Are flash memory based portable media players set to rule the consumer market over there hard drive brethren in years to come? That seems to be the case according to market research firm iSuppli.
Chris Crotty, senior analyst of consumer electronics for iSuppli, sees the number of flash PMPs growing by a factor of more than […]

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is the trade organization to which major consumer electronics manufacturers belong. Their biggest impact in the consumer electronics arena is the yearly Consumer Electronics Show (CES). One committee of this organization - the Mobile Electronics Committee - has announced a new standard which will more easily let consumers play and […]

You may not have noticed (we didn’t either) but Microsoft looks to quietly have killed off their once highly publicized Portable Media Center platform for portable media players. While there’s been no official word from Microsoft corporate on this, a post recently placed by what is believed to be a Microsoft employee confirms the PMC […]

EMI have announced that they intend to ditch copy protection on their download music. This means you’ll be able to download tracks from EMI signed artists (including Coldplay, Lily Allen and Kylie), and play them on multiple devices.

Many of the major MP3 player manufacturers around the world are all being sued in a patent infringement suit.
The crazy thing about all of this though is that the company who is filing the lawsuit began it just one day after it acquired the patent. Talk about not wasting any time.

As if Microsoft’s sponsoring of a frat party that came off as no more than a nerdy, bumbling, mishandled attempt at being cool wasn’t enough. In the sleepy hours of the morning — we’re talking around 3:00 a.m. here — on the 25th of February Manhattan NY residents were presented with a gift from […]

For those who have been living under a rock for the last month or so Apple is getting ready to launch the highly anticipated iPhone in June which is a combination of a cell phone and an iPod with a great deal of new technology including touch-screen controls.
Apple began what should end up being one […]