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November is going to be a great month for new tech toys, here at Wise Buddha Towers we are busy writing our Christmas lists.
Top of our request to Santa is the new iPod Shuffle which is all the incentive we need to hit the gym erm sometime in the New Year, this thing is really […]

As mentioned back in February Songbird is an interesting music player from the Firefox guys. So interesting in fact that they have just secured additional funding from a couple of seasoned VC’s who obviously see the potential.
In other music related news we mentioned a couple of months ago really innovative DRM free music site called […]

Like us you’ve probably got thousands of music files in various file formats spread across several machines. Here at Wise Buddha, as the name implies, we exist in a state of permanent inner peace derived largely from backing up all our music in one place (a 160 GB external Maxtor hard drive is our weapon […]

Some pics from the US of the new Zune player, not sure that Apple has too much to worry about in the looks department but the specs look interesting. More here.

Interesting announcement from EMI that the new Microsoft Zune player will come preloaded with music video content. The reason it’s interesting is that it seems to confirm that the new player will play music and video. Read about it here.

As previoulsy posted it seems the music downloading space has undergone a mini seizmic change in the last few days which suggests a move toward the sale of DRM-free music by the big labels. About frickin’ time!
In our opinion as stated numerous times before this progression is ineveitable and I think we have seen potentially […]

Microsoft have confirmed they are launching a music player to take on Apple’s dominant iPod - called the ZUNE - more info from the BBC here.
Microsoft employees have started blogging about the new project, Cesar Menendez has started Zune Insider.com and Richard Winn is writing a blog called Madison and Pine. The company has […]

Blimey about time…here at Wise Buddha towers we hate music with DRM built in, having paid your hard earned cash why should you have any restrictions about how many times you can burn your music etc.
That’s why we don’t bother buying music from Apple iTunes store and nor should you.
In a very interesting move Yahoo […]

Lots of chatter about mighty Microsoft taking on Apple with an ‘iPod’ killer, looks like the rumours might be true for a Christmas launch. Read more here.