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Macworld.com: Apple has sent select members of the media and others invitations to attend a special event scheduled for September 12, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco, Calif. (…) Apple does not discuss products prior to their actual announcement, but speculation has run high in recent days that Apple will soon introduce new iPods and iMac models, or will offer full-length movie downloads from the iTunes Music Store.

And since Steve Jobs probably won’t attend the Apple Expo at Paris (September 12-16), we at About-electronics, expect an important keynote. To be continued…

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Bloomberg: Toshiba Corp. shares rose after Microsoft  announced that the Japanese giant would be producing its Zune digital music player that will compete with Apple’s iPod.

Microsoft is working with Toshiba to get the device in stores for the Christmas selling season.

Apple has sold more than 58.9 million iPods since their introduction in October 2001, including 8.11 million units in the quarter ended July 1.

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ABC News announces that Dell will exit the MP3 player market. Almost at the same time Creative joined Apple and Sandisk introduced an 8GB Player, doubling the maximum capacity of the iPod Nano. Will the Sansa e280 music player be a real iPod rival or must we believe the 32GB ipod rumour?

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Suppose you don’t like iPod – for whatever reason. What are your options if you want a flash based cool looking mp3 player with 4GB, and it’s not called Nano?

Anything But iPod presents the Creative Zen Neeon 2:
“Creative has a page up for the forthcoming second release of the Neeon line of players. Unlike some iterations of the Neeon 2 is strictly flash based coming in 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB sizes. The player supports MP3, WMA, and WAV on the audio side and an AVI format that will need to be converted by supplied software. Finally, JPEG is supported on the photos side. The small 81 x 42 x 12.5 mm player manages to squeeze in a 1.5” color CSTN (basically less expensive to make LCD) screen with 128 x 128 pixels.

Other than the larger screen the Neeon 2 doesn’t offer too much more than the recently released Zen V and soon to be released Zen V Plus.”

Pricing in Europe hasn’t been communicated yet. US prices are 125$ (1GB), 170$ (2GB) and 190$ (4GB). For more info, please contact your local Creative distributor.

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Yes, they’re doing it: Microsoft is launching the ultimate iPod killer! And it has Wi-Fi too! Ooh… no… just wait a minute… they’re denying everything.

The gossip factory is doing overtime, these days. And just in case this rumour is drying up, we still have the Apple iPhone to chew on.

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