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Blue Microphones Yeti Pro pictures and hands-on
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Pioneer N-50 and N-30 hit UK
DLNA 1.5 compliant too 3,550 reads
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Pure Music now live in the UK
Spotify rival streams in 3,050 reads
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Rhapsody European Napster buy-out
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Bayan Audio Bayan 7 review
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3 February 2012 16:53 GMT
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iPod speakers fall into two categories, they are either bog standard and fairly cheap, or they attempt to be iconic in their design. Sometimes this division is so great that they polarise potential customers into thinking it is either the best-looking...
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Blue Microphones Yeti Pro pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON And win one for yourself 27 January 2012 11:38 GMT TweetBack at the end of 2010, Pocket-lint got its hands on a Blue Microphones THX-certified Yeti USB mic and was extremely impressed. For its £129.99, it offered studio quality audio capture at a fraction of the price of a professional equivalent. It was...
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Pioneer N-50 and N-30 network audio players steam in the AirPlay fun
DLNA 1.5 compliant too 26 January 2012 15:16 GMT TweetAudio specialist Pioneer has announced that its latest network audio players; the Pioneer N-50 and the Pioneer N-30, have landed on UK soil.
Both of the players come rocking Apple's AirPlay wireless streaming magic right out of the box and...
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Rhapsody takes the fight to Spotify with European Napster buy-out
Possible Rhapsody UK launch on 26 January 2012 14:35 GMT TweetThe UK's streaming music arena could be set to welcome the arrival of a heavyweight contender by way of US giant Rhapsody.
Rhapsody has just announced its European expansion through the acquisition of Napster International, following its takeover...
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Pure Music now live in the UK
Spotify rival streams in 26 January 2012 10:00 GMT TweetPure Music, the Spotify-rival from the digital and internet radio specialist, is now live in the UK, with a free month trial available for a limited period.
Building on the success of its FlowSongs platform, Pure Music has again teamed up with...
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Sony Walkman alive and well in Japan
New PMPs and docks 24 January 2012 9:38 GMT TweetDespite reports suggesting that the Sony Walkman brand was a dead man walking, the brand continues to crop up - most recently in the electronics giant's homeland of Japan with the launch of the new E-Series PMPs and a couple of speaker docks to boot.
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Sony bass boosting Walkman B170 coming in February
Tiny not tinny 20 January 2012 12:03 GMT TweetSony has updated its dinky B160 Walkman with a new design and different colour options. Called, unsurprisingly, the Walkman B170, the new device also features the Bass Boost button and a belt clip for joggers, and the company's "three minute charge...
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CES 2012 record breakers
FEATURE The biggest, fastest, thinnest, first 19 January 2012 16:45 GMT TweetCES wouldn't be CES if there weren’t companies out there breaking records. If corporations weren't lauching the biggest, fastest, thinnest or simply the first, then they wouldn't be happy. As it goes, neither would we.
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GenevaSound Model XS Bluetooth speaker wants to travel in style
Funky portable sound 18 January 2012 11:40 GMT TweetGeneva Lab thinks it has a stylish enough Bluetooth speaker option to set it apart from the ubiquitous competition by way of the GenevaSound Model XS, which has just been announced by the Swiss company.
The suave-looking clamshell style travel...
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Philips Made for Android headphones coming for spring (pictures)
CES 2012: In-line and control for 'droid 18 January 2012 10:49 GMT TweetAlthough it's been beaten to the punch as the first manufacturer to release Android-specific headphones (by Klipsch), Philips is, to our knowledge, the first to offer an entire range of, what it calls, Made for Android headsets.
The range includes...
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Soul Party in Box pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON CES 2012: Ghetto blaster for the 21st century 17 January 2012 15:35 GMT TweetEverybody who's anybody in the hip hop scene these days has a company churning out headphones with their name on them. Actor/rapper Christopher Brian Bridges, aka Ludacris, (see what he did there?) is no exception and has been the man behind Soul Electronics...
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Sony Walkman Z pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON CES 2012: Prototype becomes reality 17 January 2012 10:15 GMT TweetWe caught it as a prototype at IFA 2011 in Berlin, but it wasn't until the Android-running Sony Walkman Z series hit CES that it became a reality and a chance for Pocket-lint to go hands on with this suped-up media player.
A match up of the...
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Altec Lansing Live 5000 wirelessly beams in
CES 2012: Wi-Fi loving speaker 16 January 2012 11:59 GMT TweetOver in Vegas at CES 2012, Altec Lansing unveiled the Live 5000, a wireless speaker that builds on the success of the inAir 5000 that was unleashed back in September at IFA.
Whereas the inAir used AirPlay to wirelessly play back your tunes,...
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Bang and Olufsen Beolit 12 pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON CES 2012: AirPlay in style 16 January 2012 11:08 GMT TweetIn a quiet, top floor room of a Las Vegas hotel sat the Bang & Olufsen Beolit 12 when Pocket-lint went to pay it a visit at CES 2012. At a section of the show with incredibly well sound-proofed walls and particularly comfortable furniture it stood...
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Hottest gadgets at CES 2012
FEATURE CES 2012: Pocket-lint's pick of the show 12 January 2012 19:35 GMT TweetThe very best gadgets of CES 2012 is what we bring you at Pocket-lint, but this page right here is even better. It's the best of the best, the best-est, the tip top, the A-No.1 As far as the hottest gadgets of world's largest consumer electronics trade...
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