The New York Times jokes that CBS is “taking the iPhone where no iPhone has gone before.”  The announcement must be the inspiration for a million bad Star Trek jokes, but today, CBS Interactive released an iPhone application for its TV.com site. The new application lets users view full episodes of TV series, ranging from […]

Startup company doubleTwist today launched a public beta of a new universal media application for the Mac that’s like iTunes for everything. doubleTwist’s goal for the product is to be “a single, streamlined interface that connects to any device, media source or network.” In other words, they want to make moving your media around, from your […]

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 […]

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 […]

Internet media platform Boxee announced today that their iPhone remote application has been approved by Apple. Soon the remote application will be available (free via the App Store), and will give users a more powerful tool for navigating Boxee. The announcement was just a brief blurb on Twitter, without a lot of detail, so we […]

Earlier in the year, we reported on Apple’s banning of the Podcaster iPhone app from the App Store. At the time, Apple explained its decision like this: Since Podcaster assists in the distribution of podcasts, it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes. We called this a bad decision on Apple’s part, because […]

SlingMedia has announced a version of SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone being developed for the iTunes store at this year’s Macworld. Sling Media plans to deliver a version of SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone to Apple for certification in Q1. SlingMedia is also unveiling a prototype of the new SlingPlayer for Mac HD which allows Slingbox PRO-HD […]

Rockifone’s Easy Recorder (App Store link) is a free iPhone app that turns your iPhone into a dictaphone-style audio recorder.  Easy Recorder doesn’t have a lot of features, but it lets you record audio at three quality levels and the price is hard to beat. To sync recordings, Easy Recorder has a built-in Web server that […]

Media microblogging site Zannel has introduced a new iPhone app, CityWatch (App Store link), that lets you view and post location-based messages and media.  Zannel describes itself as “the microblogging platform built from the ground up for visual bloggers.” Features: See Flickr and Zannel updates for any location on the US or Canada on the […]

Wizzard Media announced today that video embedded on internet websites using the Wizzard Player can now be viewed on the iPhone and iPod Touch. In the past, Apple devices, due to their lack of Flash support, have not been able to access most embedded Web video. When visiting a video website using the iPhone, the […]