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Portable Media Player: An umbrella term for a variety of handheld devices that play back audio, video or both. The device may also serve as a portable photo album and display still...; Full Portable Media Player Definition >>

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myvu Universal edition brings a big screen experience to your portable media player: Late last year I had a chance to check out the myvu Made for iPod Fully Loaded package and thought it was an excellent way to view video content on the iPod. Unfortunately, I didn't own an iPod and had to just borrow one for the review so I didn't...; Tags: Box, Apple iPod, Portable Media Player, Video, Media Player, Cable, Corporate Communications, Digital Music, Digital Media, Network Technology, Media Players, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Networking, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2007-10-10
Image Gallery: myvu Universal Edition Personal Media Viewer: Watching movies on a small display of a portable media player or mobile device isn't always the best experience. myvu just announced the myvu Universal Edition of its personal media viewer goggles that let you get a large screen feel for video content on your portable media player. by Matthew...; Tags: Portable Media Player, Media Player, Media Players, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller, product photos, myvu, tv goggles; Image galleries 2007-10-09
Photos: Philips gear syncs music with devices: New products include several iPod docks--one with a remote-control for the iPod--and a revamped version of its portable media player.; Tags: Digital music, Media players, Digital media, portable media player, Apple iPod, Philips Electronics N.V., media player, music, photograph; Image galleries 2007-08-16
Amazon Grocery Search (widget): Amazon Grocery offers over 22,000 non-perishable items including some of your favorite brands, shipped to your door, just like any other Amazon.com purchase. Buying from the grocery section on Amazon.com is cheaper than buying from the gourmet food section because shipping is cheaper or free. Save items you want to...; Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Zoran, Grocery; Software downloads 2007-07-26
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week: Here are CNET Reviews' top 10 items from the past week, including Intel's quad-core processor, a sleek portable media player from Samsung and Logitech's Vista-ready gaming controller.; Tags: Media players, Digital music, Digital media, Processors, quad-core, portable media player, Logitech, media player, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Microsoft Windows Vista, processor, Intel Corp., game; Image galleries 2006-11-04

7.5 mln portable media players by 2009: Early adopters will remain the primary market for portable media players PMPs in 2005. The mass market is not yet willing to pay the hefty price tag for PMPs, which is approximately $400 to $500. PMPs are competing with other converged devices such as handheld gaming devices, smarter PDAs, and...; Tags: portable media player, media player; Blog posts 2005-09-23
27% buy portable media players looking for more features: 73% of those buying the new generation of portable media players are tech-savvy knowledgeable pioneers, research from Parks Associates shows. The rest describe themselves as feature-driven value hunters. The tech-savvy crowd is 52% male, while the feature-driven hunters are 70% female.; Tags: Media players, Digital music, Digital media, portable media player, media player; Blog posts 2005-08-06
Only 13 mln portable media players in the US by 2010: High prices and limited video content will inhibit demand for HDD hard disk drive portable multimedia players PMPs, which will reach only 17% of US online households by 2010, according to Parks Associates. Competition from existing devices such as portable DVD players and mobile phones with multimedia functions will also...; Tags: hard drive; Blog posts 2005-07-12
Portable Media Players for Windows "Longhorn": Portable media players are growing rapidly in popularity and features. Numerous devices that are available today can play both Windows Media Audio WMA and MP3 audio, and products are starting to appear that can also play Windows Media Video WMV, MPEG4, and other compressed video formats. This paper provides an...; Tags: Portable Media Player, Microsoft Windows, Video, Microsoft Longhorn, Media Player, Media Players, Corporate Communications, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing; White papers 2005-07-08

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Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Disks (SSDs) and Linux: Is 20th-century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking for...; Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Mandrake, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-07-25
MobileTechRoundup show #141, jkOnTheRun is aquired, Sony Reader, battery life, and more: I had a good time recording MobileTechRoundup show #141 with the two newest members of the Giga Om Media group, James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel. Don't worry listeners and readers, you will still get the same content from those two and from me here on the podcast for the foreseeable...; Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Sony Corp., Battery, Sony Reader, Kevin, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched: Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...; Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Britain moves against illegal file sharing: CBC News out of Canada is reporting that British ISPs are making an aggressive move against illegal file sharing by implementing a program designed to discover copyright violators, who will be sent warning letters and may potentially have their internet connections disconnected. For more on the article,...; Tags: File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated): Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...; Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users: Slingpage, which announced its social browsing extension for Internet Explorer last month, will introduce an equally feature-rich version of its service to Mozilla Firefox users next week. Slingpage offers a way for Web surfers to find information about favorite topics via "Slingcast" feeds as well as create...; Tags: Monitor, Mozilla Firefox, Note, Tool, Slingpage, Web Browsers, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Leggio; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer: Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer. From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...; Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity: Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...; Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Netflix ups outlook; Customer acquisition costs fall: Netflix said Friday it ended the second quarter with more than 8.4 million subscribers, up 25 percent from a year ago, and spent less money acquiring those customers. Those two factors added up to better than expected quarterly results and an improved outlook. The company has been...; Tags: NetFlix Inc., Acquisition, Earnings, Financial Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Investment, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25
10 essential gadgets for students: I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...; Tags: Headphone, Phone, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Lecture, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-07-25
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