Piper Jaffray reports a rather surprising fact: there’s zero interest among teens for portable media players other than the iPod. “Apple’s dominance in the PMP market remains largely unchecked, and it is clear to us that Apple has captured the ‘cool factor’ among high school students across America,” said Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster. Credit has […]

This is a video demo of the Mikiphone Pocket Phonograph, a sort of steampunk precursor to the Walkman and iPod from the 1920’s. Can you imagine trying to carry your media collection around like this? via bb

MechaWorks has announced MobileEdition – a new service that promises to put your WordPress-based blog into the iTunes App store, for free.

According to the company, “MobileEdition is designed to let you to offer an iPhone-formatted version of your blog, while keeping the full desktop experience available on Safari. You get presence on the App Store, your readers get a simple choice in how to read your blog on-the-go.”

Apple Insider reports that Stanford University will be publishing a video podcasts and slides from its “iPhone Application Programming” course via iTunes U beginning this week. Official, for-credit enrollment in the class is limited, but the public may “audit” the class via podcast for free. Required “school supplies” for the class include an Intel-powered Mac, […]

Applications developer Car29 has launched a new iPhone application, GPS StoryRecorder [iPhone App Store link], which allows users to record location-specific “geocasts” to share with others. GPS StoryRecorder works on both the iPhone and the iPod Touch (2nd generation) to record whatever the user says, and save it to the user’s exact geographic location. The […]

Skype is expected Tuesday to release a free iPhone version of its software that allows users to make telephone calls over the Internet.  [UPDATE: The application appears to be available Monday evening, but is crashing servers with high download demand.] In what is perhaps the greatest sentence in tech journalism so far in 2009, the […]

From the We Can Hardly Wait Department: Sling Media is announcing a mobile player for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. The mobile app would allow iPhone (or iPod Touch) users to watch television content on their mobile devices. The company says, “We’ve been working hard to bring the SlingPlayer Mobile experience to the iPhone […]

Rob Greenlee, Microsoft Zune podcast producer, has passed along information about the new Zune podcast directory: “Podcast feed URL’s can now be submitted to the Zune digital media entertainment platform through the new Zune.net web-based podcast directory. This new podcast directory has over 12,000 podcast feeds online now and also accepts podcast reviews to be […]

Technology and new media conference South By Southwest Interactive (SxSWi) is just wrapping up in Austin, Texas.  The five day event featured panel discussions, “celebrity geek” interviews, vendor exhibits — and lots and lots of parties. We have asked some of our friends and colleagues who attended this year’s SxSWi to share their highlights and […]

Information released this morning by digital measurement company ComScore says that people’s use of mobile devices for accessing news and information on the Internet “more than doubled” from January 2008 – January 2009. Over a third (35 percent, or 22.4 million) of the 63.2 million people who accessed news and information on their mobile devices […]