Archos, despite being an early pioneer in the development and sales of portable media players, has a hard time keeping solid market share in the face of high powered rivals such as Apple and its iPod. Archos certainly doesn’t lack in creativity, putting out inventive PMPs such as the wireless enabled 704 WiFi.
To help distinguish […]

There’s a new start up in town sporting a nice looking portable player and matching online music service. That start up is named Slacker and they’ve got some pretty big honchos helming them into a space dominated by the Apple iPod.
Slacker, unveiled last week, is being driven by Dennis Mudd, former CEO of Music Match, […]

Puretracks whose majority owner is Bell Canada made the huge announcement today that it would begin offering certain music downloads in a DRM-free MP3 format.
Approximately 50,000 songs will be available without the DRM technology. Currently the Puretracks catalog is over one million songs so this is nothing compared to their entire library but it is […]

In a story over on HypeBot it appears EMI could be looking to sell off it’s recorded music division in an effort to pull themselves out of the profit black hole they seem to have fallen into. So in an effort to cut costs and boost their share price the board is said to be […]

The Toshiba Gigabeat V is the much awaited upgrade to the very successful Toshiba Gigabeat S model, and has further strengthened the profile of Toshiba in the portable media market place. This device offers a vast array of media functions including, digital audio player, photo viewer, and video player. The Toshiba Gigabeat V […]

Digital Rights Management or DRM is a term which includes various technologies which publishers or copyright owners use in order to control the access and the ways in which you use data such as an mp3 file or hardware such as an iPod. It is a form of copy protection basically so companies can keep […]

It appears the times they are a changin! Major announcements and possible shadow motives are causing quite the buzz in the digital music industry. Announcements and grand standing and DRMs, oh my! EMI is reported (BugMeNot login info) to be making the move towards unrestricted digital music sales. That means good old fashioned MP3s with […]