Taiwan market: Taiwan and China brands battle for entry-level MP3 player market share (Digi Times)
In the Taiwan market, white-box MP3 players made in China have been selling in the market for some time due to their comparatively low prices, but these products have been losing ground to leading local Taiwan brands since early July, as local players have reduced their prices and offer better support, according to industry sources.
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CCID Consulting: Sales Volume of China's MP3/MP4 Players Reaches 3 Million Sets and Sales Revenue Reaches 1.99 Billion ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
CCID Consulting, China's leading research, consulting and IT outsourcing service provider, and the first Chinese consulting firm listed in Hong Kong , recently released its article on China's MP3/MP4 player market in 2008H1.
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New Freshkills MP3: "My House" (Spin)
From the church of sludgy punk staples like the Melvins and Jesus Lizard come the Williamsburg, Brooklyn, discord-loving disciples Freshkills and their new testament of melodic-not-pretty post-hardcore. Guttural and gritty, the MP3 "My House" is a throwback to '80s cassettes that garble into a growling mess. Freshkills sound is intelligible, even polished, but they maintain the old-school ...
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Stolen MP3 players likely to be sold cheaply (Irish Examiner)
GARDAÍ believe that thousands of euro worth of MP3 players and other electrical equipment stolen from a retailer in a Cork suburb could be sold on at knock-down prices.
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Social networking extending its reach (The Nashua Telegraph)
WASHINGTON -- Until now, there was never much reason to linger at the online MP3 store eMusic past the time it took to click on a download button or two. ... - By MIKE MUSGROVE The Washington Post
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The Key to Smaller, More Powerful Gadgets (Scientific American)
Gadget buyers today can purchase PCs, cell phones and mp3 players with significantly more memory than their predecessors for just a few dollars more than they paid a few years ago. To wit: you can purchase an 80-gigabyte iPod today for the same price (around $250) you paid for one with just 30 gigabytes of memory two years ago. But consumers are in for a rude awakening if technology makers fail ...
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Question of the Day: Do You Listen to an MP3 Player While Working Out? [Question Of The Day] (Gizmodo)
The news about new iPods coming out on September 9th combined with observations during my daily visits to the gym have got me wondering about how many of you use an MP3 player while working out....
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New Music: Times New Viking: "Call & Respond" [MP3/Stream] (Pitchfork)
As Pitchfork news reported a few weeks back, Times New Viking have a new EP coming out called Stay Awake . It's got five songs on it, and it's coming out on a 7" vinyl record. You gotta love 7" EPs. In any event, Matador just made an mp3 from the release available. It's the lead track, "Call & Respond", and it certainly sounds like a TNV winner, with its screeching mid-range dominated by ...
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Im only allowed to tell you that we have an emergency in the plant (The Charleston Gazette)
Listen to calls between Bayer and 911 dispatchers (MP3) CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Bayer CropScience officials repeatedly ...
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New Music: Jessica Lea Mayfield (prod. by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys): "Kiss Me Again" [MP3/Stream] (Pitchfork)
You may remember Jessica Lea Mayfield from the Black Keys' Attack & Release , where she harmonized with Dan Auerbach on "Things Ain't Like They Used to Be". The eighteen-year-old singer/songwriter has been working with Auerbach for two years on her debut, With Blasphemy So Heartfelt , a collection of bootgazer country tunes about young love and deep scars. She kicks off that album's ...
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