A decade of MP3
Two of the first MP3 players, the Eiger Labs MPMan F10 and the Rio PMP300, were released in 1998. We were still three years away from the iPod then, so chances are you were still listening to music by way of CD a decade ago. But since the advent of the MP3 and online music, you likely interact with your music collection and your friends' music in much different ways today. CNET's MP3 Insider, Donald Bell, looks back at how the MP3 has changed the way he experiences music.
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'GTA IV': The good, the bad, and the sometimes ugly
Posted by Dan Ackerman
If you're reading this, there's a good chance you're very interested in a video game being released April 29 called "Grand Theft Auto IV." We previously tried the game out a couple of times while it was still in development, and now that we've had a chance to give the final shipping version a serious run through over this past weekend, here are our initial thoughts on the final game's pluses and minuses. Read more 
WordPress founder talks traffic, new features to Web 2.0 crowd
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
You have to hand it to WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. At his talk at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, he managed to be the first conference speaker to put up a picture of a LOLcat while actually tying it into what his company is all about. Read more 
A top blogger sees end to blogging
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Sun Chief executive Jonathan Schwartz rightly gets credit for pioneering the corporate blog as a tool to reach customers, employees, and others. But pretty soon the novelty of his methods will wear off, he predicted. Read more 

Toshiba Satellite U405-S2830
Toshiba's thin-and-light Satellite U405 is a sleek alternative to the 13-inch MacBook, but it's weighed down by excessive out-of-the-box bloatware. Read more

HD camcorders under $800
"Budget" HD camcorders don't dip into the most popular price range for camcorders--at least on CNET, everyone's looking for a sub-$300 bargain--but you can now get a good model for less than $1,000 and a better-than-adequate one for around $800. Read more

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