CNET Australia spots photos on the Web site of accessories maker Cygnett ahead of Apple's rock 'n' roll event Wednesday. And iPod price cuts found on Apple's site.

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We're still hours away from Apple's event today in San Francisco, but that apparently hasn't stopped the company from releasing some changes in its own store . The main thing to note is the prices of the various iPod lines, especially the iPod touch. Yesterday, a 32 GB iPod touch was $399. Today? $279. Yesterday, a 16 GB version was $299. Today? $249. The 8 GB one is now only $189, down from ...

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When Apple first introduced its iPod touch -- a media player that uses the same cool touch technology as the breakthrough iPhone -- I was both intrigued and disappointed. While I didn't care much for the iPhone itself the notion of a touch-based device that focuses just on movies, music and WiFi Web access called to me. What gave me pause, though, was its limited storage capacity and price.

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Apple's silver 4GB iPod nano topped Amazon's best seller electronics list on Christmas Eve. iPods managed to land in five of the top ten slots on December 24 while Microsoft's Zune came in with a distant 17th place

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Early reviews of Microsoft's imminent Zune 80 are giving it an overall higher score than Apple's iPod classic, according to their respective sources. Reviews from mainstream sites such as CNET, PC Magazine, PCWorld, and YahooTech all note that the hard disk-based version of the player appears to have addressed most of the complaints about the devi...

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The new Wi-Fi-enabled iPod is a "touch" disappointing.

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The long-awaited Wi-Fi-enabled iPod is finally here, but it's taken a different form from what most of us would have guessed. The iPod Touch doesn't resemble a classic iPod at all, but is instead a stripped-down, slimmed-down iPhone.

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Universal comes up with a dull strategy to try to tarnish Apple's shine.

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Faced with major competition from Amazon's Music Store, Universal's possible Total Music free service, and others, Apple's said Tuesday it is lowering the price of songs without copy protection.

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When Microsoft announced the new Zune earlier this month, they also announced that the first-generation Zune could effectively get the new software free of charge. Apple hasn't been quite as nice with the iPod Classic, but the hackers, modders, and jailbreakers in the audience will not stand for it.

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