Apple today introduced the iPhone software development kit (SDK) at a special event held on its Cupertino campus. In doing so, it hit the ball out of the park, delivering the deep enterprise support that businesses want and delivering the whiz-bang sh** that everybody else wanted to see. If that weren’t enough, Apple announced a […]

There have been a lot of headlines over the last few days about iCrime – the idea that the popularity of iPods is leading to a surge in violent crime. The source for these stories is actually a nearly six-month old paper (pdf) by the Urban Institute research group. The paper argues that the recent […]

A lot of people have trouble explaining Twitter. The people at Common Craft, a series of short explanatory videos, do the job with Twitter in Plain English. Favorite line: “Real life happens between blog posts and emails.”

Tech publisher Ziff Davis Media filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, citing a decrease in revenue from print advertising and subscriptions as contributing to its decline. The company, which publishes PC Magazine, Electronic Gaming Monthly and a variety of web sites, has half a billion dollars in debt, but only $313 million in assets. The company’s […]

BlogTalkRadio today announced that it has updated its Cinch mobile podcasting service to let you use a custom podcast feed URL. Previously, your podcast feed URL was automatically set to your mobile phone number. When the service was introduced, we questioned the decision to embed your phone number in the feed url: I question a […]

Rain Recording has introduced a new Windows digital audio workstation, Solstice Spider Edition. Rain‚Äôs new audio + gaming workstation includes an AMD Phenom 9000 Series quad-core processor, the ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series GPU, and the AMD 7-Series chipset. ‚ÄúRain has seen the convergence of our audio workstations for the purpose of not only music […]

UK mobile developers Coolgorilla have launched the London Travel Guide, a free travel guide specifically designed for iPods, iPhones and mobile phones. The London Travel Guide packs over 400 pages of info, along with interactive features, onto your portable media player. The guide is designed to be regularly updated, so you can have the most […]

Remember Firebrand – the joint venture between Microsoft, NBC Universal and GE to bring you a Internet video destination site made up entirely of commercials? When Firebrand launched, we said that that Firebrand offered everything that you turned to Internet video to avoid: Remember commercials? Those things you used to have to watch, before you […]

Prime Time Rewind TV is a new video site that promises to make it easy to find and watch the primetime network television shows online. “We would like to put you one-click away from watching your show,” claims the site. If that’s their goal, you have to wonder: Why do they present your viewing options […]

Pitchfork Media, a Chicago-based site that offers independent music news, reviews and other content, announced on Tuesday that it plans to launch Pitchformk.tv, a Web-based music video channel next month that will offer “mini-documentaries, secret rooftop and basement sessions, full concerts, exclusive interviews, and the most carefully curated selection of music videos online.” The channel, […]