
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New York, September 28: British tycoon Richard Branson&#39;s Virgin Group has said it was jumping into the market for online music, with a &quot;digital megastore&quot; offering US customers song downloads for 99 cents.
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As Apple puts the finishing touches to its new London store for Saturday&#39;s grand opening, it appears that punters eager to lay their hands on the firm&#39;s iconic iPod music player when the doors open could be disappointed.
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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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com October 12, 2004, 11:27 AM PT. Despite increasing competition, Apple&#39;s iPod still rules the digital music world, according to new reports from market researchers.
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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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The online digital-music business became a little more crowded as Richard Branson&#39;s Virgin Group launched a music Web site in the US The Virgin Digital service sells songs for 99 cents each
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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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Owners of Apple Inc.&#39;s   iPod love to trick out the music players with cases, speakers  and other accessories and its upcoming wireless iPhone promises  to be no different.
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Richard Branson's Virgin Group said 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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With the announcement of the Player 5GB, Virgin Electronics has joined the growing list of vendors attempting to take some of Apple&#39;s share of the digital music player market.
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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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Virgin becomes one of the first major music retailers to enter an increasingly crowded online music market.
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Virgin Electronics announced Tuesday its own portable digital music player weighing less than the Apple iPod mini with an additional 1 gigabyte of storage space.
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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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Virgin is the first major music retailer to enter the download market in introducing a music store to sell music as streams of bits to be downloaded from the Internet.