iRiver H300 Series Officially Announced

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iRiver H300 Series Player Pricing

iRiver H300 Series Player Pricing 05/28/2004 11:00 AM

DPReview has a little more information about iRiver's upcoming H300 series players, with much of the same information we reported previously, but this time with a price: ¥47,800 (~$430) for the H320 20 GB version and ¥59,800 (~$540) for the H340 40GB version. That's more expensive than the iPod, even, but you get a color screen, 16 hour battery life, and a device that meets the USB On The Go specification (USB Host, basically) so that you can connect almost any USB device to the unit and transfer files back and forth without a computer. (Thanks, Junki!)
Rea d [DPReview]

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Two Nice New Players from iRiver: iFP-900 and H300 [Gizmodo]

Two Nice New Players from iRiver:
iFP-900 and H300

Two Nice New Players from iRiver:
iFP-900 and H300 05/18/2004 07:31 AM
iRiver has two new music players coming up, both of which sport nice looking color LCD displays. The silver iFP-900 has a 1.2-inch LCD (the two units in the pictures probably definitely aren't to scale), 40 hour play time with a rechargeable battery, real time MP3 encoding from line-in, integrated...

iRiver PMP-100 Series On Sale (Maybe?
Soon? We Hope?)

iRiver PMP-100 Series On Sale (Maybe?
Soon? We Hope?) 08/03/2004 10:50 AM

iRiver's PMP-100 series portable media players have gone on sale today via the iRiver e-store, with other online retailers to follow later in the week. Two models are available for now: the PMP-120, with a 20GB hard drive; and the PMP-140, with an eight-million amazing awesomes drive (or 40GB, if you want to get all technical). Prices are $500 and $600, respectively (ouch!).

For the record, if portable video is in your sights, these are the units from iRiver you probably want. Instead of being tied to Windows Media Center (that's the PMC-100 series), they'll pretty much play whatever you decide to throw at them without a pesky transcoding. Of course, now that I've written this, I still don't see them available for purchase on the e-store, no matter what iRiver's press release might say.

Read - Press Release [MobileMag]
Read - e-Store Page [iRiverAmerica]

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New iRiver PMC-100 Pictures [Gizmodo]
iRiver PMP-140 (P)Reviewed [Gizmodo]

Update: So MobileMag informs me that iRiver informed them that the PMPs are quite literally stuck on a slow boat from China. Maybe you should have held back on the press release then, huh?

Gnomedex 4 Officially Announced

Gnomedex 4 Officially Announced 02/12/2004 10:20 PM
They said Lockergnome couldn't do it again. However, we still went ahead and booked a casino in Lake Tahoe from September 30th to October 3rd for the fourth-annual Gnomedex tech conference. This time around, we set up a THREE DAY OPEN BAR - and pre-registration is still $99! How much alcohol can you down in 72 hours? Let's not forget about the whole "technology" thing, either. We'll still have plenty of information for you to download into your soaked little skull. That, and like every respectable host, we won't start activities at the butt crack of dawn. Details will continue to roll in, but I can already see that we'll (ONCE AGAIN) give other conventions a run for their money (and value)....

RSA-576 Factorization Officially
Announced

RSA-576 Factorization Officially
Announced 04/28/2004 07:24 AM

AT&T Wireless OGO Officially Announced

AT&T Wireless OGO Officially Announced 09/27/2004 09:04 AM

Alright, we're finally good to OGO, I guess. Not much in the official press release that we didn't already know, but it's good to get official word of the pricing and what not. Looks like there's no IMAP email connectivity - that's a downer - although they mention email from "other select Internet Service Providers," including the Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL acoounts (sadly, no Gmail).

Price is set at $130 with a $30 rebate. Full release after the jump.

Motorola V635 officially announced

Motorola V635 officially announced 01/06/2005 06:51 AM
MobileTracker Jan 6 2005 10:56AM GMT

Motorola MPx220 officially announced

Motorola MPx220 officially announced 07/27/2004 02:42 AM
MobileTracker Jul 27 2004 6:05AM GMT

Canon EOS 20D Officially Announced,
Previewed

Canon EOS 20D Officially Announced,
Previewed 08/20/2004 08:05 AM

Okay! Here's that proper announcement from Canon we were expecting about the EOS 20D. The 8-megapixel digital SLR definitely ups the ante in the whole Canon/Nikon game. I can't wait to see some proper reviews.

