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iPods DO Get a Refresh, But Only the Nano

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

While it looked as if this Apple event was going to be for the birds with not much if any impressive news out of Cupertino, turns out we were wrong. As expected, the Nano got a refresh, adding a microphone, camera, and speaker to the device. As far as I know, the video camera was expected, [...]

Apple Starts a Price War

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

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You knew this was coming: Apple has announced that it would cut the price of the 8GB iPod Touch to $199, while offering a 32GB for $299 and a new 64GB for $399. This effectively puts it in direct competition with the Zune HD, whose 16GB model retails for $219, and 32GB model which retails [...]

Apple Tries To Hush Owners of Exploding iPod

Monday, August 3, 2009

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In true Apple fashion, the company has reportedly attempted–and failed–to hush the owners of an defective iPod that ended up exploding in England. Acording to The Times, the only way the Stanboroughs would get a full refund was if they agreed to sign a settlement form. On it, the form specified that if the family would [...]

HP’s MediaSmart Servers to Crunch Video, Stream to iPhones

Monday, April 13, 2009

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Microsoft’s Windows Home Server platform has only one major booster among PC manufacturers, but it’s a doozy: HP, whose MediaSmart Servers pack sizable quantities of redundant storage, Microsoft’s software for backing up, restoring, and sharing data, and HP’s own tweaks and additions, such as support for Macs. And today HP announced a software update for [...]

5Words for April 13th, 2009

Monday, April 13, 2009

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Hey, it’s Monday the thirteenth! Meet Twitter-annoying teen Mikeyy. Prince’s $2100 purple iPod Touch. Amazon: hiding gay-themed books? Skype should sell to founders. Vizio may face import ban. iPod Shuffle is 72% profit. Palm readying inductive-charging accessories? Two potential Pre shipping dates. Windows 7: securest operating system? Microsoft kills on-campus bar.

Time Running Out for iPod Competitors

Friday, April 10, 2009

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If anything was evidence that Apple’s iPod is ready to be the de-facto digital music device, the latest survey of teens by financial research firm Piper Jaffray should be it. Of the 606 teens surveyed (54 percent male, 46 percent female), those planning to buy a player all responded they were considering Apple’s iconic device. About [...]

Apple Adds DRM to Shuffle Headphones?!?

Monday, March 16, 2009

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([UPDATE:] This post was written with the information Technologizer had at the time. Since then, we’ve learned a bit more. Please reference this new post from Harry.) The “Apple tax” has been somewhat of a tongue-in-cheek joke in the tech world for a long time: where the consumer pays a higher price for a product simply [...]

Apple’s New iPod Shuffle: The First Invisible MP3 Player

Friday, March 13, 2009

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It’s tempting, when writing about Apple’s new third-generation iPod Shuffle, to veer towards the whimsical, and stay there. You might compare the tiny player to various other tiny objects, or theorize that the next Shuffle will be the size of a Tylenol, or even perform stupid Shuffle tricks such as stuffing one inside a Pez [...]

IBM to Watch Papermaster’s Moves at Apple

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

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It appears as if for now, IBM will let Mark Papermaster work at Apple starting in April, but with a catch. Everytime there may be a question of whether or not Papermaster might disclose confidential information, he must check in with IBM, court documents indicate. IBM’s assistant general counsel Ron Laureldale would then make a determination [...]

Apple Nano Settlement Reached, Lawyers Make a Windfall

Friday, January 23, 2009

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Shortly after the first-generation iPod Nano launched, it became apparent that they scratched far too easily. That inspired one disgruntled customer to blog about his complaints, leading some enterprising lawyers to contacted him. A lawsuit was born, and four years on, a $22 million settlement has been reached. Apple tacitly acknowledged the problem when it began [...]

iPods? How About iFrauds?

Monday, December 22, 2008

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Last week, for reasons too complicated to explain here, I wandered into a “liquidation sale” near my home. I didn’t find what I was looking for. But I encountered a bevy of bizarre music players that tried, with varying levels of energy and success, to look like Apple iPods. I snapped photos, and bought a [...]

iFrauds: The Fakest iPods Ever!

Monday, December 22, 2008

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Last week, I went to a “liquidation sale” in San Francisco. Along with the alarming 64-ounce bottles of perfume, leather jackets made from the skins of unspecified animals, and Shamwows, the show’s dealers offered music players. Ones that shamelessly rip off the iPod. Scads of them. I took crummy pictures with my iPhone–and, I’m ashamed [...]

Apple Patentmania: 31 Years of Big Ideas

Monday, December 15, 2008

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Apple may be famously secretive, but there’s one guy the company has been confiding in for more than three decades now. That would be its Uncle Sam, in the form of the U.S. Patent Office. The company’s patent filings are a remarkable record of Apple’s brainstorms, from its biggest blockbusters to its most humbling flops [...]

Is There an iPod Shortage? Apparently!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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Over at Cnet, Tom Krazit has blogged about an analyst’s report that the iPod shortage that began at Amazon.com seems to be spreading to other venues. Which surprised me–not least because I didn’t know that Amazon was suffering from an iPod shortage. But it is. I just checked, and while most of the myriad iPods (from [...]

“Father of the iPod” Departs Apple

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

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We usually don’t cover executive comings and goings here at Technologizer, but this onee merits a mention: Apple Senior Vice President Tony Fadell has left full-time work at Apple and will be an advisor to the company. Fadell was not only the head of the company’s iPod division, but the guy who came up with [...]

New iPod Nano: The Technologizer Review

Friday, September 12, 2008

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The iPod Nano isn’t just the smallest iPod with a screen–it’s also the one that Apple reinvents on the most aggressive schedule. It debuted as a skinny plastic music player in September 2005; became a skinny aluminum music player a year later; and transmogrified into a short, squat aluminum music and video player a year [...]