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Olive 4 HD Music Player Brings Minor Updates, Now Costs $US2000
3:30PM Dan Nosowitz | The Olive 4 HD isn’t too different from the Olive Opus N4 we saw back in July, but has a few nice additions and a steeper price: The 2TB version now comes in at $US2000. Youch. More »
Software
An Early Video Peek At LaLa’s Übercheap Music App
2:25AM John Herrman | The latest news, in The Week Of The LaLa: the company’s long-promised iPhone app, which would bring the bizarre play-a-song-once-for-free-then-pay-10-cents model to mobile, has been submitted to Apple. And assuming they don’t abort it, this is what it’ll look like. More »
Music
How Will Google’s Rumoured Music Service Work? (Update)
12:13AM John Herrman | Earlier this year, Google launched an iTunes-style music download service in China. The twist? All the music was free. Now, Techcrunch says a US launch of a Google music service is imminent. Could it be free, too? Doubtful. More »
Music
7:50PM John Herrman | It’s fair to say that everyone would’ve loved it if the last remote for the Sonos wireless media systems, the $US400 C100, had a touchscreen. It didn’t. Years later, the CR200 does, but it might be a bit late. More »
Sonos Remote Goes Touchscreen; New System Bundle On Its Way
7:50PM John Herrman | It’s fair to say that everyone would’ve loved it if the last remote for the Sonos wireless media systems, the $US400 C100, had a touchscreen. It didn’t. Years later, the CR200 does, but it might be a bit late. More »
Random Stuff
Is Napster Making An IPhone App?
7:21PM John Herrman | Giz reader and champion Craiglist peruser Andrew F. happened across a job posting from Napster, asking for a software engineer with experience in “Mac/iPhone OS X Development.” Such a posting might not normally be worth getting too excited over—after all, everyone’s making iPhone apps nowadays—but Napster just launched a new, cheap unlimited streaming service last month. Five bucks a month for instant access to seven million songs (plus downloads) is a solid deal as is; throw in an iPhone client and it’d be a great one. [Craigslist—Thanks, Andrew!]
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