On May 6, the Zune Spring 2008 update will be made available to all Zune owners. Here’s what’s in store: Television On The Zune More than 800 episodes of television series to download and watch (on the desktop and to sync to the Zune) including “South Park,” “Afro Samurai,” “Witchblade,” “The Hills,” “The Office,” “Heroes,” […]

MacRumors reports that AT&T hotspots are now offering free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users. Barnes and Noble, Starbucks and presumably AT&T’s 71,000 other Wi-fi hotspot locations are now offering iPhone users a custom portal to access free Wi-Fi. A special iPhone formatted page asks for your mobile phone number. Once entered, you can access the […]

Rolling Stone has an interesting interview with Metallica’s Lars Ulrich that touches on the state of Metal, the band’s fight against Napster, how they are using digital music and trying to learn from Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails: You were one of the first artists to sue over copyright infringement and voice concerns over aspects […]

Molly Wood has a great take on the state of the Zune over at Crave, offering 5 reasons she’s leaving the Zune behind and a scary tale about how her Zune erased thousands of her songs: About two weeks ago, I was going on a trip. My Zune’s battery had run out, so I plugged […]

According to report at StorageProPortal, a team of Scottish Nanotechnology scientists claim that they can cram up to 500 Terabyte worth of data onto one square inch – putting 100 millions songs on your iPod. Unfortunately, the Glaswegian team’s research is “in the conceptual stages” – which means that these 500 Terabyte iPods probably won’t […]

I’m a big fan of Apple TV – but it’s going to be a hard sell unless Apple gets more studios on board and builds up a library of long-tail content. Apple TV & iTunes currently offer less than 1,000 movies  – or about 89,900 less than Netflix: The version of the iTunes Store reachable […]

eMusic, the world’s second-largest digital music service after iTunes, today announced that it has sold more than 200 million downloads since establishing its current subscription model in November 2003. The total comprises music downloads sold in the U.S. and the E.U., where eMusic has been available in all 27 E.U. nations since September 2006. The […]

In a paper published in today’s issue of Science, a team at IBM’s research centre in San Jose, California, said they have developed a new type of digital storage which would enable a device such as an MP3 player to store about half a million songs – or 3,500 films – and cost far less […]

If you want to rip DVDs to use on your iPod or iPhone, the free OS X app Instant HandBrake makes it a no-brainer. Instant Handbrake is a stripped down version of HandBrake, a general video ripping tool. Stripping away the extra options makes the app a lot less confusing for casual users. Here’s how […]

Based on the latest stats from M:Metrics, the iPhone is delivering on its hype, radically changing what people are doing with the mobile Web. Check out some of these figures: The iPhone is already the most popular device for accessing news and information on the mobile Web, with 85 percent of iPhone users accessing news […]