MP3 Players

Yeah, yeah, yeah! The Beatles hit iTunes

Apple is about to announce that its iTunes store will begin selling music by The Beatles, according to a report by <i>The Wall Street Journal

Sorry Apple, Twitter won't save Ping

Apple's Ping is no longer afraid of the World Wide Web.

OXX Pocket DAB+ digital radio

The OXX Digital Pocket is exactly what a portable digital radio should be.

ZTE Peel allows 3G access on iPod, hits Nov. 14

U.S. iPod touch owners will soon be able to access the Internet without a Wi-Fi hotspot by using a new add-on being launched on Sunday by Sprint and Chinese network supplier ZTE.

Since its founding in 1946, Sony has produced some of the biggest hits in consumer electronics. Brand names like Walkman, Handycam and Trinitron helped define the company as a giant in the industry and more recent hits like Cybershot, Vaio, Bravia and PlayStation have helped keep it there. But no success story is failure-free. Let's take a look back at some Sony products that didn't win consumers' hearts and minds.

MP3 player accessories buying guide

MP3 players are one of the most popular electronic gadgets of our time, especially for music aficionados.

LimeWire's demise: We revisit six peer-to-peer file sharing services

The demise of the Gnutella client, LimeWire (a study in 2008 showed it was still the number one peer-to-peer client eight years after was first released!), has us reminiscing about some of the popular file sharing applications of the past, which opened up a whole new world of file sharing for us and expanded our musical taste.

Court orders LimeWire to cease file-sharing business

In a major victory for the music industry, a New York federal judge has ordered embattled P2P software maker LimeWire to immediately and permanently stop distributing and supporting its file-sharing software.

Revo Ikon iPod dock and digital radio

The Revo Ikon is an iPod docking station with a built-in digital radio tuner, as well as built-in networking connections that allow you to receive Internet radio and stream music from your computers. It has two 15W speakers and a 3.5in touch screen interface, but it is a small and hard-to-use interface, and the dock overall could use a better physical design.

Sony Walkman cassette player dies in Japan, lives on in U.S.

The Sony Walkman cassette player took one step closer to the grave on Monday when Sony announced it would stop selling the portable music player in Japan. The company stopped manufacturing the cassette playing Walkman for the Japanese market in April, and says it is selling through the end of its Japanese stock now. Cassette lovers in the U.S., however, have nothing to fear.

Top rated MP3 players: January 2012

These are the top rated MP3 players we've reviewed in the last year.

Top rated MP3 players and digital radios: August 2011

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