The EOS 20D wasn't the only Canon announced, though, with the seven-megapixel G6, five-megapixel A95, and three-megapixel A400 all showing up in one form or another, too. There are reviews of almost all of the cameras (except the 20D, of course) out today, and Photography Blog has a nice collection of links that they'll keep adding to throughout the day if you'd like to toss them some links.

Oh, and even thought DPReview has been told not to post sample images of the D20, Canon Japan has three sample shots you can chew on for now. The fruit and ice one made me giggle a little.

Read - Canon EOS 20D (P)Review [DPReview]
Read - Canon Review Roundup [PhotographyBlog]
L ook - 20D Sample Images [CanonJP]

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Canon's EOS 20D Pictures and Specs Leaked [Gizmodo]

Neverwinter Nights 2 Officially
Announced

Neverwinter Nights 2 Officially
Announced 08/04/2004 03:13 PM

HP officially pulls plug on e3000 series

HP officially pulls plug on e3000 series 10/31/2003 05:14 PM
As of today, Hewlett-Packard is ending sales of its midrange e3000 systems. Loyal fans are marking the event with wakes, barbecues and drinks.

Windows XP SP2 Beta-1 & WU5 Preview
Officially Announced

Windows XP SP2 Beta-1 & WU5 Preview
Officially Announced 12/19/2003 11:25 AM

Smaller Networked Sony "PStwo"
Officially Announced

Smaller Networked Sony "PStwo"
Officially Announced 09/21/2004 08:21 AM

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GPU Family
Officially Announced

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GPU Family
Officially Announced 04/13/2004 09:53 AM

TiVo Lives: Comcast Partnership
Officially Announced

TiVo Lives: Comcast Partnership
Officially Announced 03/17/2005 03:52 AM

Well just leave it to everyone's favorite DVR company to wait until the 11th hour to find a way to resurrect themselves. TiVo and Comcast today announced a strategic partnership wherein TiVo will develop new software to be integrated into Comcast's existing DVR platform. TiVo's vice chairman toyed a bit with grand understatements:

It is very important that TiVo has found a way to work with the nation's largest cable operator on a cooperative basis to develop a state-of-the-art TiVo Service, fully integrated with a cable set-top box, that will make TiVo available to millions of cable viewers.

As a TiVo subscriber and one of those loyal fans you hear so much about (or from, rather), I didn't want to believe the reports about TiVo's forthcoming demise. Rather, I grabbed onto whatever thread of sunshine I could, praying TiVo wouldn't fall asunder. Just like an old-time Nintendo fan, (which I also am) my blind loyalty has paid off, at least for now, and TiVo will live to see another day. Besides, I actually enjoy using TivoToGo.

Press Release [TiVo via ArsTech inca]

Motorola Wi-fi Mobile Phone CN620
officially announced

Motorola Wi-fi Mobile Phone CN620
officially announced 07/27/2004 11:11 AM
I4U Jul 27 2004 3:17PM GMT

New Hitchhiker's Guide Radio Series
Announced

New Hitchhiker's Guide Radio Series
Announced 11/06/2003 03:00 AM

The Florida Group has officially
announced the launch of its Siesta Key
Real Estate site launch

The Florida Group has officially
announced the launch of its Siesta Key
Real Estate site launch 08/18/2004 02:36 AM
The Florida Group has officially announced the launch of its Siesta Key Real Estate site launch, http://www.sarasotagroup.com. The launch comes at a convenient time for realtors in the Siesta Key area, with claims that real estate is “booming”. [PRWEB Aug 18, 2004]

Windows Media Player 9 Series and 10
Series Add-in for Microsoft FrontPage

Windows Media Player 9 Series and 10
Series Add-in for Microsoft FrontPage 09/03/2004 01:08 AM
This add-in enables new capabilities for FrontPage users including the ability to: Easily embed the Windows Media Player 9 Series or 10 Series control into FrontPage web pages and SharePoint sites; Control the look and feel of the media playback experience; Easily convert your media files for efficient network delivery. Publish to a Web or streaming server automatically. All this from within the add-in's wizard without having to write any script!

