Apple In Talks To Purchase Music Startup Lala

Apple is rumored to be close to completing the acquisition of three-year-old Palo Alto music start-up Lala. There's a lot of speculation on what this could mean in terms of the evolution of iTunes and the iPod, iPhone ecosystem.  Lala is a cloud-based music library and player— it allows users to store and stream their own music online and stream it without downloading. This would allow Apple's users access to their music libraries across multiple devices, reduce the need for large hard...

New Viewsonic VMP70 Media Player beats WD TV in Price and Features

  We love Western Digital's WD TV "direct connect" media player.  The simplicity of a tiny (two cigarette case size) box packed with every imaginable video codec, with USB connections for connecting an external hard drive and HDMI, component and S-video outs to connect to your tv,  all controllable from a cool little remote via a nifty menu system  - and ALL for around $100, is just super cool. Today, life got a little cooler.  Enter Viewsonic's VMP70 1080p media player.  What do we get...

Cowon iAudio 9 and iAudio E2 Media Players Released in US

    Cowon is releasing two of its slim media players on the US market.  The iAudio9 will be available with 8GB and 16GB versions.  It supports most media formats (MP3, FLAC, Ogg, WAV, APE, WME, XviD, and WMV videos), as well as has a composite video out. The 8GB version is $129, the 16GB is $169. The miniscule iAudio E2 is also available. This iPod shuffle competitor doesn't have video out, but has excellent sound, including 8 JetEffect audio enhancement presets (BBE, BBE VIVA, BB...