Mp3 Players & PMPs Category - Page 13
Google Acquires PushLife [Canadian Mobile Music Syncing Company Acquired by Google for $25 Million]
Google has made it big with Android, but still needs to incorporate several mobile-based services to innovate. In line with the reported mobile sync service for Honeycomb, Google has acquired Canadian mobile music syncing company PushLife.
ESPN Launches Its Own Mobile App Allowing For Access Anywhere [After Recently Spurning Time Warner's App, ESPN Launches Its Own Mobile Version]
Well that explains a lot, now doesn’t it? Just six days after we put up the news that ESPN couldn’t possibly join Time Warner’s iPad app lineup, the news emerges that instead, ESPN has built its own app, which is now reportedly appearing on iOS hardware everywhere.
iTunes Video Cloud Measured In Petabytes [Sources Report That Apple Has Been Buying Storage For The iTunes Video Cloud To The Tune of 12 Petabytes]
I’ll lead right off by saying that this is early-stage stuff, depending on inside sources, so the whole story is hardly emerged, but what we’ve seen so far is definitely an eyebrow-archer. Apple’s been buying storage from the folks out at EMC subsidiary Isilon Systems, and buying it up in [...]
New Apple Patent Shows Dock Connector Offering USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt [A Recently-Emerged Patent Drawing Shows Apple Looking To Add Variety of Connections to iOS Gear]
USB 3.0 is not going away, folks, and thanks to things like those which Apple is developing (as evidenced by things like the pic below from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office), it might be a step closer to becoming as widespread as USB 2.0 is today.
Altec Lansing Octiv 650 Puts Out Both Sound and Video [Altec Lansing's New iPhone Dock Has Video Output As Well As Sound, Supports Music Mood]
So we haven’t heard much out of the folks out at Altec-Lansing these days, and I personally find that a shame because I recall they always did nicely with computer audio products. And thankfully, that’s what they came back in with with their Octiv 650 iPod / iPhone dock.
David Bowie Looks To Release Golden Years As iPhone App [Sovereign Hits The iPhone With iPhone App, Packs Custom Remixes]
You may know him better as the Guild of Calamitous Intent’s Sovereign on The Venture Brothers, but David Bowie’s coming back to the music scene, on the iPhone. He’s set to bring back Golden Years as an iPhone app, but it’s not just a straight re-release; you’ll also get a [...]
128GB iPod touch 5G Gets Leaked, Loses Home Button [Next-gen iPod touch Image Available in the Wild, Suggests the iPhone 5 Might Not Have a Physical Button Anymore Either]
We knew this could happen – Apple to ditch the physical Home button of its iOS devices – and the iPod touch 5G together with the iPhone 5 could be the first two iOS devices to pack a capacitive Home button, instead of a physical one.
Digital Music Will Outsell CDs By End Of Year In United States [Reports Emerge Saying The Year Of The ePublisher Is Not Limited To Books]
It was already looking steadily clearer that 2011 was going to at least start the year of the epublisher, with hardback books rapidly losing ground to ebooks, and paperbacks likely not far behind. But now…now the game has changed again, as reports emerge saying that, in the United States, digital [...]
Sony Shows Off New Headphones, Earbuds [Sony's New Portable Gear the, NC-13 Earbuds and RF865 Headphones, Offers Noise Cancelation and Long-Range Wireless]
Seems that Sony’s been busy lately, and the results of all their industry has yielded a set of new audio devices for the portable market, specifically, the RF865 headphones and the NC-13 earbuds. But wait until you hear what these bring to the table.
JBL OnBeat iPad Speaker Dock Gets Shown Off [JBL's New Speaker Dock, The OnBeat, Looks To Start A Conversation]
It was definitely something of a surprise to see an item from JBL cross my path today, and even more so that it was, of all things, an iPad speaker dock. It’s the JBL OnBeat, and they’re looking to make it a conversation starter…and with good reason.

