Archive for January, 2010
Music Players: lower the tax on flash memory and cons coalition Apple
Here’s some news that will make fans happy with the players stamped the famous apple: after months of negotiations, the decline in tax flash memory (Sorecop) has finally been implemented. Apple took advantage of lower prices for its entire range of players (including models with hard drive), while the side of competition, efforts to develop a common standard connector to dethrone the iPod . Read the rest of this entry »
The companies most prominent (3 / 3): Apple
Technology, design, control of communication … This is the recipe used by Apple this year with its digital music player. A player who has given new vigor to the mark to Apple allowing it to infiltrate the world of PC users with music.
On April 15, 2004, Apple released a quarterly revenue up 30%: thank you iPod, which Apple has sold in three months more than 800,000 units. To continue surfing this wave of music players, Apple launches the latest iPod mini, acid colors. After 10 days of marketing, the player is out of stock. And yet, the iPod mini has much less storage space than the first iPod … Read the rest of this entry »
Apple announces the “Mac mini” iPod and the tiny price
That’s it, Steve Jobs came on stage. On the occasion of MacWorld taking place right now in San Francisco, Apple CEO announced the release of a Macintosh computer with less than 500 dollars. Rumor had thus spoken the truth. Except that the “Mac mini” is more attractive than what we could imagine a computer comes without a screen, keyboard and mouse! Read the rest of this entry »
Sony: new music player and results of the launch of the PSP in Europe
The inventor of the Walkman is now set to face David Apple, a true Goliath in the market for music players. The Japanese will launch by the end of the year a new line of music players to compete with different versions of the iPod.
In addition, Sony has announced the results of the launch of its multimedia PSP console in Europe. Sony may have overtaken the area of music players (74% market share for Apple’s iPod), but his first foray into the world of portable consoles, the Japanese signed a success. Read the rest of this entry »
NVIDIA acquires PortalPlayer
The graphics card manufacturer NVIDIA has just bought his brother PortalPlayer for $ 357 million. The acquisition should be finalized after the approval of competition authorities.
PortalPlayer is a producer of chips for data processing. Until this year, the U.S. provided the chipset used on iPods from Apple. Read the rest of this entry »
Launch of the iPhone, first phone compatible with iTunes
Steve Jobs, Apple’s chairman, and Ed Zander, Motorola Premier will launch the iPhone Tuesday, the first mobile phone to incorporate the legal download service iTunes music.
The aircraft will be based on the Motorola E398, ivory white in color like the first iPod, and give access to a simplified version of iTunes. It should initially be equipped with a removable memory of 512 MB can store hundreds of songs and can be connected to a stereo, computer or car. Read the rest of this entry »
Sony finally recognizes that it is not the inventor of the Walkman
The famous walkman, put on the market by Sony in 1979, has been called the “Stereobelt”! Twenty-five years after its release, the audio player today reveals its secrets invention … Andreas Pavel, a German of 59 years, in 1977 filed several patents in various countries, all bearing on the invention of a portable device for listening to music. Read the rest of this entry »
New firmware kills iTunes!

A large number of iPhone owners reported to the forum Apple error of the new firmware – 2.2.1. When you try to sync after updating the phone software program iTunes is closed. This problem actually concerns not only the owners of iPhone, but the owners of iPod Touch. Read the rest of this entry »
Podcast number 2
As we promised, every 2 weeks, we share with you our thoughts and news.
At the beginning of the podcast Andrew carelessly down on February 13, which is the birthday of Volodya Read the rest of this entry »