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Christmas gift guide: the best tech gadgets and more for family and friends

It's that time of year again when most of us fret over what to buy for our loved ones. Fear not, though, for our Christmas Gift Guide can set you in the right direction, no matter what your budget.

CES Concept Tech: 16 Gizmos Worth Waiting For

One of the funnest parts of the Consumer Electronics Show are the cool, the crazy, and just-around-the-corner products.

In Pictures: Biggest Fails of CES 2011

We got sick of seeing me-too tablets and hearing overblown claims about 4G networks. And the T-Pain microphone? Just painful.

Sony's 10 greatest tech flops

Since its founding in 1946, Sony has produced some of the biggest hits in consumer electronics. Brand names like Walkman, Handycam and Trinitron helped define the company as a giant in the industry and more recent hits like Cybershot, Vaio, Bravia an...

LimeWire's demise: We revisit six peer-to-peer file sharing services

The demise of the Gnutella client, LimeWire (a study in 2008 showed it was still the number one peer-to-peer client eight years after was first released!), has us reminiscing about some of the popular file sharing applications of the past, which open...

Five reasons I won't be using Ping

Despite all the hardware Apple introduced at its press event Wednesday, the most radical news was Ping, a social network for music that's launching as a feature of iTunes 10. I've taken a brief test drive of Ping to see what it's about, but even befo...

Next iPod Touch: 7 must-haves

If the latest Apple rumor is true, a new iPod Touch should arrive in September.

iTunes streams from the clouds: 8 questions

Apple is getting close to launching a cloud-based version of iTunes that supports wireless streaming music and movies and wireless syncing, according to new reports on the effort first reported earlier this year.

Audio compression may not be so bad

We all listen to compressed music on our computers and portable players and we all know that compression is supposed to hurt sound quality. But does it hurt it enough to affect our listening pleasure?

20 free ways to manage video, music, and photos

No-cost utilities and services can help you find, organize, and wrangle your media files--or enjoy some great video online.

After 10 billion songs, what's iTunes' encore?

Apple's iTunes Store reached a major milestone this week when it delivered its 10 billionth song, an event that highlights the great success of Cupertino's digital-download service.

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Timeline: iTunes Store at 10 billion

On Wednesday Apple's iTunes Store served its 10 billionth music download, according to the company. Here's a look at notable moments in its history:

Back-to-school guide: MP3 players

There are hundreds of MP3 and portable media players to choose from on the market. Here are five of our favourites!

Back to school - MP3 player buying guide

There are a huge range of portable media players on the market. We've rounded up a list of the key features of PMPs and MP3 players in order to help you pick up the model that's right for you or your child.