Pioneer has introduced a new whole-house digital music system that delivers music through your household power lines. The MT-01 Power Line Sound System comes with one 2 x 25W Network Speaker, and one small 5W Network Speaker, and provides support for up to six speakers. The Sound Station is the hub, and contains five input […]

Nike + iPod owners have run over 1 million miles, equivalent to circling the world more than 40 times, in the 10 weeks since Nike and Apple launched the Nike+iPod Sport Kit. Almost 8,000 people logged runs yesterday on nikeplus.com — including an almost eight-mile run in New York, two and a half miles in […]

Disney has sold 125,000 digital copies of films through Apple Computer’s iTunes store in less than a week, generating $1 million, Disney chief executive Robert Iger said Tuesday. iTunes lets users purchase movies online that can be downloaded for viewing on a computer or on video iPods. “Clearly customers are saying to us they want […]

JVC has introduced a new line of home and portable audio products that integrate with Apple iPod digital audio players and other portable audio players. JVC’s new Made for iPod product line includes the NX-PS1 (above), a compact desktop system with a matching subwoofer; the UX-EP25, a CD micro system; the RA-P10, a low-profile boombox […]

An Engadget tipster found Wal-Mart’s entry for the Microsoft Zune portable media player, revealing a price of $284, just under the $300 that many have been expecting for the player.

Despite the issues many tech-savvy music fans have with digital rights management and encrypted media files, it looks like the future of digital music will be based on closed, proprietary systems. Apple’s iTunes/iPod combination has rapidly risen to dominance, a fact that has caused both the music industry and other portable media player vendors a […]

RealNetworks and SanDisk have announced plans to release a portable music player system that will compete with Apple’s iTunes/iPod combination and Microsoft’s Zune. The companies plan to release the Sansa Rhapsody, a portable music player based on SanDisk’s e200. The e200 series is priced starting at about $110 for a 2GB player with a color […]

A growing number of pundits are taking a pessimistic view about the prospects for Apple’s iTunes/iPod platform, suggesting that it’s doomed because of increased competition (such as the Zune), that people are shunning the iTunes store or that iPods just aren’t cool anymore. In a article in The Observer, David Smith suggests explains Why the […]

Sonos, a developer of wireless multi-room music systems, has released Sonos System Software 2.0, an update to its digital music system. The update lets you schedule daily updates to your music library, which can be used to get Audible content or podcasts. Sonos 2.0 also lets users connect directly to millions of songs and thousands […]

Some are speculating that Microsoft is abandoning its Plays for Sure partners, because the recently announced Zune media player won’t play protected Windows Media files. Audio and video files purchased or rented from Napster 2.0, Rhapsody, Yahoo! Unlimited, Movielink, Cinemanow and other Microsoft partners are sure to not play on the Zune. “The media that […]