Mobile Music & The Ipod Frenzy: 08/29/05

Monday, August 29, 2005

Settlement reached in class-action iPod battery suit (Tom's Hardware Guide)

A San Mateo County judge on Thursday approved the settlement of a class action lawsuit that will allow as many as 1.3 million owners of iPod music players to replace defective batteries on maker Apple's tab.
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Apple to Help Replace Batteries in Early IPods (Los Angeles Times)

Apple Computer Inc. will help pay to replace defective batteries in as many as 1.3 million iPod music players after a judge approved the settlement of a class-action lawsuit against the Cupertino, Calif.-based company.
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SOME IPOD BATTERIES DEEMED DEFECTIVE (KFDX Newscenter 3)

Apple is replacing defective batteries in more than one million iPods. A lawsuit is prompting the move. Investigators found that the first three models of the music player had defective batteries that did not work as long as advertised.
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More Than 1 Million iPod Owners Can Replace Batteries On Apple's Dime (The Denver Channel)

More than 1 million owners of iPod music players will be able to replace their defective batteries on Apple's dime.
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Settlement Gives iPod Users Free Replacement Batteries (Channel 3000)

As many as 1.3 million owners of iPod music players will be able to replace their defective batteries on Apple's dime.
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Settlement gives iPod users free replacement batteries (KESQ)

SAN MATEO, Calif. More than one (m) million owners of iPod music players will be able to replace their defective batteries on Apple's dime, after a judge approved the settlement of a class-action lawsuit against the company.
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Judge Orders Apple to Pay Up For Bad iPod Batteries (TechWeb)

A California judge last week formally approved the settlement in a class action suit against Apple Computer that will help pay for as many as 1.3 million defective batteries in the company's popular iPod music player.
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Settlement gives iPod users free replacement batteries (North County Times)

SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) -- As many as 1.3 million owners of iPod music players will be able to replace their defective batteries on Apple's dime, after a judge approved the settlement of a class-action lawsuit against the company.
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Settlement Gives iPod Users Free Replacement Batteries (NBC 11 Bay Area)

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- More than 1 million owners of iPod music players will be able to replace their defective batteries on Apple's dime, after a judge approved the settlement of a class-action lawsuit against the company.
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Settlement Gives iPod Users Free Replacement Batteries

More than 1 million owners of iPod music players will be able to replace their defective batteries on Apple's dime, after a judge approved the settlement of a class-action lawsuit against the company.
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Apple to Fund iPod Battery Replacements

San Mateo, CA (AHN) - A lawsuit against Apple has been settled with a judge's approvement of Apple's funding the replacement of more than 1 million iPod music player owners' defective batteries. The lawsuit claimed that Apple failed to disclose battery limitations on its first three iPod models. - Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:00:14 GMT
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TV Experiments With Audio Podcasting

Podcasting is turning conventional wisdom about TV broadcasting on its head, as thousands of people sign up to download and listen to free, audio-only versions of their favorite shows or special MP3-only programming, Wired News reports. ... the Press' regularly makes the iTunes list of the top 100 podcasts ...
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Digital competitors ready to take bite out of Apple

SAN FRANCISCO (Billboard) - Enjoy it while it lasts. ... domination by the iPod and iTunes. Apple's successful ... podcasting from a cool-sounding technology that nobody used to a legitimate format by adding it to the new version of iTunes ...
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CORRECTED: Digital competitors ready to take bite out of Apple

By Antony Bruno SAN FRANCISCO (Billboard) - Enjoy it while it lasts. ... domination by the iPod and iTunes. Apple's successful ... podcasting from a cool-sounding technology that nobody used to a legitimate format by adding it to the new version of iTunes ...
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Digital music king may lose crown

SAN FRANCISCO, California (Billboard) -- Enjoy it while it lasts. ... domination by the iPod and iTunes. Apple's successful ... podcasting from a cool-sounding technology that nobody used to a legitimate format by adding it to the new version of iTunes ...
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Indie casts and iTunes

... Indie casts and iTunes For the record, the iTunes Music Store ... As they join iTunes, they're squeezing out many of the do-it-yourselfers who evangelized podcasting. Once a ...
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News: Mix: Audiobooks, Party Shuffle, Godcasting, Mac OS X 10.5

