{"id":548040,"date":"2006-02-20T11:16:53","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T11:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548040-amazon-com-mute-on-rumoured-ipod-challenge.html"},"modified":"2006-02-20T11:16:53","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T11:16:53","slug":"amazon-com-mute-on-rumoured-ipod-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548040-amazon-com-mute-on-rumoured-ipod-challenge.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon.com mute on rumoured iPod challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">A news report cited music industry executives as negotiating with Seattle-based Amazon on content, customised MP3 players, and an online music store to compete with Apple&#8217;s popular iPod and iTunes online store. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">An Amazon.com spokeswoman said the company would not comment on &quot;rumour and speculation&quot;. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Apple, based in Cupertino, California, has reportedly sold more than 42 million iPods, making it the most popular MP3 music player in the world. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In the final quarter of 2005, ending with the Christmas holiday, iPod sales were said to average about 100 per minute. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"2\">Inet-Bridge<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Internet retailer Amazon.com refused to comment on Friday on a media report that it is planning to launch an online digital music store and a portable music player to break Apple Computer&#8217;s lock on the market.<\/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-548040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548040"}],"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=548040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}