03.12.08 - 12:22pm
Lithium-ion batteries have been recalled in the past, when they were found to be the cause of laptop computers as well as cell phones overheating and catching fire. Now, the batteries are under fire again, this time as a possible cause of an iPod nano overheating and emitting sparks as it was being recharged by a Tokyo owner.
Japan has announced an immediate investigation into the iPod nano’s batteries to be done by Japanese officials.
The iPod nano has been blamed previously for emitting sparks particularly when it caught fire to a man’s pants while in his pocket last year. Owner Danny Williams of Atlanta was not seriously hurt and the iPod nano was sent back to Apple so they could examine it.
Apple MacBook users have complained in several online forums of seeing sparks coming from their laptops. Apple has knowledge of these instances but has refrained from making comments on the nano or the laptops at the moment.
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12.19.07 - 12:24pm
Apple is looking to cross the continents and traverse into Asian waters seeking deals in China, South Korea and now in Japan.
Japans market, like China’s and South Korea’s is proving to be a hard one for Apple to cinch a deal with the incredible revenue sharing of iPhone subscriptions that Apple wants. The fact that South Korean talks have been ongoing since August and no deal has been made yet in China, where Apple has been under negotiations since November, can’t help matters. In Japan, however Apple is using free commerce to its advantage and pitting two rival Japanese companies against each other in an effort to get the deal Apple wants.
NTT DoCoMo would be the obvious choice for Apple as they control the market with half the overall share. They are known for being the first to market the hottest high end phones. Softband is the other mobile network Apple is in talks with. Softband is known for being behind on their phones and technology. Getting the iPhone would be a huge push for them. Most likely though, Apple is just trying to use them to force NTT DoCoMO into a deal.
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09.27.07 - 04:22pm
Who would think of it - an MP3 player to fight pimples, it sounds rather amusing, like they are using the vibrations of the music to cure the acne?
However, after a little research on the use of negative ions to cure pimples…
In the 1950’s scientists began to discover how important ions were in body functions. Here in America the general public knows little about ions but in Europe they take it very seriously, so much so that ion generators are installed in many businesses, banks, hospitals, passenger cars and even in airliner cockpits. Ions are used to in treatments to help burn victims heal faster, cure repiratory diseases, rid the body of general infections - including pimples - and even to check the spread of cancers.
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06.06.07 - 11:43am
I keep expecting it to get up and start awkwardly walking around while it flips through the music and for $820 you would think it would!
Alas that is not the case, but you do have an iPod case made out of nothing other than titanium, which has the highest strength-to-weight ratio of any metal, with a 3000 degree Fahrenheit melting point. Nothing’s getting through this baby!
It is also corrosion resistant. So even if your James Bond and get acid streamed at you, you could protect yourself by blocking it with your titanium iPod case!
Made at the Kiwami Studio in Japan, the case has access ports for normal operation of your iPod. It is compatible with the Nano.
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12.04.06 - 12:32pm
Back in February word was out on iPod mania in Japan with it taking 51.3% of the digital music player market as of the end of 2005. Word then was would it last?, with a bigger threat coming from the growing sophistication of mobile-phone based music in Japan. Cell phones are frequently discussed as potential iPod killers, and Japan’s carriers have been pushing the hardest to make that a reality.”
Even though the Apple iPhone has yet to hit the market, Japanese cell phone carriers still have not overcome the iPod in the digital music market. Steven Towns submits: The Apple (AAPL) iPod is extending its dominance of Amazon.com’s (Japan) top-seller ranking. Apple’s iPods are currently the hottest selling digital music player in Japan, controlling seven of the top ten spots. The shuffle is number one, the 2GB iPod Nano at number 2, the 3GB Nano at number 3, the 30 GB at number 5, the 8GB Nano at number six, the 4GB Nano at number 9 and the liscened 30GB at number 10.
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