While, as a digital media player, the Movit mini may not fare much better than other MP3 players Apple has stared down, it represents a new entry in a class of mobile computers free from carrier bonds that likely represent the future of the portable media player''s high end.

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The storage disk will also be used in future generations of digital audio devices for portable MP3 players.

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America says it has now tightened the rules on downloading material onto portable storage media, to make such a breach impossible in future.

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More broadly, Apple's move to put a shrunk-down version of its operating system, OS X, on the iPhone and the iPod Touch tells us that Apple sees portable, Web-friendly gizmos as a big part of its future.

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Well one of those poor souls must have grown up to become a product designer bent on saving future generations from such cruel torture, and the result is a portable "bonfire" that you can fold up and slip into a knapsack or strap onto your pack mule.

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Intel is due to unveil a variety of cellphone and other portable device storage and processing chips, some of which are bound to end up in future Apple products.

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