The DirectVoxx Muso is add-on for the iPod and iPhone that is designed to let you access your music with voice commands. The Muso synchronizes with your iTunes library and can respond to commands like “Play me some Led Zeppelin”, “How about some Rolling Stones”, “Gimme jazz” or “Go to My Broadway Tunes playlist”. The […]

In this video, Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose of Diggnation do a demo for Microsoft’s Zune digital media player. Yeah – it’s an informercial. What makes it interesting, though, is that Microsoft is turning to video podcasters to help get the Zune some geek cred. This wouldn’t work with all products, and this sort of […]

Ever since Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone 3G, we’ve been waiting for this moment – the time when Tom Dickson from Will It Blend? destroys the over-hyped, twice-as-expensive, underpowered device in one of those monster Blendtec blenders. Fortunately, it didn’t take long: OK. Maybe we’re just a little bitter that 3G coverage is non-existent in […]

Earlier in the year, we had a preview of Belkin’s GoStudio iPod Recorder. Belkin has now released full information on the GoStudio, and it looks like it will be a hot, reasonably priced device for recording directly to your iPod. Here are the details: Record directly to your iPod in 16-bit, 44kHz digital audio quality […]

Apple today put the iPhone 3G on sale and officially launched the App Store with more than 500 downloadable applications. While the iPhone 3G is an important release, the App Store transforms the device from being a cell phone to being a platform. For people interested in new media, today marks the day that the […]

https://videopress.com/v/bMa9CH71/fmt_dvd Raanan Bar-Cohen has announced the imminent release of WordPress For iPhone: The WordPress for iPhone App is nearly ready to go. It supports WordPress.com blogs as well as self-hosted WordPress.org blogs running version 2.5.1 or newer. Timing wise, with the launch of Apple’s iTunes App store this morning, we expect to see this showing […]

Apple has updated the software for Apple TV, without fanfare, to version 2.1. The updates include security improvements, support for using the iPhone or iPod touch as a remote, and support for Mobile Me content. What would really excite us would be if Apple opened up Apple TV to developers, like it has with the […]

First reviews of Apple’s iPhone 3G are getting published by Apple’s traditional press partners, and they are, to no surprise, generally favorable: Walt Mossberg: “I’ve been testing the iPhone 3G for a couple of weeks, and have found that it mostly keeps its promises. In particular, I found that doing email and surfing the Internet […]

Apple & AT&T stores are expected to open at 8am Friday, July 11th to launch the iPhone 3g. While the company hasn’t released an official press announcement, it doesn’t need to. There are already people waiting in line at some stores, and the launch is likely to be the most heavily hyped tech introduction of […]

Earlier today, we highlighted the expansion of Apple’s iTunes U into K-12 education. Now it looks like Microsoft wants to get in on the educational portable media player market, too. Microsoft is working with Fort Sumner High School in New Mexico and South Valley Junior High in Liberty, Missouri to see how students use audio […]