Fring (App Store link) is a new app for the iPhone and iPod touch that supports free voice over IP (VoIP) telephony.  Fring lets you use voice and text communications with a variety of services, including fring, Skype, MSN, Twitter, Google Talk and AIM. On the iPhone and touch, service is available using your WiFi […]

Last year, we called the Kindle “this year’s Zunetanic, an over-hyped iPod-wannabee.” A little harsh, maybe, but the prediction is panning out to be true.  Since then, Amazon has dropped the price for the Kindle, announced a lot more books for the device and sold in modest numbers, leading Amazon to admit that the device was […]

Barack Obama has introduced a new tool for catering to his wired backers – the Obama ’08 iPhone app (app store link). Features: Call Friends: A great volunteering tool that lets you make a difference any time you want by talking to people you already know. Your contacts are prioritized by key battleground states, and you […]

Fortune reports that Apple is threatening to kill the iTunes Store over music royalties.  The Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, D.C. is expected to rule Thursday on a request by the National Music Publishers’ Association to raise royalty rates on songs purchased from online music stores, like iTunes, from 9 cents to 15 cents per […]

A tale of love, expressed in iPod words. Produced and directed by Paolo Tosolini and Silvia Tosolini, Creative Commons license.

Apple has announced iPhone Developer University – a new program designed to help educational institutions create curriculum for developing iPhone applications.  The iPhone Developer University Program is a free program designed for higher education institutions looking to introduce curriculum for developing iPhone or iPod touch applications. The University Program provides development resources, tools for testing […]

 Alex Sokirynsky, developer of Podcaster, a podcast client for the iPhone, is making the switch to Google’s Android smartphone platform.  Apple banned Podcaster from being sold in the App Store because “it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes.” “It seems that Apple has shut me down,” says Sokirynsky. “All I wanted was for someone […]

At GigaOm, John Sangiovanni offers his take on the emergence of a new category of phone, the superphone: The product that created and continues to define the superphone category is the iPhone. The iPhone offers an elegant user interface powered by an impressive array of integrated hardware, all wrapped up in a masterwork of industrial […]

CBS has launched EyeMobile (iTunes link) – a free citizen media iPhone application. The application lets you browse the latest CBS new reports, but also lets you contribute to news coverage by submitting images.  EyeMobile is part of CBSEyeMobile.com‘s take on social media news.  The iPhone/Web site combination lets you: submit images as you capture news; […]

The New York Times has a great look at the state of the Zune today, that suggests that the Microsoft’s portable media player has found a niche: Microsoft hasn’t made much effort to match the iPod’s universe of functions. The Zune store still lacks movies, downloadable programs, gift certificates, monthly allowances or any way to rate […]