Study: MP3 Player Market Booming
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Sales of portable digital-audio players are booming, and IDC predicts the market will generate $58 billion by 2008. The research firm says Apple&#39;s iPod will continue to be a major participant
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An anonymous reader writes &quot;Market research company IDC is predicting a rosy future for MP3 player sales. They predict that by 2008 it will grow into a $58 billion industry - four times bigger than the US record industry.
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Former execs from iriver, Musicmatch and Diamond Multimedia work in stealth mode on a new MP3 player that could be the first major advance in years. By Eliot Van Buskirk.
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Buying digital music can be confusing. On one hand, you have an alphabet soup of acronyms, all referring to varying formats. On the other hand, you have a slew of online retailers, each furiously competing for your hard-earned music dollar. And in the middle, you have an avalanche of players, each of which offer different features and work with different formats.
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Early estimates suggest demand for digital TVs, MP3 players. and other gadgets are up this year.
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SanDisk plans to add MP3 players to its product mix in 2005, with the goal of capturing 20% of the Taiwan market, according to the companyâs Taiwan general sales agent Princeton Technology C&amp;C.
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Technology security experts warn that many of this holiday season's millions of newbie MP3 player owners don't know what dangers lurk behind some music.
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Portable media players and related accessories are among the hottest gift items this holiday season. People can now carry thousands of songs in their pocket, and many of the sleek gizmos can display photos and videos as well.
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A new generation of smaller, sleeker and cheaper MP3 players from the likes of Sony, Rio, Creative and Rave MP are hitting the market this fall, and they all have Apple
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Made more money licensing MP3 player patent than selling MP3 players You can see now why Creative Technology's now so pro-iPod - last month it announced a range of 'Made for iPod'-branded accessories. Its latest financial results, posted last night, show a massive upswing in revenues thanks, we'd say, to Apple's move to license Creative's key MP3 player patent.â¦
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The consumer electronics giant is finally ready to build MP3 players that play MP3s. What does that mean to the industry?
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CANNES, France -- With an eye on the success of portable music players, mobile phone makers are going after would-be iPod buyers by building high-quality players into their handsets.
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The MP3 players get a splash of color -- and better earbuds. In Listening Post.
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SanDisk Corp. SNDK.O will bring a $100   MP3 music player onto the market in October with a capacity of   2 gigabytes, enough to hold about 1,000 songs, the company said   on Saturday.
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Troy Wolverton reports for the San Jose Mercury News, âMicrosoftâs Zune had a decent debut last month, but Apple Computerâs iPods continued to dominate the MP3 market, according to new data from market research firm NPD Group released this week.â
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A few years ago, when MP3 players were establishing themselves as the hot cool thing, the next step seemed clear: What if you could take along not only music but movies, television programs, home video and still pictures in a high-tech box svelte enough
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Priced at $249.99, it can play MP3, WMA and WAV-encoded music files.