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Apple’s latest creation is the boom box for the new generation. Apple’s iPod Hi-FI is a state of the art mini speaker system that sells $349.00. It comes up with a dock on top that where a universal iPod can be placed powered by AC power and six D batteries that is sold separately. Cool controls with soft touch features are located on the front of the iPod dock, while located at the rear are audio input for both the S/PDIF and analog signals.

If Apple has iPods, Microsoft has Zune. Yes, Zune. To the uninitiated it sounds more like a computer game than a portable media player. But Zune is Microsoft’s offering to the world of mobile players. It has attached software and has existing online support where media files can be acquired and shared. The first device was released in November 2006 with a 30 GB capacity and at US$249.99 retail price.

iPod Shuffle is the world’s first and widely known miniature digital audio player to use a flash memory. When it was introduced on January 11, 2005, it made use of the tagline, “life is random”. The tagline is perfect for what the Shuffle is designed for — to load a selection of songs and be able to play them in random order using the “auto fill” technology.

The DHCP (for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) relay agent is a Bootstrap Protocol that relays DHCP messages between clients and servers for DHCP on different IP Networks. It can be a host or an IP router that “listens” to DHCP client messages being broadcast on the subnet and relays them to the configured DHCP server. The DHCP server would then send responses again using DHCP relay agent back to the DHCP client. The DHCP relay agent saves the administrator the agony of installing and running each DHCP server on each subnet.