Microsoft’s highly anticipated Zune introduction has turned into a debacle. The Chicago Sun-Times says Avoid the loony Zune. “Microsoft’s new Zune digital music player is just plain dreadful. I’ve spent a week setting this thing up and using it, and the overall experience is about as pleasant as having an airbag deploy in your face.” […]

The recent news that YouTube is working with Verizon to bring a selection of YouTube content to cell phones is striking some as more evidence that YouTube as you know it is dead. YouTube‚Äôs phone-based version will require a $15-a-month subscription to a Verizon Wireless service called VCast. VCast users will be able to view […]

An executive at Google is predicting that an iPod will hold all the world’s TV in 12 years. Speaking at the FT World Communications Conference, Nikesh Arora, Google’s VP of European operations, told delegates that, in the coming years, the plummeting price of storage and its increasing volume-to-size ratio will give iPods almost unlimited potential […]

After years of legal battles with Apple Records over the right to use the name Apple in connection with music, Apple Computer is reported to be close to bringing the Beatles’ catalog into the digital age. “We certainly will do everything we can to get them on iTunes,” said Apple iTunes VP Eddy Cue earlier […]

The world of iPod vibrators just got a bit more complicated. Lovehoney has introduced the iBuzz Two, described as “the world’s first music-activated sex toy for couples.” Video below – not work-safe – involves simulated rabbits…..

Makayama Interactive has released version 3.0 of iPod Media Studio, an application that streamlines copying video or DVDs to iPods. The upgraded software supports new video formats, such as Youtube content and subtitles are rendered much faster then before. Windows Media files (wmv and dvr-ms) and Flash video, such as Youtube content, may now be […]

Apple has applied for several patents relating to podcasting: Acquisition, management and synchronization of podcasts relates to acquiring and playing podcasts on a portable media device. Techniques and systems for supporting podcasting relates to receiving a portable subscription file that is used to facilitate subscribing to the podcast; accessing the portable subscription file to obtain […]

Newsweek tech writer Steven Levy had us feeling a bit not-so-fresh with his discussion of the erotic charge of iPods in his book The Perfect Thing. Now Levy appears to have confused the widely criticized wireless features of Microsoft’s Zune portable media player with squirting, a colloquial term for female ejaculation. “Have you squirted a […]

iPods are bad for America, according to controversial television personaity Bill O’Reilly, host of The O’Reilly Factor TV and radio shows. In a recent “Radio Factor”, O’Reilly took issue with both the iPod and Sony PS3. “I don’t own an iPod. I would never wear an iPod,” said O’Reilly. “If this is your primary focus […]

Nielsen Media Research recently announced that it has begun gathering information on usage of Apple‚Äôs iPod, and has found that most iPod owners spend far more time using them to listen to music or audio podcasts than they do using them to watch TV or movies. This report, which is of qualified significance because its […]