The MP3 file format was always encumbered with patents, but as of 2017, the last patent finally expired. Although the format became synonymous with the digital music revolution that started in the ...

Back in the day the Apple iPod was the personal music player (PMP) to get even if mostly because everyone and their dogs had one. These days most people just use their smartphone as a PMP ...

I love my iPod. My little red 5th generation Apple MP3 player is still a device that lives in my pocket, perfect for whenever I want to listen to top-quality wired music on the go. Sure ...

The iPod was a truly revolutionary piece of technology. Though portable digital music players had existed for nearly a decade before Apple unveiled the first iPod in 2001, the now-iconic portable ...

In 2006 — just a year before the iPhone appeared — a slightly-under-the-weather Steve Jobs introduced the $349 iPod Hi-Fi. Jobs opened his pitch praising Apple for making music mobile with the iPod, ...

Kim: But sales have been in decline for over a decade. How did the iPod go from being one of the most popular gadgets to being basically nonexistent? In 1999, the US music industry had its biggest ...

In the world of Apple products, the iPod mini is an example of the latter. It’s perhaps the best example of Apple killing one of its darlings. The iPod mini was introduced at Macworld San Francisco in ...

Filip_Krstic/istockphotoDig out those old electronics stashed away in the attic — they just might be worth a small fortune ...

Steve Jobs was well-known to prove a point in a memorable way, and that was certainly the case when Apple was designing the first iPod. Former Apple employee Amit Chaudhary recently wrote about ...

IRE (60D: "Smoke coming out of your ears" feeling) The iPOD SHUFFLE was discontinued in 2017, but it lives on as the theme for today's puzzle. The word SHUFFLE in the title alerted me to be on the ...

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