... article on the iTunes Party Shuffle feature. iTunes ... iTunes uses to pick what comes next in the playlist. The New York Times looks at how religious groups are embracing podcasting ...
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MultiVu Begins Podcasting

NEW YORK, Aug. ... NYW077LOGO ) In addition, MultiVu is also podcasting PR Newswire's Broadcast Minute report, an ... prnewswire.com and Apple's iTunes Database. By 'podcasting' this content, MultiVu is ...
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Here's a primer for potential podcasters

... The most popular aggregators are Apple's iTunes (www.itunes.com) and ipodder .org (www.ipodder.org). advertisement ... This is in addition to its iTunes podcasting site. ...
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O'Reilly Radar > Podcast support in next version of iTunes

... version of iTunes: from Audioblogging 2.0 [Read More] Tracked on May 23, 2005 03:55 AM � iTunes and Podcasting from house of warwick Reading Scripting News this morning, Dave points to some info about ...
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Burning Questions - The Official FeedBurner Weblog: Podcasting Made ...

... www.mxlpodcast.blogspot.com Posted by: Alexis at July 4, 2005 02:36 PM Yeaaaa!!! Odeo and iTunes Podcasting support!!! Posted by: Raymond Brigleb at July 5, 2005 12:01 PM I updated my podcast info for ...
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Russell Beattie Notebook � iTunes Podcasting: Wow!

... My online notebook with thoughts, comments, links and more. Main Archive Search Links About iTunes Podcasting: Wow! Posted on Tuesday, June 28th, 2005 10:01 AM I?m sure every other blogger and their mother ...
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Playlist: iTunes 4.9 First Look: Apple takes on Podcasting

... have been downloaded through a podcasting client, such as iPodder or iPodderX . Now, iTunes and podcasting are one, completing a seemingly inevitable union. Here?s what you can expect when searching ...
MSN web: http://playlistmag.com/features/2005/06/podcastingfirstlook/index.php

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Itunes Podcasting: The latest Podcasting and Podcast news for Itunes.

... podcasting, itunes podcast, ipod itunes, itunes, ipod, rss feed, xml feed, adam curry Itunes Podcasting, get all the latest podcasting news here. Top itunes ipod podcasts, info on podcasting and ...
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Wired News: ITunes Mints Podcasting Stars

... Wire service news & photos Wired Magazine HotBot (the Web) ITunes Mints Podcasting Stars Page 1 of 2 next � By Steve Friess | Also by this reporter 02:00 AM Jul. 18, 2005 PT Self-proclaimed tech geek ...
MSN web: http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,68185,00.html

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Apple (UK and Ireland) - iTunes - Podcasting

... Choose the time. Choose the place. Choose the show. Save for later or listen now. Podcasting makes it possible. iTunes makes it easy. Radio Is Finally Free Podcasting is radio your way. Defy programming ...
MSN web: http://www.apple.com/uk/podcasting

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What I Don't Like About Podcasts

I love content. I collect books, music, DVDs, and I have a massive list of RSS feeds I look at on a semi-regular basis in my reader. However, I don't have a big pile of podcasts. Podcasts are like blogs, they put out real-time interesting information from a giant variety of diverse sources. However, podcasts are not like web pages, RSS feeds, CDs or books. It's hard to jump to the parts you like ... (more)

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It's official

I have WAY too much music.And I want to sort out this new iTunes does podcasting lark. Gimme In Our Time dammit!
blogdigger: http://swiv.blogspot.com/2005/08/its-official.html

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How do non-geeks survive these days?

I just blogged about my PocketPC getting The Wipe, requiring a complete reload from a backup file which I failed to make. Complicating matters is that my CD drive crapped out the other day. Whether the two incidents are related, I don't know. Today, Sunday, was when I planned to get my computer back to 100% in preparation for another work week. Besides, I couldn't import a ... (more)

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Winer on the Kleiner-Podshow-Google Podcasting Mini-Bubble

IMG_2788 Originally uploaded by Merina. From scripting.com : "Speaking of the online music biz, here's why Kleiner-Perkins invested in Podshow . First, a caveat, this is just tea-leave-reading and wild speculation. OK, as reported here in June, Google has an iTunes clone in the works . Probably works great with cell phones, unlike iTunes itself which works great with iPods (of course). KP has the ... (more)

blogdigger: http://benbarren.blogspot.com/2005/08/winer-on-kleiner-podshow-google.html

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IT Conversations News: August 28, 2005

(Hear the MP3 version with additional commentary in beautiful monophonic audio.) News and Housekeeping Gone Fishing? Not quite, but I did miss publishing an Update last week, as I spent the weekend at FOO Camp (Friends of O’Reilly) in Sebastopol, California. IT was a great opportunity to meet with some very smart people. Our plans for the new non-profit IT Conversations were discussed and v ... (more)

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It's your weekly best of Weblogs, Inc.

