It looks like iPod Monday at Des Moines, Iowa’s The Lift bar may be coming to an end. Apple wants The Lift to stop using the name “iPod Monday” to describe the bar’s weekly event in which patrons get together and share their musical tastes via their iPods. “Please choose a name for your product […]

While Steve Jobs may have a vision for the future of digital music, Warner Music isn’t buying it. The company said on Thursday it will keep anti-piracy copy protection for digital songs sold on services such as Apple Inc.’s iTunes Music Store. The company’s comments come two days after Apple Inc.’s chief executive Steve Jobs […]

Apple iPod connectivity is standard across the Scion lineup for 2008. Scion’s standard 160-watt maximum output Pioneer AM/FM/CD audio system features a head unit with iPod control. The head unit integrates track, artist and album information from the iPod into a one-line display on the head unit’s screen. Connectivity is achieved by plugging the iPod […]

More accessible technology and maturing business models are opening the floodgates for web video from both professionals and non-professionals, according to experts. According to Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of web video provider Brightcove, the internet is rapidly moving from a “text web” to a “video web”, spurred by the dropping costs of producing and hosting […]

Apple’s new iPhone will easily meet its sales goals, with nearly 1 in 10 interested in buying the new phone. If Apple can cut the price, demand for the phone could double. Here are the highlights of a recent survey on the iPhone: Meeting sales goals shouldn’t be a problem. The survey shows that this […]

Bamboo MediaCasting today launched MediaToob, a mobile podcast service that delivers audio and video podcasts to mobile phones worldwide for offline access. The MediaToob one-click selection and viewing interface, together with background delivery, is designed to make it easy for users to enjoy mobile podcasts. MediaToob can deliver rich audio and video content including television […]

Amazon and TiVo have announced Amazon Unbox on TiVo, a soon-to-be-launched service feature that will provide TiVo subscribers with the ability to rent and purchase movies and television shows from leading studios and networks including CBS, Fox Entertainment Group, Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Warner Bros. Entertainment. Amazon Unbox on TiVo is […]

While Steve Jobs call for the record labels to end DRM has been warmly received around the world, his remarks’ reception from competitors and the labels themselves has been downright chilly. Executives at the major labels dismiss Jobs’ challenge, saying that eliminating DRM isn’t going to happen. The marketing director for Microsoft’s struggling Zune portable […]

Former Disney star and tween favorite Hilary Duff is joining the ranks of video podcasters with her Hilary Duff Video Podcast. Unfortunately, instead of offering tween geeks the style of family entertainment people associate with the star, the video podcast is little more than an advertisement for Hilary Duff branded merchandise. Adding insult to injury, […]

mywaves has introduced a new service, Auto Channels, that lets you create a personalized mobile video channel. The service works as a content aggregator. You give it a search phrases, and Auto Channels searches the Web and automatically delivers relevant videos your mobile phones. Videos are delivered as a streaming channel. The service checks for […]