Singapore Airlines (SIA) claims that it’s the first airline to offer passengers the ability to connect their iPods to an in-flight entertainment (IFE) system. The first flight to allow passengers iPod integration with the Panasonic Avionics IFE system was operated out of Singapore earlier this month. The Airbus A340-500 is operating to Newark in the […]

It’s starting to look like members of the Screen Actors Guild may be heading for a strike like the recent Writers’ strike. Studios have suspended talks with the Screen Actors Guild after three weeks of negotiations. One of the main reasons for the breakdown in talks is that actors balked at a studio proposal that […]

Democrats are allowing select bloggers access to the floor of the national convention in Denver this summer. Fifty-five bloggers have been chosen: ALASKA: Celtic Diva’s Blue Oasis: divasblueoasis.blogspot.com ALABAMA: Doc’s Political Parlor: www.politicalparlor.net ARKANSAS: Under The Dome.com: www.underthedome.com ARIZONA: Ted Prezelski – Rum, Romanism and Rebellion: www.rumromanismrebellion.net CALIFORNIA: Calitics: Calitics.com COLORADO: SquareState.net: squarestate.net CONNECTICUT: My […]

Magnify has introduced a new service that promises to make it easy for Movable Type and WordPress publishers to incorporate media from a variety of sites. Magnify Publisher is a native blog application that lets you search for video, text, and images, using key words and tags, and embed the content directly into a post, […]

Think text-messaging plans for mobile phones are a scam? A University of Leicester space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones costs more than sending data via the Hubble Space Telescope. He worked out the cost of obtaining a megabyte of data from Hubble – and compared that with the cost of […]

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an off-the-record explanation from an RIAA official on how they identify colleges and universities to target: The official explained that one way the RIAA identifies pirates is by using LimeWire, a popular peer-to-peer file-sharing program that is free online and used by many college students (there is also a […]

Addonics has introduced a 1.8″ ZIF – CF Adapter kit that you can use to make your iPod faster and more shock resistant. The adapter (ADZIFCF) supports several types of Compact Flash media including PIO, DMA, UDMA4 for up to a 40MB/s transfer rate. In addition to iPods, the adapter supports any laptop computer or […]

iPhone apps are quickly going mainstream. Payless Car Rental has announced an iPhone-formatted version of its site for the iPhone and iPod touch: We recently launched a slimmed-down version of the Payless website for iPhone and iPod Touch users. Simply point your iPhone or iPod Touch to PaylessCarRental.com (or PaylessCar.com). The iPhone and iPod Touch […]

Advertisers are spending more at niche, or “long tail” web sites, and less at large sites, according to figures from PubMatic, a advertising service for publishers. The PubMatic AdPrice index shows that, while average ad rates are falling, rates at niche sites are actually on the rise. eCPMs (effective cost per 1000 ad impressions) for […]

Television content available through Apple’s iTunes Store continues to grow. HBO and Apple today officially announced that programming from HBO is now available for purchase and download via the iTunes Store. Programs include The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Deadwoo, Rome, Flight of the Conchords and The Wire. “We’re very excited to make these legendary […]