Educators and home-schoolers interested in getting educational multimedia for K-12 students can now find it in Apple’s iTunes U. While iTunes U originally was created to support the distribution of educational podcasts for colleges & universities, it’s been expanded to support elementary and secondary education as part of an initiative  by several state education agencies […]

Despite Steve Jobs’ best efforts to spin the new iPhone 3G‘s cost, the real user costs are starting to emerge, and it’s not pretty. The iPhone 3G isn’t just more expensive to buy with an AT&T contract, but it’s more expensive to buy if you plan on using it “unlocked”: Subscribers can buy the iPhone […]

Cynical Peak’s Rivet is a Mac OS X app that lets you access your iTunes media on your Xbox 360. In a nutshell, it turns your XBox 360 into Apple TV Jr. You can browse, play, and view your pictures, movies, and video through the Xbox 360’s media blade. Rivet will automatically load and give […]

Is the Microsoft Zune the best portable media player for podcasts? That’s the conclusion of CNet’s Jasmine France, who puts the Zune at the top of her list of the best MP3 players for podcasts: 1. Microsoft Zune: A fantastic podcast option, the Zune even ekes past the iPod for the top spot. The software […]

We already know that John McCain is a huge ABBA fan, from his blog. But what about Barack Obama? What’s on his iPod? Obama says he has “pretty eclectic tastes”: The list of bands reads like the acts at a summer music festival, with the Rolling Stones, Sheryl Crow and Ludacris all in the mix. […]

New Scientist points out some legalese buried into Apple’s iTunes EULA that you’ll want to keep in mind, if you’re planning on using iTunes to run a nuclear reactor: “Licensee also agrees that Licensee will not use the Apple Software for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture […]

Numark has introduced the iDEC, a professional rack-mount solution offering playback and recording for iPod. iDEC’s Universal Dock for iPod permits playback of audio and video from any docking iPod through integrated outputs. It can also record incoming audio in real time at CD-quality 44.1 kHz sampling rate, directly to the docked iPod. The Numark […]

Alesis has introduced the ProTrack, a device that turns an iPod into a professional handheld digital stereo recorder. Two high-quality condenser microphones are built-in, fixed in XY stereo configuration. ProTrack also offers users a pair of combination XLR – 1/4-inch inputs for connection for external microphones and line sources. When running on plug-in power using […]

Time‘s Jeremy Caplan writes that the “iPhone’s next frontier” is – OMG! – porn. iPhone porn that threatens today’s youth. Check out the drippingly lurid intro to Caplan’s article: “Apple may be golden because of the iPhone, but the soon-to-be-updated device is also increasingly the source of forbidden fruit. Steve Jobs’ company is keeping a […]

Apple today announced that it had sold over five billion songs from the iTunes Store. The company also announced that iTunes customers are now renting and purchasing over 50,000 movies every day, making iTunes the world’s most popular online movie store. Apple said in a statement that its iTunes Store is now the world’s most […]