Month: January 2004
Wurlitzer goes digital
Gibson Audio – of guitar fame – has taken the old fashioned vinyl jukebox and dragged it kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Though it resembles a prop from a fifties American diner, the Wurlitzer Digital is equipped…
Sky + on your mobile?
As ever CES was awash with start up companies hoping to attract the attention of the industry big wigs with their innovative solutions. One of our favourites is called AllMiMedia from a company BravoBrava. Essentially AllMiMedia is a combination…
CES's coolest wireless device
Annoyingly many of the media centre type devices displayed at CES don't allow user to access web based content like Internet radio stations and streamed video. We think this is a huge oversight. So full marks to Actiontec for…
More MP3 from Nike
Another day, another MP3 player launch. This one comes from Philips/Nike who you may remember collaborated on a range of players a couple of years back. Now the line-up has been updated. The style remains essentially the same but…
Sony's iPod killer (again)
At CES Sony unveiled its iPod killer. Yet those hoping for a hard disk audio device to rival Apple's player were disappointed. Instead Sony unveiled an enhancement to its MiniDisc format which enables users to store up to 45…
Philips – CES details
Once again Philips is majoring its Connected Planet range of products. These are devices for the living room that enable the owner to access the cool content (in other words MP3 music, MPEG video and JPEG images) that they…
Apple unveils £199 baby iPod
As widely predicted the highlight of the Macworld Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday proved to be baby version of the iPod hard disk music player. The iPod mini is smaller and lighter than the existing iPod (though not…
CES 2004 preview
While the view from your window is probably rainy and grey, from mine the sun twinkles over the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building and the Pyramids. Yes it is the start of January, which means one thing -…
Creative's big capacity small player
The difference between tiny MP3 players and larger capacity MP3 jukeboxes continues to blur with Creative announcing the impending arrival of a small player with a 4Gigabyte hard disk. Due to go on sale very shortly the Creative MuVo…
South Korea goes 4G
While 2004 is set to be a big year for the mobile phone industry with the launch of a host of 3G services from Vodafone, Orange and other networks, we have got a long way to go to keep…