{"id":547669,"date":"2006-01-09T08:47:36","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T08:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547669-asian-companies-challenge-ipod.html"},"modified":"2006-01-09T08:47:36","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T08:47:36","slug":"asian-companies-challenge-ipod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547669-asian-companies-challenge-ipod.html","title":{"rendered":"Asian companies challenge iPod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Asian gadget makers at an electronics show here are showcasing portable multimedia devices, providing fresh competition to Apple&#8217;s hot-selling iPod music and video player. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Japanese electronics giant Sony has highlighted at this week&#8217;s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) the portable version of its upcoming new Playstation game console. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The portable device can show videos, play MP3 music files and store pictures. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">South Korean company Samsung has showcased its YM-P1 player, which has 30 gigabytes of memory and can store up to 40 movies and 25,000 MP3 music files. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Samsung has also proposed making cellphones that can show videos. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Honhai, a Chinese company, launched in the first quarter a multimedia portable player that can stock pictures. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">US companies are also competing with Apple. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Handheld Entertainment presented a console with wireless capability that can download videos and music online with a WiFi connection. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Humax unveiled a multimedia portable player that features videos, music and pictures. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The 2006 International CES, which opened Thursday, boasts 2,500 exhibitors and hopes to attract 130,000 visitors before closing on Sunday. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><i>Inet-Bridge<\/i> ||\u00a0 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=35141\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian gadget makers at an electronics show are showcasing portable multimedia devices, providing competition to Apple&#8217;s iPod music and video player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}