Sure, most of us satisfy our music-listening needs these days using our phones, tablets, and smart speakers, but that doesn't mean a dedicated MP3 player or portable music player is a completely ...

Ever since Sony introduced me to portable music with its iconic Walkman series, my enormous collection of tunes has never been far from reach. I've been through tape cassette players, mini-Disc and CD ...

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CARLSBAD, Calif. - Dec. 14, 2004 - Digital Mind Corporation (DMC), the California based technology company that recently released the world's first 100GB portable audio player, today announced the ...

Alarm clocks, maps, books, flashlights, watches, radios, MP3 players, Palm Pilots, remote controls, cameras, handheld recorders and other devices have all been gradually absorbed into a single one: ...

Oct. 23, 2001 -- Apple Computer is trying to byte into the consumer music market. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company has introduced its new iPod, a portable music player that stores digital songs in ...

Now that our smartphones are able to stream or play just about any form of media, one might think that the days of the dedicated MP3 player are over. After all, the most popular one of all time, the ...

August 13, 2006 With MP3 player sales booming and threatening to become a disruptive media technology, the BBC is planning to develop a “plug-in gadget that turns MP3 players into digital radios.” ...

Though it seems as if the iPod has been around forever, the device is actually only eight years old as of last week. Portable digital music players in general aren’t much older, as the first clunky, ...

The portable digital audio player (aka the MP3 player) has come along way since its inception. Back in the day, most MP3 players were equipped with either a paltry amount of flash memory (less than ...