Back when the MP3 market was young, Dell tried to be a player with the Dell DJ. Oprah liked it and, frankly, so did we. But it crashed and burned while Apple sewed things up to the point where even Microsoft's Zune is a distant also-ran. So, naturally, Dell wants back in now, five years later. We who are about to die salute you!

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The response to the third-generation iPod nano has been a bit of a mixed bag, so it seems that Apple is going back to the longer shape found on the first two generations.

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It's interesting the iPod has been out for three years and it's only this past year it's become a raging success. Well, those things that become fads rage, and then they drop off. When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman--a rage, everyone had to have one. ...

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iLounge is reporting that this year's iPod nano will have a bigger screen than the current generation, with the same 1.5:1 widescreen aspect ratio as the iPhone and iPod touch. In order to cram in...

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Apple, if this has all been just one particularly ambitious viral marketing campaign, know that this photo would scare even the most loyal of fanboys, forcing them to boil their poor iPods for proper...

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It may be hard to believe, but from what we’ve now heard from multiple sources, it’s true: the fourth-generation iPod nano will look like… a Microsoft Zune. Well, sort of. Contradicting speculation that Apple was planning to transform the new nano into a miniature iPod touch, complete with a smaller touchscreen, we’ve been told that this year’s nano upgrade will go in a different direction. ...

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Zune-phone rumour dismissed Microsoft is unlikely to launch a Zune phone to take on Apple's iPhone, according to Jupiter Research analyst, Michael Gartenberg.

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Speculations about possible Zune-branded mobile phone from Microsoft have been discussed in the blogosphere since the iPhone was introduced last June. Microsoft on its part has avoided confirming or denying these rumors (which is usually an indication that such a device is in the works) but analysts warn that the software giant would jeopardize 20 million Windows Mobile licenses if it decided to ...

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In his apparently final transmission, the Zune Guy reveals that it wasn't just the lack of a Zune announcement at E3 that choked the last pepperoni-scented fanboy breath out of his furry, tattooed...

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Steven Smith, who you might know as the Zune Tattoo Guy, has seen the light -- and it isn't Microsoft's mp3 player. No, the ultimate Zune fanboy says he is disenchanted and that you won't have him to kick around anymore. All we can think to say is ... thanks?

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