Apple CEO Steve Jobs posted a surprising statement on the company’s site today, challenging the music industry to abandon DRM (copy protection) on digital music downloads. Jobs outlines three possible futures for digital music: Continue as is it is now, with each manufacturer competing freely with their own “top to bottom” proprietary systems for selling, playing and protecting music. […]

A new service from WCities lets you automatically put city guides on your iPod. PodCityGuides offers over 300 City Guides worldwide that can be downloaded and synced to your iPod. The guides feature information about hotels, restaurants, nightclubs, movies, local events, concerts, the weather and news. The service offers a free application for Windows that […]

We’re not sure if we really want to plug headphones into a watch, but the Swatch Infinity looks pretty sexy. It is a bracelet-style digital watch that features a removable face, MP3 player, video and photo viewer. Unfortunately, it’s a design concept by designer Pierre Merlet.

There seems to be no end to the ingenuity of people that come up with iPod-related gadgets. Here are four of the stranger new ipod-accessories that we’ve seen: The iPod Hymn Book is a leather case designed for 30G and 80G Video iPods. According to the manufacturer, the case will help you protect and worship […]

Upgrading to Vista may result in the inability to play songs purchased from the online iTunes store and may corrupt your iPod. Apple Computer is warning customers who use the Windows version of its iTunes software to hold off upgrading to Windows Vista until it can release a patch to fix a number of serious […]

CrunchGear is reporting that Microsoft is planning to release an an iPod-phone killer, the Zune phone: It will be a smartphone that works homogeneously with the Zune marketplace. It will most likely not, however, run Windows Mobile. Rather it‚Äôll make use of an interface similar to the current Zune, an interface that I consider among […]

Microsoft has announced that Bryan Lee, the executive responsible for the launch of the company’s controversial Zune media player, will be leaving the company. The launch of Microsoft’s portable media player is widely viewed as a fiasco, with more polite reviews saying the Zune is a dismal failure, and others just saying the Zune zucks. […]

iPodJuice.com has introduced iPod Video battery replacement kits for 80GB video iPods. “Customers have been able to purchase batteries for the 30GB and 60GB iPod Video for a while now,” said Anthony Magnabosco, owner of ipodjuice.com, “but not until recently can they also pick one for the new 80GB player.” While most of the company’s […]

Apple today announced that the iPod shuffle is now available in five colors: blue, pink, green, orange and the original silver. ‚ÄúiPod shuffle is the world‚Äôs most wearable digital music player,‚Äù said Greg Joswiak, Apple‚Äôs vice president of Worldwide iPod Product Marketing. ‚ÄúMusic fans can now choose iPod shuffle in one of five brilliant colors, […]

The US is bringing out the big guns to punish North Korea’s Kim Jong-il, taking away his iPod priveleges. The US has banned exports of iPods, fine wines and fast cars to North Korea as part of the punishment for the country’s nuclear bomb test last year. The sanctions are said to be targeted at […]