Apple iTunes sold 500 Millionth Song!
Jul 18, 2005 Digital Music, Related News
I never wonder it would be that fast. Apple iTunes Music Store had just sold the 500 millionth song! It’s not only the milestone of Apple but the whole digital music industry.
Amy Greer from Lafayette, Indiana won the grand prize. Amy purchased the 500 millionth song – Mississippi Girl by Faith Hill.
Who else won the 100,000 song prizes? Check it out!
Congratulation to all of the winners 
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Happy Birthday, MP3!
Jul 14, 2005 Digital Music, Related News
I’d just realized that today is MP3’s 10th birthday! On 14 July 1995, Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute chose to use the .mp3 extension for files holding audio data encoded using the MPEG standard’s Audio Layer 3 specification. The MPEG Audio Layer 3 codec was standardised in 1992.
Fraunhofer researcher Juergen Zeller broke the news ten years ago in the following email, provided by the Institute today:Date: Fri, 14 July 1995 12:29:49 +0200
Reference: Endings for Layer3: mp3
Hello,_according to the overwhelming opinion of all asking: the ending for ISO MPEG audio Layer 3 is mp3.
i.e. we should for coming www sides, Shareware,_Demos, etc. on it respect that no more bit endings rausgehen.
It has a reason, believes me : -) Juergen Zeller
A thank to Fraunhofer Institute, who brings these wonderful file extension to us. Today, MP3 still remains its unbeatable popularity among the digital audio file formats. Indirectly, the MP3 brings us to the world of P2P. Remember Napster? Although it lost the lawsuit against RIAA, the crowds are still heading to the P2P technology.
Happy birthday, MP3!
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iPod Mini Integrated with Notebook?
Jun 30, 2005 Apple, MP3 Players, Related News
According to Patent Application 20040224638, Apple may be on the path to bringing out its most unique portable computer to date. The notebook would allow for an iPod mini to double as the touch pad. The patent also talks about integrating higher RF signals into the notebook from within the cell phone range.
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Queen Elizabeth II Gets an iPod
Jun 17, 2005 Apple, Related News
Initiated into the hi-tech world by her second son Prince Andrew, the 79-year-old monarch now possesses the world’s hottest gadget, a media report said today. “The Queen loves music and was impressed by how small and handy the iPod is,” a royal insider was quoted as saying by the daily ‘Sun’. Her son or one of the courtiers may help her dowload the songs which involves a complicated process, it said.{ via The Hindu } The fever isn’t gone yet. Even the old royal nanny also get ipodized!
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Beware iPod owners!
May 28, 2005 Related News
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said the brightly coloured leads on the digital music players made it easy for criminals to spot when someone was wearing one. Sir Ian was speaking as new figures showed an increase in robbery – which includes street crime and the theft of personal items – of 26.4% in London in April compared to the same month last year. “In street robbery our concern has been around the smaller portable pieces of kit – the new generation of mobile phones and iPods. “They have different coloured leads, it is very obvious when someone is wearing an iPod. That is what is fuelling this.”{ via Manchester Evening News } Is the world crazy about iPod? When will this fever be over? Anyway, it is not good for you to overly show off of yourselves. No matter what it is, not just iPod!
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