Cisco is about to open a can of wireless whoop ass on Sonos as it trots out its music streamer. The new kit can send sounds around the house just like Sonos, but also hooks up to other kit without cables.
Steve Jobs proudly showed off his new babies in the iPod family on Tuesday, and unlike with Brad and Angelina’s twins, the cooing and excitement was justified – the new nano and touch actually do stuff.
But what if the new iPods hadn’t been launched? What would you be left to upgrade to? And what would you do if iPods didn’t even exist at all? Not to worry: there’ still plenty of top-end songbox rivals out there, many of which even outperform Apple’s holy products, and we’ve rounded them up on the other side of the jump.
Sky’s on-demand service just changed its name to the not-entirely-unfamiliar-sounding Sky Player, as well as adding live TV from Sky News and Sky Sports.