Top 6 Reasons Why the Zune Could Fail by Stephane Dion
1. Battery Life Battery life was a major issue when the iPod came out. Now, they managed to have a decent playing time with most of their models. The Zune needs to provide a battery life similar to the iPod. We already know that both players have the same kind of battery. ... The seamless integration of iTunes with the iPod is certainly the top reason why the iPod was a huge success. ... Prototype look & feel Even more with the brand new design of the iPod, Zune fans are expecting a very attractive and professional design from the Zune.

The Ultimate Guide to Video iPod by Ian Richardson
Alright. So after all that hype about having a practical way of watching TV and movies while on the go, you have finally gone and bought yourself the new iPod. Now what? Well, let’s see. There are so many options squeezed into one slim, 2.5” LCD screen media center that it’s going to take a lot... Tip #2 – Add Video to the iTunes Library The other way of finding out if your video files are iPod compatible is to add your video to your iTunes library. ... When you convert that to iPod using H.264 codec, the process could take considerably longer (especially with QuickTime Pro’s pokey...

iTunes Fails In Motorola Rokr Cell Phone Bid by Damian Julien
Marrying iTunes capability with Motorola Rokr cell phones was theoretically quite sound. MacNewsWorld has reported, however, that the new Rokr phones by Motorola are proving to be virtual hot potatos. The mobile phone return rate is roughly six times the usual for these new iTunes phones,... Apple blames a poor marketing campaign, but it really seems like a case of bad timing with the video iPod newcomer knocking the Rokr to its knees. ... The Rokr iTunes phone only stores roughly 100 songs, a tiny portion of the relatively gigantic iPod storage capability.

Apple iPod - Why Apple Dominates the Mobile MP3 Player Market by Donny Duncan
Noticing a growing market for mobile MP3 players, Apple released the original iPod in late 2001, and it was quickly destined to be a huge success. It was exactly what people wanted.. It had a simple interface, it had a large storage capacity, and it was extremely attractive and recognizable. ... iPod Video - This was a replacement for the basic iPod, and the most recent addition to the iPod family of products. ... The iPod has created a whole slew of other markets as well, from audio companies implementing ipod connectivity support in car radios, clothes companies creating ipod pockets,...

How to Live without Your iPod by John T Jones, Ph.D.
For the price of your monthly car payment you can buy an iPod®. It will store your music and video. If you go on vacation, it will store the shots from your camera–unless you have one of those ancient critters that uses film. The last feature strikes at this old man’s heart. ... Anyway, if I did have an iPod® I would just lose it. ... Here is a list of things to do while scheming to get your folks to fork up the dough to buy you another iPod®: Write that term paper for your English Class that was due last week.

iPod Microsoft's Competitor by Jose Luis Valcarcel
Microsoft would be gliding to implement a wireless tool in the new reproducer, that would allow the users to unload music and videos without cables, in agreement with one of the sources. During the last weeks, the company has tried to sell the new reproducer to record companies, thus like a new... IPod controls more than half of the market of the digital reproducers, in agreement with numbers of the company/signature of studies NPD, whereas iTunes represents near the 70 percent of the sales of digital music in the United States.

The Hottest Electronic Product in America and Why by John Tucker
If you are a person who reads newspapers, especially the “USA Today,” and the “Wall Street Journal,” you will observe many advertisements for this product, along with hundreds of articles explaining how to use the product . . . If you read the monthly or weekly, news magazines such as;... There is the ipod nano, ipod shuffle, and the Apple ipod.. ... The latest top of the line ipod’s have digital musical video capacity with a two inch (2"0) up to a two an half inch (2.5") colored display. ... The least expensive ipod an be purchased starting at around $ 69.00 dollars and increasing to $...

News for Pocket PC Video Fanatics by Damian Julien
I'm getting a bit tired of all the iPod coverage in the press recently, including my own iPod versus PDA article recently. This has just been tempered with excellent technology news for the Pocket PC video playback freaks among us. If you've spent most of your waking life waiting for videos to... Jason Cross reported on the ExtremeTech site that their new Radeon X1800 XT video card can quite possibly make ATI the king of the video encoder mountain. ... ATI has introduced GPU-acclerated video transcoding in its latest video card for digital media hounds.

What's In An iPod - And Why Is It So Popular? by Mike Singh
Not only is the iPod popular because of its reception from the public, but also because it was Apple's first and successful attempt at branching out from its iMac products and a reputation of being strictly "computer". Unlike the iPod nano and the iPod shuffle which use flash memory, the iPod is... As of now there are four basic iPod models that you can find on major shopping websites: the iPod shuffle, iPod nano, iPod photo, and the brand new iPod video. ... The iPod's software for the iPod development was not developed in-house for this, but contracted PortalPlayer, who already had the...

The Ultimate IPod Video Experience by Thomas Herold
Yesterday my new 5th generation iPod video arrived. As I had an iPod before I was eager to check out the video capability. So my first shot was going on iTunes and trying to find some free stuff. Besides the ‘Tiki Bar’ video podcast I couldn’t really find something for free. ... In my second approach I punched in some keywords in Google: - video podcast - free iPod movies - convert iPod movies No luck at all, it seemed to me this video revolution has just kicked off. ... A quick search in Google turned up with a view models: Innovatek V-190 Video Glasses A personal video viewing...