Apple today introduced the new iPod shuffle, now the world‚Äôs smallest digital music player with Apple‚Äôs shuffle feature. Nearly half the size of the original, the new iPod shuffle is just half a cubic inch in volume, weighs just half an ounce and features an aluminum design and a built-in clip which makes it the […]

Apple today introduced the new iPod nano. The updated nano features a new aluminum body, 24 hours of battery life and more than twice the music capacity for the same price as the previous generation. The new iPod nano features Apple‚Äôs Click Wheel and a smaller, thinner and lighter design available in silver, pink, green, […]

For millions, music downloads and other intangible digital content are replacing CDs and other media. What happens if your iPod gets ripped off, though? Most insurance companies will take claims on records or CDs, but, until recently, claims for lost music downloads, games, video downloads and ringtones fell on deaf ears. Insurers are beginning to […]

Dr. William Pence, Chief Technology Officer at Napster, is unfazed by rumors that Microsoft may orphan its digital rights management technology when it releases the Zune media player and web services. According to Pence, market pressures will eventually lead to open, interoperable media formats.”Pundits have concluded that Microsoft will abandon PlaysforSure, leaving online music services […]

Microsoft is moving quickly to respond to FairUse4WM, a free program which threatens to undermine Microsoft-based online music service offerings. FairUse4WM, a so-called DRM-stripper, lets users remove the rights management software from music downloads in Microsoft‚Äôs Windows Media DRM (digital rights management) 10 and 11. The formats are used by many online music services to […]

Universal Music Group (UMG) has announced an agreement with SpiralFrog to make UMG‚Äôs catalog available for legal downloading in the US and Canada via SpiralFrog‚Äôs advertising-supported service.SpiralFrog will offer users of its no-cost web-based service the ability to legally download music by many of the world‚Äôs most popular and award-winning artists. No mention has been […]

Canadian indie band Uncle Seth will be playing at the first PodCamp, being held in Boston September 9-10. Uncle Seth’s reputation in the Canadian podcasting community recently earned them the chance to play at the inaugural Podcasters Across Borders conference, which took in Kingston, Ontario this past June. Podcasters from across Canada and the U.S. […]

Facebook, a social directory that allows people to share information, announced today a back-to-school promotion to give away 10 million music samplers to Mac and PC users from the iTunes Music Store. Starting today, Facebook will give away one million, 25-song music samplers from iTunes each week for the next 10 weeks. Each iTunes music […]

At the 2006 NAMM Summer Session, a meeting of musical gear manufacturers and retailers being held in Austin, Texas July 14-16, CAVS introduced a unique iPod dock/karaoke station. The CAVS IPS-11G Karaoke Station, is a turbo-charged iPod dock that does all the usual docking chores…..plus karaoke.

Gnomedex 2006 Update: Future presidential candidate & podcaster John Edwards is scheduled to lead a discussion later, but Dave Dederer, best known as the guitarist and singer of The Presidents of the United States of America has the stage now. He kicked things off by covering a couple of Velvet Underground tunes, and then discussed […]