http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/31/sandisk.sansa.clip.plus/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0908/sandisksansaclipplus.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />SanDisk launched its first new media player in over a year today with the Sansa Clip+. The major revision to its iPod shuffle competitor fits a microSDHC card slot and can use this either to expand the built-in storage or to play the company's preloaded slotMusic or slotRadio cards. It's also finally Mac-compatible and lets those users drag-and-drop music from Mac OS X Panther or later.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/31/sandisk.sansa.clip.plus/ Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/02/27/amazon.kindle.tts.change/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0902/amazonkindle2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Amazon this evening said in a statement that the Kindle 2's text-to-speech feature for reading audiobooks will be strictly voluntary. The move will let individual book publishers decide whether or not individual titles can be read aloud by the e-book device and will change the book formatting to selectively disable the feature for those that object to it. The change follows objections from the A... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/02/27/amazon.kindle.tts.change/ Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/11/sandisk.sansa.clip.8gb/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0811/sandisksansaclip.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />SanDisk raised the stakes in its competition against the iPod shuffle and Creative ZEN Stone with a new, 8GB version of the Sansa Clip. The capacity gives it storage for up to 2,000 songs and doubles the capacity of Creative's best ultra-small models and quadruple that of Apple's. It continues to hold the same four-line OLED display that lets it have full control over music while still rendering... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/11/sandisk.sansa.clip.8gb/ Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/21/dell.xp.until.2012/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0804/delllatituded420.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Dell will keep using Windows XP until as late as 2012, a company representative has reportedly told users. Although Microsoft has said it would discontinue the option for XP this year in all but very low-cost notebooks, the claimed Dell message says the PC creator will continue offering XP Professional until 2012 on all its higher-end business offerings, including the Latitude, Optiplex, and Prec... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/21/dell.xp.until.2012/ Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/31/amazon.acquires.audible/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0801/audible.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Amazon today said it would acquire Audible in a share buyout deal worth roughly $300 million. The agreement effectively gives Amazon control of Audible's audiobook collection and is described as an effort to develop and expand the audiobook forrmat, which is largely dominated by the now-acquired company. The finished deal is expected to be approved sometime during the spring of this year.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/31/amazon.acquires.audible/ Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:20:00 GMT