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Bragging rights to the world's first MP3 player
January 25, 2005
If you think you know what the first MP3 player was, think again, writes CNET MP3.com's Eliot Van Buskirk, who explains how tech lore was changed by a lawsuit.
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Compaq Computer Corp.
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Disney's MP3 players for preteens
September 29, 2005
Designed for children as young as 6, the Disney Mix Sticks is a line of MP3 players that also accommodate prerecorded memory cards. Photos: Disney's MP3 player for kids
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Rockin' growth seen for MP3 players
April 13, 2005
Report sees more than 56 million digital-music players in circulation by 2010, with flash players dominating the market.
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Napster offers subscribers MP3 player
June 30, 2006
Music service quietly begins offering customers a branded digital music player when they subscribe to the service.
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Virus-infected Creative Zen MP3 players found
September 1, 2005
Several thousand of the digital music players are thought to be affected in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Creative Technology Ltd.
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Creative Zen
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F-Secure Corp.
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Sophos Plc.
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The day Rio's music died
August 26, 2005
Parent company of iPod rival says portable digital-audio market is too competitive to warrant new investment.
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SanDisk unveils 8GB music player
August 21, 2006
Latest Sansa device costs $249; SanDisk also reduces prices across the board to compete with iPod. Photo: SanDisk's 8GB music player
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MP3.com founder returns to music biz
February 3, 2005
Michael Robertson to launch new 88-cent music store, with no copying restrictions on songs.
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eMusic sold; unlimited MP3 downloads nixed
October 10, 2003
VUNet sells the music subscription service to an obscure holding company, which will radically change subscriber policies.
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RealNetworks offers free songs for new service
April 26, 2005
Multimedia company taps Microsoft tech for new iTunes rival, offers free basic music subscriptions.
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MP3tunes.com shuns digital rights management
February 9, 2005
Michael Robertson, MP3.com's outspoken founder, turns on his latest creation: a music download service that focuses on unsigned artists.
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Napster's 'rental' music service takes on iTunes
February 3, 2005
The company is putting $30 million in marketing behind a new Microsoft-backed portable subscription service.
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Amazon to offer DRM-free music downloads
May 16, 2007
Music store coming later in the year is set to sell tunes unencumbered by copyright protections and ready to play on any device.
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The iPod at 5
October 20, 2006
It was by no means the first MP3 player on the market when it was unveiled in 2001, but the iPod quickly emerged as the most famous--and by far the most successful.
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Creative wins patent for MP3 player interface
August 30, 2005
Patent covers an interface--also found on the iPod--that lets people navigate successive screens of artists, albums and songs. Images: Creative's user interface
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A fuel cell to gas up your MP3 player
September 16, 2005
Toshiba uses methanol to keep a hard-drive-based audio player running for approximately 60 hours on a single charge. Photos: Fuel cells for music players
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RealNetworks readies new music service
April 26, 2005
Company's "groundbreaking" announcement expected to concern a new version of its Rhapsody subscription-based music program.
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A Firefox for music?
December 22, 2005
The Pioneers of the Inevitable are taking aim at iTunes, with open-source music software called Songbird.
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Mozilla Corp.
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Yahoo! Inc.
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Microsoft Corp.
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MP3 insider: iPod beats satellite radio any day
December 20, 2004
CNET's Eliot Van Buskirk tries out the world's first portable satellite radio receiver, and regrets it almost immediately.
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RealNetworks moves Rhapsody to the Web
December 5, 2005
Along with first fruits of Microsoft deal, RealNetworks' core music subscription service gets an online makeover.
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