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Sony employee Masayo Endo displays a new high-performance in-ear headset called the MDR-EX90SL in Tokyo on May 1. The product has a diagonal earpiece with a large 13.5-millimeter driver unit to deliver smooth bass and clear treble sounds. It will hit the market May 10 for $104. MORE TO FOLLOW WHEN PRODUCT IS RELEASED read …
Apparently toys are off the menu when it comes to promoting Disney movies in McDonald’s Happy Meals. The two companies are ending their 10-year, $1.3 billion cross-promotional deal at the end of the 2006 summer movie season. What ended the relationship? Disney board member Steve Jobs doesn’t care much for the food at McDonald’s and …
The battle of the two Apples is over…. for now. Apple Corps, The Beatles record label, lost their ridiculous court battle with Apple Computer over its iTunes download service on Monday. The Judge ruled that Apple Computer used its logo in association with its store, not the music, and was not in breach of an …
First Lauren Weiss gave men an inside look at the world of women. Now 3 Men and a Little Gravy let you eavesdrop on the disturbing things that go on in the minds of men. Patrick Walsh, Josh Shurtleff and Ian Friedman cover such diverse topics as Pat’s spelling bee race scandal, Josh’s humiliating fitness …
Cult of Mac blogger, Leander Kahney found an interesting video on YouTube.com that could prevent your Apple laptop from being stolen. “iAlertU is a super clever anti-theft software package that sounds the alarm in the event of an attempted laptop theft. The software uses the hard drive motion sensors built into late model PowerBooks and …
Would you rather entertain loved ones or just look like an idiot in front of them? The choice, really, is yours. You may have the big picture and sweet sound of your dreams or you may blow your investment in any of the following ways… For more information on setting-up and getting the most from …
Stereophile covers the recent, first ever national meet of the internet headphone community, Head-fi.org. These are not your daddy’s white earbuds . Wow! Talk about enthusiasts…there’s a pair of headphones pictured in this article for $15K. Yes, that’s $15,000. If you’re looking for the absolute authority on headphones, how to test, where to buy, these …
Apparently iTunes and the iPod hold a major stake in the future of music. In just a few years, the iTunes Music Store has become the most powerful and popular music retailer in the world. How powerful? Apple has enough clout to tell the greedy big four music companies (Universal, Warner, SonyBMG and EMI) how …
Roar! Tetran wants to eat your earbuds. Tetran is a terrifying little monster cleverly disguised as a earbud cable winder. When you’re not looking, Tetran eats your earbuds, then you can simply wind the undigested cable around his spiked, spherical body and it creates a neat little package. Basically Tetran is just a clever way …
This sign was found late last night (April 22) on the 3rd floor of the Manhattan Port Authority bus station. Found on bus: iPod Radio. Please see supervisor at gate 305 & 306 An “iPod Radio”? I didn’t know iPods had radios. Either an Apple employee lost a new iPod prototype or the Port Authority …
Great news for fans of The Beatles. At long last, their entire back catalog is being remastered and will be distributed in the iTunes Music Store. The information was revealed in court by Apple Corps Records CEO, Neil Aspinall. “We’re remastering the whole Beatles catalog, just to make it sound brighter and better and getting …
Not too much to say at this point, except that the gauntlet has been thrown down. From Apple.com More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows …
On April 1, 2006 Apple celebrated it’s 30th birthday. Having created one of the first personal computers and the graphical mouse-and-menu interface most PCs now use, it is now reshaping the music industry with the iPod and iTunes. To celebrate the company’s birthday, Wired News has a series of special features this month that can …
Is the above picture evidence of a few Windows users who have reached their breaking point, after what seems to be the never-ending stream of pro-Apple news of late, and decided to declare war on Apple, starting with their retail stores? Breaking, ironically enough, their Windows? Not exactly. Actually it is an attention grabbing store …
Speculating on the possibility of Apple making an iPod phone has almost become a part-time hobby for analysts and Apple rumor web sites. Everyone thinks Apple will eventually make an iPod phone but there was no solid proof… until now. According to SmartHouse.com, BenQ, a Taiwanese phone manufacturer confirms that an Apple product called the …
Came across the above pic on Flickr this morning and was instantly impressed by the ingenuity exhibited by the shop owner responsible for this stores window. The picture has little in the way of a description, but it looks like it was taken yesterday in Japan by Flickr user “thorner”. The man in the photo …
Jack Black, the star of Paramount Pictures’ Nacho Libre, will take audiences behind the scenes with exclusive “confessionals” about what it was like to make the upcoming comedy film in a series of video podcasts debuting on the iTunes Music Store and QuickTime.com. Beginning March 15 and continuing for 10 weeks, leading up to the …
