Say hello to the TRANSGEAR HMP-100, a portable audio player from a Japanese company called Nagase Industrial Corporation.

ENGADGET: Nagase TRANSGEAR HMP-100 features local Gracenote DB

Finally, another entrant in the WiFi portable audio player space!

ENGADGET: SanDisk Sansa Connect WiFi portable audio player

Last week's column examined some of the new capabilities of the Sansa Connect, a portable digital audio player designed for an always-connected world.

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The IceTouch (YP-H1), featuring the world's first 2-inch, full color, transparent Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) touch-screen display, functions as a DVD-quality video player, studio quality audio player, an ultra-portable photo album, an FM radio and even a portable storage device.

ENGADGET: Samsung announces two PMPs, one for fitness gurus, one made of glass

The 90-store chain plans to open a new online service this summer that lets consumers create their own podcasts--audio and video shows designed to be downloaded onto a computer or portable media player--using a catalog of some 6, 000 songs, which Tower will provide free of charge.

FORBES: Take My Music, Please

Sony invented the Walkman and the portable CD player, but was never more than a third-fiddle player in the digital audio world.

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