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Briton Invented iPod, DRM and On-Line Music in 1979

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2008-09-09 07:33:06 by Charlie Sorrel in Gadget Lab
...IXI System had a display screen and buttons for four-way navigation. In a report presented to investors in 1979, the IXI was described as being the size of a cigarette packet. Is this sounding familiar yet Back in 1979, a memory chip would store a paltry three and a half minutes of music. Kramer fully expected this to improve, and...
 
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Apple Admits British Man Invented iPod in 1979, Uses Him to Win Patent Lawsuit [IPod]

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2008-09-07 16:30:00 by Jack Loftus in Gizmodo
...IXI. Capable of playing a mind-busting 3.5 minutes of music, the IXI prototype was Kramer's ticket out of obscurity. Sadly, when he couldn't raise enough venture funding to renew the IXI patent in 1988, the device became the Zune of its time, and was largely forgotten. Fast forward to the present, when Apple, fresh from making year-over-year...
 
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Peek, Email Checking at your Fingertips

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2008-09-04 03:36:03 by Zelinda in Portable Gadget
...IXI Mobile Inc., a company that previously tried to break into the mobile mainstream with Ogo, another email reader gizmo that also provided text and instant messaging capabilities via AT&T network in 2004. Ogos lack of success forced IXI Mobile to discontinuing the service one year later Nonetheless. Peek has an optimistic vision in the...
 
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Modu: the phone with many coats!

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2008-02-09 11:34:18 by Ben Robinson in IntoMobile
...IXI, who had a Bluetooth gateway - essentially a good idea where you put the subscriber SIM in the gateway, and then have cheaper, simpler devices that connect via BT to it, such as a phone, PDA, etc Why do I mention these, you ask? Because Modu strikes me as a mashup of them both - changeable faceplates, and changeable devices - powered by a...
 
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Apple says UK guy invented the iPod

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2008-09-08 00:51:38 by Conner Flynn in SlipperyBrick
...IXI, and stored only 3.5 minutes of audio and oddly enough it even looks just a bit like what eventually became the iPod. The inventor had to endure ten hours being questioned by Bursts legal team, who had claimed that the intellectual property of four patents they held was being used by Apple without payment or agreement. Obviously now that...
 
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Apple says UK guy invented the iPod

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2008-09-08 00:51:38 by Conner Flynn in SlipperyBrick
...IXI, and stored only 3.5 minutes of audio and oddly enough it even looks just a bit like what eventually became the iPod. The inventor had to endure ten hours being questioned by Bursts legal team, who had claimed that the intellectual property of four patents they held was being used by Apple without payment or agreement. Obviously now that...
 
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Apple credits Kane Kramer with invention of the digital audio player -- sort of

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2008-09-08 09:40:00 by Paul Miller in Engadget
...IXI went bankrupt in 1988, and hasn't made a dime off the idea since. While Apple was happy to use his expert witness to get out of a legal bind with Burst , and to pay a consultancy fee, there are no plans to give Kramer a slice of that iPod revenue pie. "To be honest, I was just so pleased that finally something that I had done which has...
 
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