3 posts and columns on iRiver

Thinking Outside the Pod

in The Mossberg Report on December 12, 2006 at 12:02 am PT

Apple’s iPod music players are wildly popular, and they’re paired with a very good online music service, the iTunes Store. But not everyone loves the famous gadget. Here’s a guide to doing digital music outside the Apple hegemony. Music services The iTunes Store is the digital equivalent of a music shop. You buy individual songs [...]

Digital Music: A Primer

in The Mossberg Solution on July 5, 2006 at 11:59 pm PT

More than 50 million Apple iPods, and lots of competing digital music players, have been sold by now. But many folks are still confused over how legal digital music works. So here’s a quick-and-dirty guide to the digital music world.
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Handheld Hollywood

in The Mossberg Report on January 4, 2006 at 12:01 am PT

Apple Computer caused a big splash recently by introducing a new iPod that can play videos and by starting to sell videos, as it does songs, at its iTunes Music Store. This new iPod will very quickly become the bestselling handheld video device, mostly because people will buy it mainly for its music capabilities. But [...]