MP3 is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format invented and standardized in 1991 by a team of engineers working in the framework of the ISO/IEC MPEG audio committee under the chairmanship of Professor Hans Musmann (University of Hannover - Germany). It was designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent audio, yet still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio to most listeners. In popular usage, MP3 also refers to files of sound or music recordings stored in the MP3 format on computers.
Gadget tracking on the road (CNN.com) - Today's traveling life is a high-tech traveling life. If the cell phone and laptop weren't enough, there's also the MP3 player, Blackberry, 3G modem and even GPS machine to get one's hands on.
Ten years old: the world's first MP3 player (The Register) - Who remembers the MPMan F10 now? Forgotten Tech The MP3 player is ten years old this month. The first commercially released personal music player capable of handling MP3 files was the MPMan F10, manufactured by Korea's Saehan Information Systems and launched in March 1998.…
Reported Teacher/Student Struggle Investigated (FOX 24 Macon) - A reported altercation between a Northeast High School teacher and a student is under investigation. According to a police report, a teacher approached a student and asked that he empty his book bag to see if the student had taken his mp3 player.
Resources
Winamp - Official site for Nullsoft Winamp, the Windows based media and MP3 player. Includes Winamp video, music, SHOUTcast radio and TV, skin downloads, and updates.
MP3 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a popular digital audio encoding and some of their own ideas and created MP3, which was designed to achieve the same
