While Apple’s 1st generation iPhones won’t ship until next month, the company appears to be making plans for a 2nd generation of iPhones that will ship sometime in September. Quanta, which already builds iPods and MacBooks for Apple, commented today on reports that it will be building the updated iPhones: Quanta and Apple are building […]

Turner Broadcasting System‚Äôs TNT and TBS plan to stream all of their original summer series to the Web the morning after they premiere on TV. They will be available on the networks‚Äô Websites, TNT.tv and TBS.com, the next day and remain online for about a month. “We want new viewers to come in, and, while […]

If appliance maker LG has its way, your next MP3 player may be a washing machine. LG has filed for a patent for a Home appliance with MP3 player. Here’s how LG describes their invention: The washing device comprises: an input/output terminal for physically connecting the washing device with the MP3 player for data communication […]

RadioDaddy, an Internet exchange for free voiceovers for radio stations, television, podcasters and movies, has found itself in the dog house with many podcasters over the strange way it announced a new site, VoiceDaddy. Podcaster Rob Walch took issue when he received this email from RadioDaddy: From: ‚ÄúRadioDaddy‚Äù Date: May 27, 2007 2:30:02 PM CDT […]

Microsoft‚Äôs Zune group headquarters now sports an iPod Amnesty Bin at the entrance to their Zune HQ into which employees are supposed to dump their iPods. The company is apparently offering amnesty to employees at Zune HQ who give up their iPods in favor of using the Zune MP3 player. Rex Sorgatz, an MSNBC.com employee, […]

The New York Times has published an article that looks at costs of running contests for user-generated advertising, suggesting that it’s actually more costly than traditional advertising, and that most amateur ads are terrible. “That‚Äôs kind of a popular misnomer that, somehow, it‚Äôs cheaper to do this,” said David Ciesinski, vice president for Heinz Ketchup. […]

Google has introduced a variety of new formats for video ads. The three new formats include: 728×90 Leaderboard 120×600 Skyscraper 160×600 Wide Skyscraper. Previously, video ads were only enabled for the 300×250 Medium Rectangle, the 336×280 Large Rectangle, the 200×200 Small Square, and the 250×250 Square. Advertisers can chose a cost-per-thousand model for displaying ads, […]

An unusual ruling in Finnish courts appears to have declared that it’s open season for hacking DRM’d media. In an unanimous decision, the Helsinki District Court ruled that Content Scrambling System (CSS) used in DVD movies is “ineffective”. The decision is the first in Europe to interpret new copyright law amendments that ban the circumvention […]

Minnetonka Audio Software is shipping AudioTools Batch Pro, a new app that promises to fully automate audio file processing. Batch Pro is a powerful tool for editing, converting, transcoding, encoding, and applying plug-ins to sets of audio files in a batch mode. Users specify input files, configure a chain of processors, set parameters for each […]

If you still have any doubts about whether Apple is going to sell a boatload of iPhones, industry analysts have found that 90% of the people they surveyed think that Apple’s iPhone is better than their own phone. In a joint research effort between its Wireless Device Lab and Intelligent System Strategies program, Strategy Analytics […]