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Just looking at Apple’s recent online music profits must have sparked some Gordon Gekko’s at Samsung into action because the company has decided to launch its own music download service.

Imaginatively named Samsung Music Store, it’s set to open for business next month with 2.6 million songs on offer. Here’s the rub though, it’s only for owners of Samsung MP3 players. Do Samsung users suffer from that trendy, Apple ‘need-to-belong’ urge?

All new players will come with a week’s subscription to the fee-based system which will cost £14.99 a month for as many downloads as you like. Single tracks will cost 79p.-Martin Lynch

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Sandisk makes some nice MP3 players but has decided, somewhat late in the game, that there’s money to be made in the growing portable video market as well. The result is its “first pocketable video player”, Sansa View. This Flash-based player comes with a 4in widescreen display, 8GB of internal storage and a Flash memory extension slot than can handle SD or SDHC cards. That means it can store up to 33 hours of video or 2,000 songs, as well as thousands of photographs.

The company is touting it as one of the thinnest out there, measuring 78.5mm x 123mm x 16.9mm, and it also comes - unusually - with an integrated speaker so that you don’t have to keep swapping earphones with friends when you want to show them a clip. The lithium-ion battery is good for four hours of video and 10 hours of music [could be a lot better] and the unit is compatible with Windows Vista.

Sansa View will ship in Europe in Q2 with a price tag ranging from £180-200. For detailed specs jump now.-Martin Lynch

Detailed features of the Sansa View:

Sleek, thin “pocketable” design– at 78.5mm x 123mm x 16.9mm (0.66” thick)
Support for a wide array of video, music and photo formats
Large 4” widescreen color display
SDâ„¢ expansion slot for additional memory capacity. Supports SanDisk TrustedFlash cards and the new SD High Capacity cards (SDHCâ„¢)
Slideshow capability for photos with the ability to add background music
AV-output of audio and video content to a TV screen through a 30-pin connector (up to 1080i with docking station) or 3.5mm headphone jack
Integrated speaker
Simple interface with backlit controls for easy navigation
Rechargeable, removable Li-Polymer battery[3]
Preloaded content, including full-length movies, short films, video clips, music and photos
Works with most download and music subscription services, including Rhapsody, MTV Urgeâ„¢ and Yahoo! Musicâ„¢

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Can’t get rid of the voices inside of your head? Well, why not make them louder (and look like a mental patient in the process). Created by Kate Hartman, the Muttering Hat is a goofy-looking hat made up of hacked MP3 players, headphones, and microphones. One form of the hat lets you listen to pre-recorded mumblings as you go about your day-to-day tasks. (Cause you know, listening to music is so boring). The other version, puts your inner thoughts on speakerphone, so as you mumble to yourself, anyone near you can strap off one of the hat’s giant ear balls and listen in on what you’re saying. In other words, you’ll never be able to silently judge someone again. And that in itself is reason enough to pass on this hat. – Louis Ramirez

Muttering Hats [via We Make Money Not Art]

LONDON (Reuters) - Telecoms regulator Ofcom said on
Thursday it would legalise the use of low-power FM transmitters
such as the “iTrip” to be used to connect MP3 players to radios
or in-car entertainment systems.

LONDON (Reuters) - Telecoms regulator Ofcom said on
Thursday it would legalise the use of low-power FM transmitters
such as the “iTrip” to be used to connect MP3 players to radios
or in-car entertainment systems.

LONDON (Reuters) - Telecoms regulator Ofcom said on
Thursday it would legalise the use of low-power FM transmitters
such as the “iTrip” to be used to connect MP3 players to radios
or in-car entertainment systems.

LONDON (Reuters) - Telecoms regulator Ofcom said on
Thursday it would legalise the use of low-power FM transmitters
such as the “iTrip” to be used to connect MP3 players to radios
or in-car entertainment systems.

LONDON (Reuters) - Telecoms regulator Ofcom said on
Thursday it would legalise the use of low-power FM transmitters
such as the “iTrip” to be used to connect MP3 players to radios
or in-car entertainment systems.

LONDON (Reuters) - Telecoms regulator Ofcom said on
Thursday it would legalise the use of low-power FM transmitters
such as the “iTrip” to be used to connect MP3 players to radios
or in-car entertainment systems.

LONDON (Reuters) - Telecoms regulator Ofcom said on
Thursday it would legalise the use of low-power FM transmitters
such as the “iTrip” to be used to connect MP3 players to radios
or in-car entertainment systems.