The third-generation iPod shuffle is here, and not a soul saw it coming. (These days, that’s a rarity.) Apple’s new buttonless wonder has been making waves and ruffling feathers in the days since its ...

Zero buttons. That’s as minimalist as it gets. Removing all buttons—or to clarify, moving them to the headset—shrinks down the size of the new iPod Shuffle dramatically, but it also creates control ...

The age of carrying a music-only device is over, but not forgotten. The digital music player will be laid to rest once the iPod Touch sells out. The iPod shuffle was one of Apple's simplest devices.

Apple yesterday introduced iPod shuffle, a breakthrough digital music player. Smaller and lighter than a pack of gum, iPod shuffle works seamlessly with iTunes' innovative AutoFill feature, which ...

As expected, Apple have unveiled a new iPod Shuffle 4GB, throwing out the control wheel in the process and introducing VoiceOver, a new feature which reads out tracklistings at a touch of the in-line ...

Over the weekend, some bloggers who discovered a chip inside the iPod Shuffle's earbuds speculated that Apple was crippling its latest media player to work only with certain headphones. While to an ...

Technological advances have taken business presentations out of the conference room and onto the Internet, where the presenter can reach a broader audience with audio recordings distributed digitally.

If it walks like an iPod Shuffle and quacks like an iPod Shuffle, then it's an...iPod Shuffle crossed with a duck? No, just a nearly identical clone. If Apple’s own product photos are any indication, ...

Upside: Zero LCD, USB 2.0 built right in, and wearable–the concepts aren’t new. But the iPod Shuffle raises the ultracompact MP3 player to an art form. It is only 0.3 inch thick and less than an inch ...

Apple announced the second incarnation of its budget iPod, the iPod shuffle, at its widely-anticipated "It’s Showtime" event in September. The new shuffle is notably smaller, thinner, and lighter than ...

I don’t know if I’ve ever received so many e-mails and phone calls as I did on the morning Apple released the third-generation iPod shuffle. Friends and readers were all wondering what Apple was ...

We call in Weekend Edition's Math Guy, Keith Devlin, to help NPR's Susan Stamberg answer a listener's question about how the shuffle feature works — or doesn't — in iPods. Lisa Forrest(ph), a listener ...