Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
I’ve got one question for Panasonic and that is: why bother? All they had to show [via] was a lame flash-based MP3 player with only the necessary audio support (MP3, WMA DRM) and zero extras (radio? no; voice recorder? nope). It’ll come in two capacities: 1GB for the SV-MP010 and twice that for the [...]
From the “don’t you just love them big companies” department: Sony, Philips, Panasonic fined for price-fixing in France: the fines, representing 1% of the companies annual revenus in the county, are €16M for former two (each) and €2.4M for the latter.
The Conseil found that the three manufacturers had colluded with their distributors to fix the [...]
Some landline connection problems kept me offline for most of last week. I spent the weekend scanning the stories I missed—here are some worth noting:
DVD Jon comes to the US to work with MP3.com founder: why, oh why, would a wiz kid would want to partner with a man who may be bold but fails [...]