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Get your ipod or media-player of choice, select your whole music collection, set the thing to shuffle (i.e., randomized playback), then post the first ten songs that come out.
Games 2009
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This latest version of the popular Linux media player sees a host of new feature additions including smart media-player syncing, folder watching* and easy cover-art editing.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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RealNetworks, which Mr. Glaser founded in 1994 and led for most of its existence, built its name with media-player software that helped deliver audio and video over the Internet.
RealNetworks Thinks It Found Real CEO Don Clark 2011
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That jurisprudence was extended in a landmark 2007 ruling involving Microsoft in which an EU court gave the regulator broad latitude to condemn the software giant for bundling its own media player inside Windows to the detriment of competing media-player makers.
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While Apple has been tinkering in less-than-useful ways with its media-player inventory, the rest of the market has been evolving.
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The Wall Street Journal (our sister publication, also published by News Corp.) reported last week that Verizon has been working with Microsoft for several months on a "Pink" project -- an initiative to launch a multimedia mobile handset combining touchscreen technology with Microsoft's Zune portable media-player technology.
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The browser investigation stems from a complaint filed in 2007 by Norwegian browser maker Opera Software ASA after Microsoft lost a decade-long battle with the EU over accusations that it had illegally bundled media-player software into its operating system.
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Bunnie came to fame for breaking the crypto on the Xbox, enabling the creation of Xbox Linux, and is now working with the startup he founded, Chumby, which makes an open media-player/device.
Boing Boing: November 19, 2006 - November 25, 2006 Archives 2006
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It also said the company abused its Windows monopoly by bundling media-player software with the operating system.
EU Regulators Begin 2008
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But the iPod's continued domination of the media-player market -- and the fact that Apple now has applied to register the iPhone's shape -- suggest the potential rewards of trademark management.
Shape of Things to Come David Orozco and James Conley 2008
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