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Report: Dell to Re-Enter MP3 Player Market
In recent months, personal computer maker Dell Inc., has been testing a digital music player that could go on sale as early as September, the Wall Street Journal newspaper said, citing several Dell officials. Dell's new foray would put it into an Apple-led market that has defied assaults. Companies like Microsoft Corp and Sony Corp have ...
YouTube New Compression Stymies Uploaders
New YouTube Audio Compression Stymies Uploaders Some YouTube users are mounting a growing revolt against the site's new audio scheme, which has degraded the sound quality of clips on the site by running them through an audio processor that wreaks havoc with songs' dynamic range (the variation between loud and soft), diminishing their sound quality. This ...
Motu Debuts Ultralite-MK3 Portable Firewire Audio Interface
MOTU, Inc. has introduced the UltraLite-mk3, a portable bus-powered FireWire audio interface with on-board effects and mixing. Features include a compact form factor with rugged lightweight alloy chassis, two XLR/TRS “combo" style mic inputs with high-quality preamps, true hi-Z guitar inputs, a total of 10 inputs and 14 outputs, 192 kHz analog I/O, a 32-bit floating ...
Pandora Argues That Web Royalties Will Kill It
Should Internet radio stations, cable providers, and satellite radio stations pay the same amount to license the content they provide? What model should be used to determine royalty rates? Why is traditional radio getting a free ride when it comes to royalties? Representatives from Pandora clashed on Tuesday with SoundExchange, the organization that collects royalties for ...
The All-New Honda Jazz
Honda's all-new Jazz is once again set to redefine the B-segment parameters of practicality and interior space. The 5-door hatchback will achieve class leading interior space and combined it with significantly improved fuel economy and 120 g/km CO2 emissions (1.4-litre i-SHIFT and 1.2-litre). The exterior design is at first glance an evolution rather than a revolution, ...
RIP: Cassette Tapes Obituary
Say So Long to an Old Companion: Cassette Tapes There was a funeral the other day in the Midtown offices of Hachette, the book publisher, to mourn the passing of what it called a “dear friend." Nobody had actually died, except for a piece of technology, the cassette tape. The cassette will grow even rarer now ...
Mics Meet USB--the Universal Studio Bus
Not only have USB Mics come of age--so has the USB Bus What's that? USB stands for Universal Serial Bus? Okay, but when you consider what it does in the studio, it's understandable some might think it has the alternate meaning in the title. Of course, there are so many USB audio and MIDI ...
Yahoo to Offer Refunds for Ex-Yahoo Music Customers
Yahoo will offer refunds to people who purchased individual tracks from Yahoo Music and who stand to lose access to that music when Yahoo Music is folded into Rhapsody in September. “We always intended to provide refunds," said Carrie Davis, a spokeswoman for Yahoo! Music. Yahoo announced last week that support for the Yahoo! Music Store ...
Hands on with the New 'Cuil' Search Engine
Cuil isn't quite a Google killer yet, but give it a while and it could find a sizable user base. Cuilan old Irish word for knowledge, which is pronounced “cool"has indexed 120 billion Web pages. That's three times more than any other search engine, including Google. Cuil launched Sunday night. The search engine ranks pages based ...
Cuil Hopes to be a Google-Killer
Stealth startup Cuil (pronounced “cool") is a next-generation search site that claims its index holds three times as many pages as Google, while requiring far fewer servers. Cuil co-founder and former Google project leader Anna Patterson told PC Magazine that Cuil's search index will debut with a 120 billion-page index, compared with Google's 40 billion out ...
