AnythingButiPod has an interesting round up of the top 5 MP3 players of 2008.  The Top 5 MP3 Players Of 2008 SanDisk Sansa Clip Samsung P2 Microsoft Zune 120 Cowon iAudio D2 Sony Walkman A720/A820 Of the SanDisk Sansa Clip, they say: The Clip is one of the cheapest MP3 players on the market, in [...]

At the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung announced that it has developed a multi-level cell (MLC) flash-based 128 Gigabyte (GB) solid state drive (SSD) that it will produce this year in 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch versions for notebook and desktop PCs, as well as other mobile applications. The new drive offers a data writing speed of [...]

Samsung has introduced a new “jumbo shrimp” hard drive, the 120 GB 1.8-inch SpinPoint N2. The tiny drive¬†brings the first 120GB capacity to portable handheld devices, which could lead to the highest-capacity iPods ever. Specs: The N2 spins at 3,600rpm or 4,200rpm 15-ms average seek sub-1W power consumption Production of the 1.8-drive begins in July. [...]

VoiceIndigo has announced a worldwide partnership with Samsung to bring podcasting to Samsung mobile phones. Samsung Mobile Podcasts by VoiceIndigo will be pre-loaded on Samsung mobile phones. The first model with the service is now shipping, the Samsung UpStage. VoiceIndigo is a free service that lets users manage their podcasts via a simple web interface. [...]

A little-known Texas firm, Texas MP3 Technologies, is suing Apple, Samsung Electronics, and Sandisk for patent-infringement, based on their use of MP3 technology. Texas MP3 Technologies alleges infringement on U.S. patent 7,065,417, which was awarded in June 2006 to multimedia chip-maker SigmaTel and covers “an MPEG portable sound reproducing system and a method for reproducing [...]