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Saturday, 12 February 2005 |
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The Zen of Fighting iPod
Newsweek - USA
By Steven Levy
Feb. 21 issue - Most customers of creative Technologies don't even know it.
They're the millions who have the Sound Blaster circuit boards in their PCs that
process the audio boomed through the speakers. The Singapore-based company has
thrown its energies into digital music players, a field it entered well before
Apple's introduction of the market leader, the iPod. Nonetheless, founder and
CEO Sim Wong Hoo thinks his own products—the flash-based MuVo as well as the
direct iPod competitor, the Zen Micro—can hold their own with Steve Jobs. We
phoned the outspoken 49-year-old Sim, whose Zen playlist is heavy on Chinese and
New Age music, at his Singapore headquarters.
Why do you think your competitor, the iPod, gets so much attention?
Steve Jobs is a personality that we all have to reckon with. His way of dealing
with the media and all these things is legendary. But he was not the first to
come out with this MP3. We started way back in 1999. We paid a lot of school
fees for our mistakes along the way, but [our] company has transformed from a
sound-card company into a company where we do all kinds of external products. Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Saturday, 12 February 2005 |
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Environmentalists Push for a 'Greener' iPod
Christian Science Monitor -
By Samar Farah | Contributor to The Christian Science
Monitor
First, Apple made iPod. Wondrously white and smooth and with a navigational
Click Wheel so touch sensitive, it granted music lovers a sense of magical
powers untold.
Then environmentalists broke the spell. The iPod, they told attendees at the
Macworld Conference & Expo last month, was not magic but a piece of hardware
with a very mortal heart: a battery that lasts only two to three years and is
difficult to replace.
Why pick on the tiny iPod when landfills around the country are filling up with
16-inch monitors and ancient CPUs? Because of the sheer numbers of the devices
being sold, and Apple's reputation as a forward-thinking company. Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Sound Advice: Audio-compression quality is subjective
Minneapolis Star Tribune - MN,USA
I have recently started moving my music from CDs to iTunes on my Macintosh and
using an iPod. I am uncertain what quality, if any, I am losing with the
compression. I typically use the AAC, high-quality setting in iTunes to store
the music on my Mac. Is there audible loss of quality from the CD? Or is any
loss only noticeable to the high-buck audiophile set?
Mark Nelson, Golden Valley
You will lose something when you use MP3 or AAC compression, but whether it is
audible depends on the system playing it and the settings you use when you do
the encoding (compression).
Sound quality from a portable music player such as an iPod is highly dependent
on the earphones used. Even with good earphones, the difference between
high-quality AAC and full-quality CD will be hard to distinguish. Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Friday, 11 February 2005 |
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First Linux-Powered 3G Smartphone Arrives
NewsFactor Network, CA
Developed by a group of companies, including Samsung Electronics and Infineon
Technologies, the UMTS/EDGE smartphone platform is designed to incorporate
advanced 3G and multimedia services, such as dual-mode voice calls, video calls
and video streaming.
The world's first UMTS/Edge smartphone Latest News about smartphone reference
design based on the Linux Latest News about Linux operating system has been
unveiled.
Developed by a group of companies including Samsung Electronics Latest News
about Samsung and Infineon Technologies, the platform is designed to incorporate
advanced 3G Latest News about 3G and multimedia services such as UMTS/Edge dual
mode voice calls, video calls and video streaming. Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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