MP3 player

There Better Be Some Cool Stuff at CES, Because CE Holiday Sales Data Bytes!

Kara Swisher in Commerce on January 8 at 11:26 am PT

Camcorders and MP3 players go splat!

Nintendo's 3DS on Sale March 27 for $250, Boasting iPhone-Like Features

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 19, 2011 at 8:56 am PT

Nintendo announced the pricing and release date today for the 3DS, which it hopes will rejuvenate sales as its other hardware platforms start aging.

RealNetworks Wants a Convergence Play–Just Like Everyone Else

Peter Kafka in Media on January 4, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

RealNetworks figures you’re going to want to move your entertainment off the Web and onto whatever device you want, whenever you want. So do a lot of competitors.

Dell Developing MID (Mobile Internet Disaster)

John Paczkowski in News on June 29, 2009 at 3:41 pm PT

The consumer electronics wizards at Dell who brought us the now defunct DJ Ditty MP3 player and the Axim handheld are hard at work on another gadget, a mobile Internet device.

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It’s Not Easy Being a Green Recharger

Willa Plank, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 30, 2009 at 11:01 am PT

My iPhone needs charging every night. Even then, it dies on me by the end of the day, cutting off important conversations. Coming upon solar- and wind-powered portable chargers, I wondered if I found the perfect solution to keeping it going while helping the environment.

Sirius Founder: You're 10 Years Too Late, Karmazin

John Paczkowski in News on March 16, 2009 at 1:36 pm PT

Is it too late for Sirius XM? CEO Mel Karmazin and John Malone, whose Liberty Media just tossed the foundering satellite radio outfit a $530 million lifeline, clearly don’t believe so. So do the company’s long-suffering investors, who continue to stand by it, though their faith has been sorely shaken. But the same cannot be said for Martine Rothblatt, the entrepreneur who founded Sirius nearly 20 years ago.

Sirius Founder: You’re 10 Years Too Late, Karmazin

John Paczkowski in News on March 16, 2009 at 1:36 pm PT

Is it too late for Sirius XM? CEO Mel Karmazin and John Malone, whose Liberty Media just tossed the foundering satellite radio outfit a $530 million lifeline, clearly don’t believe so. So do the company’s long-suffering investors, who continue to stand by it, though their faith has been sorely shaken. But the same cannot be said for Martine Rothblatt, the entrepreneur who founded Sirius nearly 20 years ago.

1982 Called. It Wants Its Digital Music Distribution Model Back

John Paczkowski in News on September 22, 2008 at 8:29 am PT

Overall CD sales are plummeting after eight years of unflagging erosion. Digital music sales now account for 15 percent of recording industry’s revenues worldwide and 30 percent in the United States, according to recent data from The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. And those numbers are climbing faster than ever. Consider: This past June, Apple said it has sold some five billion songs on its iTunes Store. Clearly, physical media are giving way to the Internet as a means of music distribution. What better time, then, to reinvent the music industry’s business model for physical media, as SanDisk hopes to do with its new microSD memory card album format?

Where Your Old Gadgets Find a Second Life

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on August 12, 2008 at 2:32 pm PT

Digital electronics will eventually break or get replaced. It’s hard to know what to do with the gadgets that get left behind. But there are Web sites that make it easy to get rid of old electronics — and some offer cash for them, too.