"Everyone's surprised by it," admits Eric Bone, a retail VP at SanDisk, the leader in SD cards, when I reached him just after Apple's keynote address wrapped up. Bone did a double take--along with the rest of ...READ»
A few months ago my younger daughter turned six. Attempting to make myself useful before the birthday party, I was hanging a large piñata, when my better-half approached me and whispered provocatively: "Man, please follow me ...READ»
Microsoft must really feel the heat from Apple's success. In a new ad campaign, the technology behemoth targets the hidden costs of iPod ownership. There's also a confusing leak pointing to a potential Zune-based phone that's due in ...READ»
Microsoft may have another new audio player up its sleeve: The Zune "3rd," as it's being dubbed. The tip came in the form of a supposed advertising image, seen below, courtesy of Gizmodo.
News of this Zune, which appears ...READ»
We're not likely to see steam-powered iPod generators on the market any time soon, but this is still a neat project. A steampunk fan named Thomas matched a Lego Technic Motor to a Jensen #75 steam engine and soldered in a USB ...READ»
I exist mostly in an Apple ecosystem: I work on a Mac, call on an iPhone, and work out with a Shuffle. And yet, here I am, spending more and more time on Rhapsody.
Rhapsody, Real's subscription-based music service, is my tech life's ...READ»
The new iPod Shuffle caused a whirlwind of controversy last week for no particular reason--the Shuffle's not the world's most important product, and requiring special headphones is no great shakes. Enraged commenters even thought ...READ»
Super-strong artificial muscles and telephony iPods? The future looks brighter--especially if you listen to President Obama's plans, as he laid them out for Jay Leno on Thursday. And with Gmail's new "Undo" feature, even ...READ»
If you're an iPhone user, you just looked at Apple's [AAPL] new 4GB iPod Shuffle and groaned.
Announced this morning, the little stainless steel slab is beautifully minimalist, and about the size of a piece of Trident. But its ...READ»
Apple's iPod shuffle was already among the smallest MP3 players on the market, but the company has just released a largely re-invented shuffle that's even more compact and comes with two times as much storage.The shuffle now has a ...READ»
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? Check out the clever spin Agencies in Action takes on some of the most iconic advertising imagery of our time. Nike's "Just Do It," Apple's iTunes silhouette, and HSBC's ...READ»
Who'd have thought gesture-based controls would expand to this: A new invention by Kazuhiro Taniguchi, at Osaka University, lets you control your iPod by pulling different facial expressions.
The gizmo works by having highly ...READ»
I’m in Redmond, Wash., right now as I write this, running a workshop for Microsoft. And we have been discussing Apple’s motus operandi of locking up some critical resources before it launches a product. Apple employs this tactic ...READ»
It's been a tough year for Redmond: bricking Zunes, class-action suits, and the people-hate-Vista debacle. You'd think those three catapstrophes would be enough to make the PC giant shape up. You'd be wrong.
Microsoft [MSFT], it ...READ»
This is a wonderful (or perhaps just sickly bizarre) mix of pleasure and danger: It's an iPod Touch mounted to a sniper rifle. And it's not just there to deliver some banging battlefield tunes to the ear of the guy behind the trigger, ...READ»
It's been a week now since Phil Schiller's first and last keynote speech for Apple at MacWorld, and now that the hype has come and gone, we can look at which of the supposedly "hot" rumored products surfaced, which didn't, and which ...READ»
Need a Christmas gift for that friend who drinks a little too much at parties, and then wants to drive? Or maybe you're even distrustful of your own driving after a rocking New Year's Eve? Then David Steele Enterprises just may have ...READ»
After a furor of speculation this weekend that Wal-Mart [WMT] might be the next retailer to carry Apple's [AAPL] iPhone 3G, a few details have finally emerged. According to Bloomberg, the world's largest retailer will begin stocking ...READ»
Software company Nero announced today a new product called LiquidTV that will allow consumers to turn there Windows PCs into TiVo [TIVO] digital video recorders. Just as they would on a TiVo set-top box, users will be able to pause, ...READ»
Last week saw the announcement of a cool Sony [SNE] boombox that inahles your iPod as if it were one of its own organs. Now there's word that there are several more iPod dock boomboxes on the way from Sony, though the next few are ...READ»
Audio books and eBooks make way for the…V-book? Simon and Schuster Audio is launching its newest platform—akin to an author presentation, and aimed mainly at iPod users—by partnering with well-known sales guru Jeffrey Gitomer. ...READ»
Lots of boomboxes have iPod docks, but none swallow your iPod so completely as Sony's [NYSE:SNE] new ZS-S4iP. Naturally, Sony found a new way to make their product names impossible to remember -- use lowercase AND capital letters, ...READ»
Yesterday in San Fransisco, Apple [NASDAQ:AAPL] announced a slew of music-related device and software updates for the iPod and Macintosh. Some are big and some are small, but as a collective whole, the updates are an effective ...READ»
If ever there were a saturated market, it might be the ubiquitous iPod dock: the speaker-with-charging station device that everyone and their mother has on their kitchen counter. Not happy with this level of market permeation, Bose ...READ»
About a million-and-one Apple [NASDAQ:AAPL] patents are uncovered every year by ambitious fanboys, but few ever bear the fruit of products that actually come to market. Nevertheless, a lot can be said of Apple patent-scanning, ...READ»