iRiver IFP-790

iRiver IFP-790 07/07/2004 11:06 AM
Sympatico Jul 7 2004 3:39PM GMT

iRiver T20

iRiver T20 06/24/2005 04:03 PM

I use my Shuffle regularly, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't cheat on it with other flash players. The iRiver T20 is kind of like that cool young thing at the office, all flash and excitement. You just want to pop out its sensuous USB port again and again while the poor, morose Shuffle sits around the house waiting to yell at you when you walk through the door. "I have a lanyard," it screams to you as you hit the fridge for a beer. "I have a lanyard!"

The T20 includes an LCD screen (!!!), line-in MP3 recording, and plays Ogg files. Priced at $99 for 512MB and $139 [UPDATE - It's Pounds, baby, Pounds, not Dollars. I don't know. Multiply by two, essentially, to get dollars.] for the 1GB model, I'm thinking that if you're considering a flash player, you may want to consider one of these instead of that plain-Jane Shuffle.

iRiver gives iPod shuffle a wake-up call [T3]

iRiver T20 and T30

iRiver T20 and T30 06/22/2005 01:58 AM

In addition to the attractive U10, iRiver has also announced the T20 and T30 [pictured left and right, respectively], both of which are not anything special in the 'function' department, but have fairly unique designs. The T30, especially, looks as if it could be holding the power core that drives a giant mecha, as long as that power core was a AAA battery. The T20 happens to be the first iRiver player with a sliding USB plug, a feature of which we are fans.

iRiver U10, T20, T30 introduced in iRiver 2005 Lanching Show [MisticRiver via I4U]

Rescheduled Free Webcast Kicks Off
Lyra’s New Hard Copy Observer Webcast
Series: Interactive Series Combines
Digital Imaging Breaking News with
Audience Q&A

Rescheduled Free Webcast Kicks Off
Lyra’s New Hard Copy Observer Webcast
Series: Interactive Series Combines
Digital Imaging Breaking News with
Audience Q&A 06/17/2005 04:23 PM
Lyra Research's next free Webcast has been rescheduled to Friday, June 17, at 2 p.m. EDT. The Webcast will include a discussion of the latest industry news and an audience question-and-answer session in an interactive Webcast format. Register at www.lyra.com. [PRWEB Jun 15, 2005]

More Hands-On With the iRiver PMC-100

More Hands-On With the iRiver PMC-100 09/02/2004 08:03 AM

SorobanGeeks got their hands on the iRiver PMC-100 series, the Microsoft Portable Media Center player that's expected any day now in stores. They also had a short sit down with the Vice President of iRiver's parent company, who seems to have a real hard on for Microsoft in the upcoming portable player wars, because the "PMC OS will work in total harmony with the future operating systems of Microsoft." I suppose that's true in a sense, but I still think that until someone can provide plug-and-play functionality, be it Big M or someone else, none of these players are going to be widely adopted. They're just too big of a pain to use.

You know who should make a portable media player? TiVo.

Read - iRIVER Press Conference... 1ères photos live de leur PMC !!! [Akiba.SorobanGeeks]

iRiver H10 Official

iRiver H10 Official 12/19/2004 03:01 PM

iRiver officially unveiled the H10 today in Korea, the 5GB hard disk-based player that looks a lot like a mini Creative Zen Touch (or Zen Micro, even). It's got pretty much the same specs as everything else in this segment, except notably the 1.5-inch screen. It'll be available on the 22nd in Korea for around $340. If they want to make it in the American market, let's hope they drop the price a little before it gets here.

iRiver H10 is out! [DAPreview]

iRiver N10 First Impressions

iRiver N10 First Impressions 08/06/2004 10:01 AM

SorobanGeeks passes on some first impressions straight from Korea of iRiver's new wearable flash memory MP3 player, the N10, as well as some pictures that are probably stock photography but that I hadn't seen; this picture showing how the headphones double as a necklace was especially interesting, I thought. You guys know how I feel about flash memory players -- I like them, smaller is better, but I just hate paying so much for so little storage -- but on up side the prices for the N10 are at least somewhat more reasonable than some players in the past -- a 1GB version should sell for around $440. If that's still too painful just wait. The hardware to decode MP3s is a fraction of the cost and the price of flash memory should continue to fall for a while.

