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Many of them college students, these users swapped songs in MP3 format, television episodes, full-length movies and other forms of entertainment...
Scour.com was founded in 1997 by five students at the University of California at Los Angeles. Within a year, the company attempted to tap into the growing popularity of the MP3 music format by developing a multimedia search engine...
...example, while a song in MP3 format can be downloaded in less than a minute on Napster on a high-speed network, a full-length movie would take hours to download on Scour Exchange, even with an network as fast as Harvard's. For users with lower network bandwidth, the download times are slower...
That's the theory, anyway. In practice, it's not quite so easy. There are now three MP3 jukeboxes on the market. Each has a hefty price tag (between $400 and $600) and lousy battery life (about four hours), and each is a first-generation device--which means imperfections are rife. The 6-GB Nomad Jukebox from Creative Labs takes ages to boot up. The 6-GB Personal Jukebox 100 from Remote Solutions only takes CD rips (which means you can't transfer any Napster files you might have stored on your PC). And the 9-GB Neo 25 from...
Samsung put a new twist on the MP3 player with its innovative Photo YEPP ($399). In addition to playing digital music, which is pretty cool in itself, the Photo YEPP has a color screen for displaying text and pictures. It's so nifty, Bill Gates was spotted admiring it on the show floor. In the "old dog, new tricks" department, Sony unveiled the next generation of its Aibo robotic puppy ($1,500). The new pooch--full name ERS-210 (we've come a long way since Rover)--can learn 50 distinct words. Tell it to "take a picture...