Amazon Will Target Apple’s iPod With its Portable Digital Music Player

December 8th, 2005 Apple could be in for a big legal fight with competitor Creative over the navigation technology used in iPod music players. Creative CEO Sim Wong Hoo plans to pursue aggressively a US patent it owns on a system used to navigate music on digital players.

May 24th, 2006 Rumors are rife about Google's venture into lucrative online music store market, thereby competing with Apple's highly successful iPod. Declan finds that Google has added /music to its robots.txt file, potentially indicating the site can come up anytime.

March 6th, 2006 I am really missing the kitchen sink from this one. This beast of a phone can store about 2,000 songs.

June 21st, 2006 Creative announced Zen V which offers great features in a tiny, flash-based form factor (about the size and shape of a smooth-cornered Zippo lighter). The player gives you everything you get with the iPod Nano except iTunes compatibility, and adds a few solid extras.

November 16th, 2005 Copy-Protection recently came to limelight as Sony used DRM technology to copy-protect its CD's which makes them vulnerable to viruses and malware. This website allows you to search for music CD in Amazon database which do not have any kind of copy-protection enabled.

June 19th, 2006 Microsoft Corp. is developing a music and video device to compete with Apple's iPod and creating its own music service to rival Apple's iTunes, sources familiar with the plans said on Friday.

November 21st, 2005 The controversial XCP digital rights management technology that Sony BMG bundled in its audio CDs can easily be defeated by applying a small piece of tape to the discs claimed Gartner. Applying a piece of opaque tape to the outer edge of the disk renders the data track of the CD unreadable.

March 16th, 2009 After Apple's newest surprise of coming out with the 'smallest mp3 player the world has seen', i.e. the new iPod shuffle, now its time for apple accessories to live up to theirs.

February 7th, 2007 Steve Jobs in his Thoughts on Music article explores the alternatives to DRM going forward. He explores three options - 1.

August 21st, 2006 SanDisk Corp. unveiled what is arguably the world's largest capacity, flash-memory based MP3 player with 8 GB memory.

June 24th, 2006 K-NFB - a portable scanning device, invented by Raymond Kurzweil, that reads text to visually impaired people will go on sale in the UK next month. The K-NFB, which combines a PDA and a digital camera, means that people will be able to read menus, train timetables and product labels in shops.

January 28th, 2007 Fairplay DRM (an ironical name) actually restricts fair play by other music players. You are forced to buy an iPod if you want to listen to iTunes music.

June 15th, 2009 Virgin Media and Universal launch music serviceLONDON — Virgin Media, the cable TV operator owned by entrepreneur Richard Branson, launched a new kind of music download subscription service Monday with Universal, the world's largest music company. The service, described by the companies as a world first, will allow Virgin Media's broadband customers in Britain to stream and download as many songs and albums as they like from Universal's catalog for a fee.

July 21st, 2006 Yahoo for the first time is offering a popular song for sale unprotected by any anti-copying technology. It's a one-time deal with record label Epic that Yahoo mentioned as significant progress toward its goal of eventually selling all music downloads with no restrictions.

November 14th, 2005 A vulnerability has been reported in Macromedia Flash Player 7, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to missing validation of the frame type identifier that is read from a SWF file.