Portable Audio Players
GRANDVIEW HEIGHTS, Ohio - Libraries are tweeting, texting and launching smart-phone apps as they try to keep up with the biblio-techs - a computer-savvy class of people who consider card catalogs as vintage as typewriters.
THE GADGETS: Apple Inc. released a new slate of iPods this month - its latest version of the iPod Nano, Touch and Shuffle.

TOKYO - Sony is zeroing in on sound quality and karaoke-like lyric displays to woo Japan, its stronghold in digital music players, amid a battering elsewhere from U.S.

TV TRY: Apple Inc. has unveiled a smaller, cheaper Apple TV set-top box that can show rented movies and TV shows and stream content from Netflix and other online services.

Apple Inc. refreshed its iPod media player lineup and unveiled software updates Wednesday:
- Apple TV.
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