Kids Want it Customized (Hornell Evening Tribune)
MP3 and iPods and life - still in the news! Read about it below.
(ARA) - Gen Y is quickly becoming known as the Customization Generation. Their cell phones are programmed with customized ringtones, their MP3 players are stocked with customized playlists and their blogs are custom-designed for self-expression.Kids Want it Customized (Hornell Evening Tribune)
In what can be seen as either a joke or a real attempt to get employees to give up Apple iPods in favor of the Zune MP3 player, the team at Microsoft that builds Zune has set up a bin at its headquarters so employees can drop in iPods they don’t want to use anymore.Microsoft offers Zune team ‘iPod Amnesty Bin’ (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News)
D’Accord Music Software announces an innovative software - iChords - that recognizes and presents chords from any MP3, WMA files or CDs.D’Accord Music Software Debuts iChords Transcription Software (Harmony Central)
Media & professional: File-sharing has holed the record industry below the waterline. So why does private equity guru Guy Hands want to buy EMI?Pirates still have all the best tunes (Guardian Unlimited)
( InfoWorld ) - In what can be seen as either a joke or a real attempt to get employees to give up Apple iPods in favor of the Zune MP3 player, the team at Microsoft that builds Zune has set up a bin at its headquarters so employees can drop in iPods they don’t want to use anymore. A photo of the “iPod Amnesty Bin” , which has on it an image of a bitten green apple and the words “Bite …Microsoft offers Zune team ‘iPod Amnesty Bin’ (InfoWorld)
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