An NVIDIA Tegra chipset pumping away at the heart of a portable media player is no guarantee of success. See, there's this little thing called software and Samsung's YP-M1 , aka Beat Player M1, still needs some tweaking. It's not awful, but the performance isn't even close to being Zune HD-like . Perhaps Samsung's using a weaker Tegra system-on-chip . We don't know. We're told that these are ...

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"After having a day to reflect on Microsoft's latest Zune offering, I began to think that perhaps the iPod vs. Zune battle is a little too obvious. Whether the iPod's position at the top of the MP3 player food chain is deserved or not, history has shown us that it will likely stay there.

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Everyone knows Apple is No. 1 in digital media players. Number two will surprise you.

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Blog: Microsoft's Zune killed the PlaysForSure initiative, and now Samsung is striking out with its own music store.

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With Apple's products garnering so much attention these days, the company's biggest competitors have been busily designing new gadgets to steal some of that limelight. Microsoft's Zune didn't turn out to be the iPod killer that some had predicted it would be, but Samsung is ready to launch a new smartphone that it hopes will turn out to be an iPhone killer. On Thursday, Samsung announced a new ...

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With Apple's products garnering so much attention these days, the company's biggest competitors have been busily designing new gadgets to steal some of that limelight. Microsoft's Zune didn't turn out to be the iPod killer that some had predicted it would be, but Samsung is ready to launch a new smartphone that it hopes will turn out to be an iPhone killer.

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Steven Towns submits: Excerpt from our Wall Street Breakfast, a one-page summary of this morning's key market-moving and stock-moving stories: This Maker of Music Players Did Think Different [New York Times ] Summary: Apple says, "Think different."

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Samsung Electronics plans to introduce its own online music service to compete against Apple Computer's market-leading iTunes-iPod franchise and Microsoft's upcoming Zune music products. The South Korean-based electronics giant said last week it will work with media provider MusicNet to launch a music subscription and download service later this year.

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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to introduce its own online music service to compete against Apple Computer Inc.'s market-leading iTunes-iPod franchise and Microsoft Corp.'s upcoming Zune music products. The South Korean-based electronics giant said Friday it will work with media provider MusicNet to launch a music subscription and download service later this year in the United Kingdom,

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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to introduce its own online music service to compete against Apple Computer Inc.'s market-leading iTunes-iPod franchise and Microsoft Corp.'s upcoming Zune music products.

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