And you know what's making me come around on these flash players? Cool designs like pendants. That's what they should have been doing in the first place. If I'm going to get reamed for a 1GB, it should at least look cooler/more interesting than an hard disk player.

Read - N-10 En Direct de Seoul ! [Akiba.Soroban]

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iRiver N10 OLED Flash Player [Gizmodo]

New iRiver PMC-100 Pictures

New iRiver PMC-100 Pictures 07/29/2004 01:10 PM

DAPreview found some new hi-resolution shots of the upcoming iRiver PMC-100, the Microsoft-based Portable Media Center that is the cousin to the non-Microsoft PMP-120/140. It looks considerably different than the original, more slab-like mockup we'd shown you, but it does look a lot more practical to use. It also looks like it is probably just a remolded bit of plastic that fits over the same hardware that powers the PMP-1xx series players.

I still like the old design better, but I also know which one I'd rather hold in my hands for two hours at a time.

Read - Fresh pics of the iRiver PMC-100 [DAPreview]

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More iRiver PMP and PMC Details [Gizmodo]

iRiver PMP-140 (P)Reviewed

iRiver PMP-140 (P)Reviewed 07/26/2004 10:55 AM

Soroban Geek's Portable Media World got their webbed hands on a pre-release version of the iRiver PMP-140, the upcoming personal media player that is the one that isn't the Windows-branded Portable Media Center (that's the PMC- models). Although the review is a little heavy on pictures and a little light on opinion, they seem fairly impressed with the device. It does look nice enough (from a feature perspective, at least; its case is ugly as sin), and I've got fairly high hopes for this one. DRM-free means, if nothing else, greater ease of use as a rule of thumb.

Read - Teasing Preview iRIVER PMP-140 (UK/US) [PMW.SorobanGeeks]

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Sony HMP-A1 VAIO Video Pocket Review [Gizmodo]
More iRiver PMP and PMC Details [Gizmodo]

iRiver IHP toolkit 0.3.0

iRiver IHP toolkit 0.3.0 04/20/2004 04:54 PM
A utility for the iRiver IHP series.

More iRiver PMP and PMC Details

More iRiver PMP and PMC Details 05/19/2004 10:42 AM
Ignoring the fact that the squared-off iRiver PMC-140 has a better looking case than the PMP-140, why would you ever want to purchase one? Here's the formats the PMP-140 plays: AVI, ASF, MP4, MPG / DivX 3.x, DivX 4.x, DivX 5.x, XviD, MPEG4 SP, Advanced SP, MPEG1. Here are the...

"2005 WEBBY AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
- You Vote for the Best Websites -
Winners announced in May 2005"

"2005 WEBBY AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
- You Vote for the Best Websites -
Winners announced in May 2005" 04/15/2005 11:41 PM

iRiver iFP180T @ XtremeNews

iRiver iFP180T @ XtremeNews 07/12/2004 04:05 PM

iRiver PMP-120 Shipping in July

iRiver PMP-120 Shipping in July 05/26/2004 12:20 PM
IGN has a write-up on the PMP-120, the portable video/media device from iRiver. Apparently, its sister product, the Windows Media Center PMC-120 won't be out until later this year, but the Linux-based PMP-120 is expected to be out fairly soon....

