A digital music player with a hard disk. Hard disk players have always stored more songs than flash memory players; however, both storage technologies constantly improve. For example, the first iPods ...

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We continue to receive reports from users about the latest round of software updates from Apple (see yesterday's coverage). Here is the latest: Authoring Support Update 1.1 Toast Titanium 5 ...

Toshiba Corp. has announced a new hard disk-based digital music player that is both smaller and lighter than both its previous model and the competing iPod player from Apple Computer Inc. The Gigabeat ...

Sony Corp unveiled its first MP3-compatible, hard disk Walkman music player on Tuesday in an attempt to recover ground lost to Apple Computer’s iPod. The world’s biggest consumer electronics maker ...

[jbumstead] used MATLAB to convert the text messages into binary to be cut out of the disk. [jbumstead] wanted to demonstrate the idea of information-storing devices such as LPs, CDs, and old hard ...