The Wall Street Journal has an interview today with Steve Jobs and AT&T Chairman Randall Stephenson about the debut of the iPhone. One of the highlights is Jobs not-so-humble take on the iPhone’s interface: “One of the things we feel is this is the biggest breakthrough in user interfaces in 23 years. Since the Mac […]

U.S. video rental spending is well off its 2001 peak of $10.3 billion, but revenue from online subscriptions is beginning to put some steam back into the rental industry, according to Adams Media Research (AMR). AMR projects online subscription spending to increase by 41% to $1.9 billion in 2007. ‚ÄúThe five-year decline in the video […]

A new report from JupiterResearch shows that, while millions of people are buying multimedia phones, few are using the phones’ music capabilities. Highlights of their report: 27.9 million US consumers are expected to have music phones by the end of this year; The music functionality of these phones will remain largely underutilized; Only about five […]

Movavi has launched Movavi Online, a web-based service that lets you convert video from one format to another – for sharing, podcasting, cellphones, iPods, and more – for free. The new service generates video files specifically tuned for viewing in email, on mobile devices, for video blogging (vlogging) and video podcasting. Options include encoding video […]

Is there anything currently hotter than the iPhone? If Hugh Hefner gets his way, it will be the iPhone plus iPlayboy, a collection of downloadable multimedia features. Hef’s multimedia offering includes photos, audio and video, all formatted for the iPhone. “We have always tried to stay ahead of the curve by delivering the fun, sophistication […]

Apple today announced that all of its 164 retail stores in the US will stay open until midnight to handle the iPhone introduction. Customers will be limited to purchasing two iPhones, on a first come, first served basis. Beginning Saturday morning, Apple will be offering free, in-depth workshops on the iPhone throughout the day at […]

Feed-based search service Feedster has announced a “Web 2.0” style makeover for its site. On first look, this appears to mean that they made the site slow and ugly. Here’s their take on the changes, though: To start with the obvious, the site looks completely different. When comparing the old with the new, it‚Äôs quite […]

Hitwise reports that YouTube traffic is way up since its acquisition by Google. YouTube now gets 50% more traffic than all other video sites combined. Hitwise traffic data shows that the market share of US visits to YouTube has increased by 70% when comparing January 2007 to May 2007 (this only includes site visits, not […]

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that it is against network neutrality regulation, suggesting that it would hamper competition among Internet access providers. The FTC’s Internet Access Task Force issued a report yesterday, Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy, which summarizes the Task Force‚Äôs findings in the area of broadband Internet connectivity and, in particular, […]

¬† PCAudioLabs has released Impact, a new case option its line of studio/music computers. The case,¬†a modular rack-mount design with acoustic foam insulation,¬†was designed from the ground up taking into account how computers are used during the process of recording and mixing audio. Prices for configured Impact audio workstations start at US $2,675. Details at […]