The Weblogs, Inc. network features over 100 independent, unfiltered bloggers producing over 1,000 blog posts a week across over 75 industry-leading blogs. Each week we ask our bloggers to choose their top posts, which we bring to you in one easy-to-read weekly post. You?ll find links to the hottest posts from the past week after the jump including a review of Google Talk, the latest television sp ... (more)

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Autoblog Podcast 13

Yeah, yeah, we took a short hiatus, but we’re back into the swing of things. Here is Podcast 13, and in this podcast we discuss such poignant topics as the new CAFE standards for light trucks, plug-in hybrids, the Woodward Dream Cruise, and the Autoblog Garage Mustang GT Convertible. You can subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes here. Unfortunately, those guys at the Apple iTunes Music Store r ... (more)

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Podcast/Web Hosting :: RE: How to add flash player for streaming .mp3 files in my blog?

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iTunes Podcast Directory Listing Anomalies

Explanation of the problems and limitations of the iTunes Podcast Directory interface.. This item belongs to: text/ourmedia. This item has files of the following types: pdf
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Harry Potter news goes on the road with iTunes (Harry Potter Automatic News Aggregator)

Podcasting, the act of recording audio and publishing it for use with Apple's iPod and other portable media devices, has hit the Harry Potter world by storm. MuggleNet and The Leaky Cauldron have introduced MuggleCast and PotterCast, respectively. Each contain weekly roundups of Harry Potter news, with interviews, analysis and summaries of the latest hot topics.
yahoo news: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/itunes+podcasting/SIG=118p8oofc/*http%3A//www.hpana.com/news.18761.html

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Filter MagCast on iTunes Now! (Filter Magazine)

Filter MagCast on iTunes Now! The very first and very official (uh... sure) Filter MagCast podcast is now up and available on iTunes and available for download here. Now you can have the cream of the crop of Filter's picks in your hands and on your iPod.
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Will Podcasting Pay? (Linux Pipeline)

Podcasting started from the same open-source origins as blogging and RSS feeds. Today, however, like its cousins, companies ranging from IBM and Oracle to Purina and Absolut Spirits are looking for ways to put a commercial spin on podcast content.
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Finding Profits In Podcasting (TechWeb via Yahoo! News)

Podcasting's origin is in Web radio and audio blogs. Now companies like IBM, Oracle, and Purina are using podcasting to hawk their wares, and Absolut Spirits Co. is placing ads within podcasts.
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Apple launches its Podcast Directory service in Taiwan

Apple launches its Podcast Directory service in Taiwan Apple Computer Inc yesterday introduced a broadcast feature to its red-hot iPod digital music players in Taiwan, hoping to secure a bigger market among music lovers locally. ... The feature, Podcast Directory service, is an audio program that users pull ...
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iTunes Podcast Directory Comes to Taiwan

iTunes Podcast Directory Comes to Taiwan August 25, 2005 The reports that Apple has introduced its podcast directory service in Taiwan. '
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LearnOutLoud.com Launches Internet's First Directory of Educational and Self-Development Podcasts

Unlike other podcast directories, LearnOutLoud.com's directory is not a free-for-all directory. Rather, all podcasts have been hand-picked to ensure quality of content and production. ' ... this with our directory.' Features of LearnOutLoud.com's podcast directory include 1-click ...
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Directory Site Intros Podcast Search Web Service

... lets developers integrate Digital Podcast's directory search capabilities directly into applications ... keyword search of the podcast directory by relevance, listener subscription rate ...
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Gold Star Mom Denounces Censorship of Sheehan Ad

... most Mac and Windows XP audio players.) Podcast. A podcast is a way to subscribe to and ... in the iTunes podcast directory. ( If you use other podcast software such as ...
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Mobile Music & The Ipod Frenzy