Now you have no excuse to wait to go on that run because your phone or iPod doesn’t have enough juice yet. The nPower PEG charges any device with a standard USB 2.0 while you’re on the go, allowing you to multi-task like you’ve never done before. Using your kinetic energy, you place the device vertically in your bag, and presto, you’re …
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Celebrity-Tech Collaborations: A Win-Win for Both Sides
Everyone loves a celebrity endorsement: From athletic equipment to food to cars, consumers can’t turn on their televisions today without seeing someone famous being a spokesperson for a big-name product. But recently, more and more artists and entertainers are making endorsement deals with tech products — and using those opportunities …
Did Skype Talk Itself Into A Lawsuit By Explaining Last Week’s Outage?
Skype is really not having the best holiday season. With no reason as yet revealed for the service outage that lasted more than a day last week (Although CEO Tony Bates blogged that technicians “now understand the cause of the problem and we believe it was not caused by a malicious attack”; a post-mortem has been promised in the near …
Samsung Prepping Android-based iPod Touch Competitor
Samsung is apparently readying an Android-based music player based on its popular line of “Galaxy S” smartphones.
The Galaxy Player will be similar to Apple’s iPod Touch in that it’ll basically be an Android phone without the phone part, much like the iPod Touch is more or less an iPhone without the cellular chipset.
Cricket Announces Wireless Rate Plan, Includes Unlimited Music
San Diego-based mobile phone service provider Cricket introduced a new wireless rate plan for their customers which includes unlimited full track downloads of music tracks and ringtones via their partnership with the Muve Music Service. For $55 a month, subscribers will receive unlimited nationwide calling, 3G web, email, data backup …
Oh Amazon, Why Can’t You Be More Like iTunes?
Recent numbers show that iTunes accounts for about 66% of the downloadable music market, with Amazon trailing a distant second at around 13%. There are two big reasons Amazon should be kicking the bits out of iTunes, but Apple’s stubbornly immovable music service only seems to keep getting bigger and stronger.
Amazon beats iTunes in …
Are You Ready For 3D Radio?
BBC Radio is testing out 3D audio technology that will change the way we listen, according to The Telegraph. You won’t be able to visualize sound, but by using specifically positioned speakers you’ll be able to get the surround sound experience from a broadcast. The government-funded company tested out the technology for a few listeners …
Man Raises Over $500,000 to Build iPod Watches
When Apple announced its new 1.5-inch touchscreen iPod Nano in early September, it didn’t take long before people started dreaming of making the tiny music player into a wristwatch.
About two weeks ago, a Chicago-area designer named Scott Wilson turned to fundraising site Kickstarter.com to try to drum up some financial support for …
How To: Recycle Your Old Gadgets
Found yourself with heaps of past-generation gadgetry? Instead of tossing them out with the trash, recycle. We’ll spare you the scolding, though discarding gadgets can be really hazardous, especially when it comes to leaking batteries – and give you the best tips for trading, recycling – even selling your old tech. That way, you …
Beatles Crawling All Over Top iTunes Albums Already
If you were wondering, as I was, whether the Beatles would sell on iTunes, the answer appears to be an emphatic YES. In a little more than 24 hours, various Beatles albums have taken over several spots in iTunes’ “Top Albums” list. Mashable reports that every Beatles album available on iTunes has found its way into the top 36 albums at …
Beatles on iTunes: Will They Sell?
The Beatles have hit iTunes.
The “Beatles Box Set” is priced at $149 and features “all of the band’s studio albums as well as the Past Masters collection.” Single albums are also available for download at between $13 and $20 each.
I’d be very interested to see how well these albums sell. I can’t imagine too many people have been …
Will Apple Announce Web Based iTunes Tomorrow?
We will never forget whatever Apple’s announcing tomorrow, according to the teaser text on the company’s website. “Ah, November 16th. The day Apple launched iTunes for the web,” we might say in the year 2056. That’s not to say that Apple’s launching iTunes for the web, but a web-based version of iTunes would certainly be a relatively big …