iPods & Portable Media Players

Sirius iPhone App: Too Little, Too Late?

Mar 12th, 2009 | By | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players, Podcasting

Sirius announced plans today for an application to stream its satellite radio service to the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. Sirius XM CFO David Frear made the comments on its earnings conference call, which covered Sirius’ fourth quarter results. The company reported a fourth quarter net loss of $245.8 million on revenue of $644 million. […]



Apple Intros Update iPod shuffle

Mar 11th, 2009 | By | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players

Apple today introduced an updated iPod shuffle, the world’s smallest music player at nearly half of the size of the previous model, and the first music player that talks to you. The new VoiceOver feature lets the iPod shuffle speak your song titles, artists and playlist names. iPod shuffle can even tell you status information, […]



Eye-Fi Memory Cards Automatically Upload Videos to YouTube and Flickr

Mar 5th, 2009 | By | Category: Computer Hardware, iPhone

Updating a story we first told you about in January, wireless memory card maker Eye-Fi today announced the release of two new wireless SD memory cards that will upload videos directly from a digital camera to a computer and the Web. In addition to automatic photo uploads, the next generation Eye-Fi cards can deliver users’ […]



Podcasting Goes Mainstream

Mar 4th, 2009 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Corporate Podcasts, iPods & Portable Media Players, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcasting, Podcasting Research, Podcasting Statistics

Podcasting is going mainstream, at least according to eMarketer: Podcasting has evolved from an odd, funky blogging experiment into a broad medium with mainstream trappings. Today, the vast majority of the top-rated podcasts come from recognizable media entities that are using podcasts to expand their existing radio, TV, cable or satellite audiences. They peg the […]



Can The iPhone Save The Kindle?

Mar 4th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured Story, iPods & Portable Media Players

Amazon has released a new Kindle iPhone App that expands the reach of the Kindle platform to Apple’s popular iPhone and iPod touch.

Will the Kindle iPhone application help make Amazon’s ebook platform relevant, or is it just another speedbump on the road to a more open ereading future?



Blackberry Gets Podcatcher

Feb 27th, 2009 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, iPods & Portable Media Players

VersatileMonkey.com has released PodTrapper for the popular Blackberry phone/portable media device. The PodTrapper is a podcatcher, or download manager and player of podcasts. The $9.99 application allows users to consolidate podcasts a single device, rather than schlepping a Blackberry for phone and texting, and a separate portable media player for podcasts. Simon Sage of IntoMobile […]



iPhone-Compatible Gloves For Chilly Hands

Feb 16th, 2009 | By | Category: iPod Accessories, iPods & Portable Media Players

One of the (few) things I dislike about my wonderful iPhone is trying to use it in Iowa in the wintertime. The cold temperatures here necessitate the wearing of gloves, but operating the phone’s handy touch screen is impossible without bare hands. And often, by the time I’ve peeled off my mittens and exposed my […]



Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking is Illegal

Feb 13th, 2009 | By | Category: Citizen Media, iPhone, Podcasting Law

Digital civil liberties organization the Electronic Frontier Foundation is reporting that Apple is arguing that “jailbreaking an iPhone constitutes copyright infringement and a DMCA [digital millenium copyright act] violation.” These comments from Apple were filed with the U.S. Copyright Office in conjunction with the 2009 DMCA review, which happens every three years. EFF says that […]



Microsoft’s Zune Team Reorganizes, Retrenches

Feb 13th, 2009 | By | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players

CNet’s Ina Fried reports on Microsoft‘s quiet reorganization of their Zune team: The software and services portion of the Zune team–the bulk of its staff–will be added to the portfolio of Enrique Rodriguez, the vice president who currently runs Microsoft’s Mediaroom and Media Center TV businesses. The hardware team, meanwhile, will now report to Tom […]



Awesome Robot Features An iPod Dock And Is Skype-Compatible !

Jan 29th, 2009 | By | Category: iPod Accessories

Veronica Belmont takes a look at the awesome Spykee robot – a mobile, self-recharging, Skype compatible robot that allows you to spy on your home from anywhere in the world using the Internet and Skype’s free video service. Manufactured by Meccano and sold under the Erector brand, the robot is combination remote spy, home security […]