iRiver H320 Reviewed

iRiver H320 Reviewed 06/21/2004 09:06 AM

SorobanGeeks got their hands on one of the new iRiver H320s, the 20GB hard disk MP3 player with a color screen, USB Host capability, radio, and microphone. It looks excellent, and besides some complaints about the quality of plastic used for the casing, performs as advertised. The USB Host functionality means the H300 series devices can serve as portable hard drives for digital cameras, and I suspect that feature combined with the color screen will make these players a big hit for photographers. They do say the remote is sort of useless since it doesn't have an LCD, but I tend to disagree. Like the iPod's remote, I find that simple remotes are more than useful enough for their main purpose, which is to skip a track or two and to pause your music without pulling out the new device. On the upside, if you need an LCD remote, the units from the iHP120 (an older iRiver player) will work with the HP300 series just fine.
Read [Akiba.SorobanGeeks]

iRiver IFP-790T - 2 Thumbs down!

iRiver IFP-790T - 2 Thumbs down! 12/24/2004 12:46 PM

I am using the iRiver IFP-790T as a backup recording device when recording the Geek News Central Podcast. Of the 18 shows produced we lost 1 due to a PC crash and I vowed that would never happen again. So as I record the show on the PC the iRiver MP3 player which doubles as a voice recorder is my failsafe mechanism.

Today on the Daily Source Code with Adam Curry he mentioned he owns nearly the same device, and drew some of the same conclusions I did. The thing sucks. It's a great recorder but you have to use iRiver's proprietary interface that has DRM management to get files on and off it. Windows does not recognize it as a external drive and it records in some proprietary format.

I really wonder who these companies have on staff testing their products, don't they have a clue on how the real world works. I guess that is why the Apple iPod is as popular. Someone just needs to figure out how to record at a high bit rate on the iPod. [iRiver]< /p>

iRiver U10 Poses with CEO, Model

iRiver U10 Poses with CEO, Model 06/22/2005 01:57 AM

It's either feast or famine. New shots of the U10 prove that it is much cooler than originally thought. This little bugger plays video and is about as small as a package of playing cards. It is so cool, in fact, that it might just be my lust item for the next week or so until someone comes out with the combo Hello Kitty/beer maker/LCD video player/back massager. That would then become my favorite item in the world.

Images [Aving via i4u]

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iRiver U10 with D-Click System

iRiver U10 with D-Click System

iRiver U10 with D-Click System 06/22/2005 01:58 AM

iRiver is showing off new products, including this U10, with a very interesting "touchscreen" interface. I put the "touchscreen" in "quotes" because the D-Click system is not a traditional one like a PDA, but instead a screen over some buttons, which can be clicked by pressing down. So really, it's less advanced than an actual touchscreen, but I still like the idea, even with the inevitable finger grease.

I'm not looking forward to the capacity, though, as the U10 is listed to be available in sizes only up to 1GB. That's a shame mostly because the U10 will also support MPEG4 and Flate Lite, as well as audio files. It's pretty, though, but that might just be my love of test patterns shining through.

iRiver U10, T20, T30 introduced in iRiver 2005 Lanching Show [MisticRiver via I4U]

iRiver H10 Review Excerpts

iRiver H10 Review Excerpts 12/22/2004 01:36 AM

The first review I've seen of the iRiver H10 has popped up at Club iRiver, a site which, for all its positives, happens to be in Korean. For those of us that don't speak that tongue, Mistic River has excerpted a few of the highlights from the review, including word that the front area of the H10 is "nearly about the size of a business card." I can get with that, especially with a lovely color screen.

iRiver H10 - First Look [MisticRiver]

Free Webcast Kicks off Lyra’s New Hard
Copy Observer Webcast Series: New
Interactive Webcast Series Combines
Digital Imaging Breaking News with
Audience Q&A

Free Webcast Kicks off Lyra’s New Hard
Copy Observer Webcast Series: New
Interactive Webcast Series Combines
Digital Imaging Breaking News with
Audience Q&A 06/17/2005 04:24 PM
Rescheduled: Lyra Research’s next free Webcast on Friday, June 17, at 2 p.m. EDT will kick off the new Hard Copy Observer Webcast Series. The Webcast will include a discussion of the latest industry news and an audience question-and-answer session in an interactive Webcast format. In this series of 30-minute Webcasts, Observer editors will discuss key printer and copier product launches, industry trade shows, and corporate mergers and shake-ups. Discussions will be followed by valuable question-and-answer sessions with the audience. Register for the free Webcast at www.lyra.com. [PRWEB Jun 6, 2005]
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