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Attention, trendy joggers and celebrities everywhere: the third-generation iPod shuffle is out. Apple has...

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Apple has quietly updated its DRM upgrade policy on iTunes. According to iLounge, folks wishing to strip digital rights management protection from their songs

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When Analog Devices said it would stop developing PC audio codecs this summer, we expected the move to empower other audio codec providers. That's...

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If you need a new MP3 player this Christmas and Apple's "Get a Mac" ads have rubbed you the wrong way, good news: you...

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Despite some of the things we heard this summer, Dell may hold off on resuming its battle with the iPod. eWeek says the Wall Street...

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Google is in for a direct collision course with Hulu, according to CNet News. The news site has learned from an "executive with a major...

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A couple of months ago, AMD announced that it had struck a deal to sell its digital TV business to Broadcom. The transaction would...

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In the face of heated competition from Amazon and Apple, Walmart looks to be working hard to make its new MP3 downloads store more compelling....

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Nvidia has made lots of noise about its CUDA general-purpose programming interface in recent months. While the company still boasts about CUDA's benefits for...

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Yesterday, rumors of a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360 re-emerged after several months of silence. Supposedly, Microsoft had contracted Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology to...

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Surprise, surprise. Barely two weeks after announcing plans to shut down its digital-rights-management authentication servers, Walmart has backpedaled. Engadget says the company has...

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Shortly after Toshiba called it quits on the whole HD DVD thing earlier this year, the rumor mill ground up to full speed and started...

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The iTunes Store has made Apple the top music retailer in the United States, and it has likely played no small part in promoting...

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Remember back in July, when Yahoo announced the impending demise of its DRM servers and urged customers to burn their music to CDs? Despite...

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Wouldn't it be neat if you could not only search YouTube for video names, tags, and authors, but also actual spoken words inside videos? Believe...

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After years of attempting to shove digital rights management down users' throats, the music industry finally got the message. Today, "DRM-free MP3" is the new...

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At Apple's "Let's Rock" event in San Francisco earlier today, a still-emaciated Steve Jobs unveiled a batch of refreshed iPods along with a matching...

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Now that information about its new Zunes has popped up on gadget sites worldwide (and a couple of online retailers have mistakenly listed the devices),...

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