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iTunes Match vs. Google Music: Which One Should You Choose?

The real challenge to Google Music isn’t iTunes Match, it’s Google itself
- By Peter Pachal
- Posted November 17, 2011
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It’s been a big week for digital music. First Apple finally rolled out iTunes Match, the final link in its chain of cloud services, allowing users to get anytime, anywhere access to all those songs they ripped from CDs over the years or acquired by, uh, let’s say “other means.” Then on Wednesday Google unveiled Google Music, its fully armed and operational online music store.

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Follow the Money

Desperately seeking a better sales pitch, or at least a decent come-on line.
- By Ken C. Pohlmann
- Posted November 10, 2011
What do TVs and music sales have in common? They are both big businesses, and both markets are rapidly shifting the money from Old Business companies and business models to New Business companies and business models. And some major players are getting left behind.

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Review: Libratone Live

A compact sound system combines Euro design, Danish engineering, and Apple AirPlay
- By Brent Butterworth
- Posted October 26, 2011
Just three years after the iPod ruled the audio industry, manufacturers are starting to look on it as a quaint “legacy device,” one they have to accommodate for customers who just aren’t with it. The iPod’s being replaced as our primary music source by all sorts of wireless stuff, like smartphones, Bluetooth-equipped computers, and routers connected to network-attached storage (NAS) drives.

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Curvaceous Docks: Monitor Audio i-Deck 100 and 200, Now Available

Curvy design and engineering twists for a pair of new iOS docks
- By Michael Berk
- Posted October 25, 2011
British manufacturer Monitor Audio has a deserved reputation for well-designed, high-performing speaker systems, and the latest offerings in the company's line of iOS device docks, the i-deck 100 and 200, follow in those footsteps. And now they can be yours.

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$*!t Your Home Theater Says

Saving the A/V industry: Am I a genius or what?
- By Ken C. Pohlmann
- Posted October 20, 2011
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The iPhone 4S was released last week. Of course, people were camping out at Apple stores to buy it. Of course, Apple sold a zillion of them in the first five minutes. Of course, you already have one, and you're probably reading this blog on it.

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Steve Jobs: Fallen Giant

Observations on the end of an era
- By Leslie Shapiro
- Posted October 6, 2011
The death of Steve Jobs was covered by the media in a manner usually reserved for heads of state. But, the truth is that he probably affected your life more deeply than most presidents or prime ministers. If you use Apple products, you hold the contours, colors, buttons, and menus that Mr. Jobs personally obsessed over and approved.

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Haters Gonna Hate

Apple is/is not your boyfriend. Plasma did/didn't murder your puppy.
- By Geoffrey Morrison
- Posted September 23, 2011
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I don't understand some people. Ok, a lot of people. Internet people, mostly. The type of people with the need to proselytize their views about meaningless crap.
You know, like what I do. Only, not paid.
These malcontents have a passion for posting vitriol wherever their sensibilities about good and bad companies/products/technologies are impugned.
To which I say, WTF?

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Totally Wireless: iHome's iW1 Portable AirPlay Speaker

It may have been a long wait, but iHome's the first to market with a battery-powered AirPlay speaker
- By Michael Berk
- Posted September 23, 2011
Been looking for a portable speaker system to go along with your iOS device? iHome's long-awaited iW1 battery-powered AirPlay speaker is finally here. The iW1 was one of the first announced AirPlay speakers — and while it was slow out of the gate, it's now set to be the first available truly wireless AirPlay device.

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InCase Debuts their Audio Collection Headphone Line

The Apple accessories manufacturer joins the headphone fray
- By Michael Berk
- Posted September 13, 2011
It's curious enough to find venerable speaker companies getting into the headphone business, but the announcement today by Apple accessories specialists InCase of an all-new — and very complete — line of headphones is even more of a surprise.

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Apple: Obscured by Clouds

What'll emerge as the company's music and video strategies take shape in the post-Jobs era? Analysts have some ideas.
- By Michael Berk
- Posted August 30, 2011
Steve Jobs may have moved on, but Apple's quickly returned to shaking up the music and movie industries in the good old-fashioned way: with beta releases and rumors.

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OpEd: Ownership in the Age of the Cloud

Is convenience just another word for nothing left to lose?
- By Geoffrey Morrison
- Posted July 6, 2011
I am not a luddite. In fact, barring cybernetic augmentations (bring 'em on), I'd say I'm about as far from a luddite as one could be. I love technology. Thanks to my job, I'm often the first of my circle to have the latest gadget. I've got tons of Apple iStuff, a beloved Android phone, an oversized HDTV, 18MP DSLR, and yadda yadda.
Yet, I still buy CDs.

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AppRadio: Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the touchscreen

Pioneer brings iOS functionality to the dashboard.
- By Michael Berk
- Posted June 23, 2011
Pioneer launched its AppRadio yesterday at the CE Week, with the long-awaited iOS-integrated device coming in at an intriguingly low price of $399.99.

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