The iPod accessory scene is a billion dollar market. It’s almost to the point that if you can imagine it remotely applying to an iPod in some fashion, it exists. Well, this is the first time we’ve seen iPod underwear.
Available for girls and boys, iBoxers are boxer shorts featuring a pocket for your digital music companion on the front.
Philips has launched a range of new iPod speaker docks for Apple’s iPhone and iPod range.
The flagship model will be the Philips DC910 Docking Entertainment System. The new iPod speaker dock DC910 both plays and charges iPod devices when docked, and also features USB Direct & SD card slots for MP3/WMA playback. There is 30W RMS power output, backed up with dual wOOx loudspeakers and it will come with a remote control for the lazy.
Use of the mobile Internet may be in its infancy, but one group is embracing the technology in a big way, according to a figures released Tuesday.
Eighty-five percent of iPhone owners searched the Web for news and information using their slick phones in January, making the device the most popular for accessing online information while on the go, according to M:Metrics. “The iPhone has certainly delivered on its hype,” Mark Donovan, senior analyst for M:Metrics, said while releasing the figures. “Beyond a doubt, this device is compelling consumers to interact with the mobile Web, delivering off-the-charts usage from everything to text messaging to mobile video.”
If that’s not enough, 30.9% of iPhone owners watched television or video on their devices, according to M:Metrics’ January survey. That compares with a 4.6% market average. More than 74% listen to music, while the market average for listening to music from mobile subscribers is at a paltry 6.7%, the company said. And 84% of iPhone owners who use an MP3 player use iPods, according to the survey.
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Though just six months old, the Apple iPhone is emerging as a major driver of mobile Web consumption, while traditional smartphone users remain focused primarily on e-mail and messaging.
According to the M:Metrics January Benchmark Survey released this week, 85 percent of iPhone users accessed online information that month, compared with 58.2 percent of the wider smartphone market.
Additionally, nearly 60 percent of iPhone users conducted online searches, with just 37 percent of smartphone users accessing Web search.
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While demographics of the two user groups are very similar, it’s clear that iPhone owners want online entertainment and social engagement while users of the BlackBerry and other smartphones don’t share the same interests.
This will open up a huge market for the iPhone
Ken Dulaney Vice president, Gartner
Support for security and enterprise email in the upcoming software upgrade for the iPhone have led Gartner to change its tune on the device’s suitability for the enterprise environment.
Apple unveiled the iPhone in 2007, positioning the handset primarily as an ultra cool consumer device.
This drew concerns from Gartner about inevitable attempts to use the device in the enterprise. However, the upcoming iPhone 2.0 update has persuaded the analyst to make a U-turn.
The software will usher in a number of mobile business essentials, including push-based email, support for virtual private networks, calendar functionality and contact management.
It’s not easy being No. 2 when No. 1 is Apple’s line of iPod music and video players. SanDisk, which holds that slot, is aiming its new Sansa Fuze player squarely at the iPod Nano. The Fuze is competing mainly on price.
Like the Nano, the Fuze’s batteries are not replaceable, and the Fuze comes in five colors, compared with Nano’s six, though the Fuze has a deep blue choice that iPod lacks.
The 4-gigabyte Fuze at $100 is $50 less than the Nano of the same capacity. The 8-gigabyte Fuze sells for $130, compared with $200 for the comparable Nano. (A 2-gigabyte Fuze is $80.)
Back when Steve Jobs announced the iPhone SDK, he told excited developers that the only applications Apple wouldn’t be permitting through the AppStore were those illegal or pornographic. Now that some of the dust has settled – and those 100,000+ coders sitting down in front of the SDK! – questions are being asked about just how accurate that statement was. While it’s open-season for mobile entertainment software such as games, productive apps or messenger clients, developers behind services such as Rhapsody or Napster, who would rival Apple’s own iTunes store, are curious to know Steve Jobs stance on them creating programs for the iPhone.
“It’s an open question at this point how amenable Apple will be to offering products or applications that could conceivably interfere with its own iTunes revenue stream. The real interesting test case will be Amazon. Here’s a music vendor selling songs that are clearly compatible with the iPhone. Unlike with Rhapsody or Napster, there’s no DRM you need to make work” Ross Rubin, analyst, NPD Group
Engadget has gotten their hands on iPhone firmware version 2.0. Some of the new features include a scientific calculator when you turn your iPhone sideways with the calculator open and the previously announced Exchange support is as smooth as it should be.
When is an iPhone not an iPhone? When it’s a spirit-level, of course; at least, that’s the latest way to repurpose your $399+ wunderphone. Photographer Ben Long was seemingly staging a ghetto photoshoot but lacked a level to make sure his camera was straight. Thankfully he’d had the foresight to Jailbreak his iPhone, load iLevel – which taps into the iPhone’s accelerometer – and slapped that on the back of the Canon to get the shot balanced.
It has been reported that Apple are talking to music companies about giving users free access to the entire itunes music library in exchange for paying a premium for the iPod and iPhone devices.
Apple refused to comment on the plan, but Apple reps say talks are currently regarding just how much they would need to charge to allow access to music label’s libraries.
More news will be published as we get it.
A 17 year old male has been punched and a weapon held to his throat by 2 teenagers who demanded all his cash… AND his ipod.
The 17 year old was waiting at a bus stop near Westfield Shopping Centre at around 7:15PM (AEDT), when a male and a female both ages 18, came up to him and demanded money, the police said.
The female then punched him in the head and demanded that he hand his iPod over, the male then punched him a few times in the face, and then the male put what appeared to be a knife to the victims throat.
He suffered 2 minor cuts to the neck, and had a pair of earphones stolen.
Telstra are now the favorite operator to offer the long waited iPhone.
Telstra SEO Sol Trujillo confirmed that Telstra and Apple had started talking about the iPhone, and if Telstra will be the operator when it’s released in Oz next year.
Mr Trujillo said Telstra would be interested in the device if it delivered an enhanced experience for their customers.
“The answer is simple: yes we’d be interested and we’re exploring that option,” he said.
“We’ve had conversations with Apple and a lot of others and what’s interesting now is that everybody’s now responding to the Apple iPhone.
Via: News.com
Anybody who has ever suffered a hard drive crash, or had a hard drive go to that giant datacenter in the sky, knows the pain involved in restoring your computer files, especially if you dont have full backups.
Now, with the help of an intuitive piece of software called iPod Copy Expert, making backup copies of your iPod playlists just got a whole lot easier. No longer do you have to spend hours all over again ripping your favorite CDs to MP3 so that you can access them on your computer
iPod Copy Expert gives windows users (Win98/2000/ME/XP/Vista) the ability to quickly copy files and playlists from your iPod to a folder on your hard drive, or to import your iPod library directly into iTunes.
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