Tag archive: Apple iPod

Hours after Apple released its iOS 4.1 update, coders have identified an exploit in the operating system’s boot ROM. First announced by iPhone Dev-Team member pod2g on Twitter, it has since been confirmed by other hackers. Usually, Apple moves pretty quickly to close loopholes to prevent jailbreaking. But that’s because previous jailbreak holes usually exploited bugs in the operating system. Apple engineers could shut down the jailbreak with a… Read More

The Sony Walkman, a popular portable music device in the '80s that dropped into obscurity in the '90s , is back on top again — in Japan. A survey by the Tokyo-based marketing research company BCN Inc. indicates that Sony — which had consistently placed second to iPod — placed first for the month of August. Sony’s share of the market for digital music players beat out Apple with a 47.8 percent market share last… Read More

If you just got a shiny new iPod or iPhone and need help putting your music on it then you’re in luck. We’ve outlined the simple steps to get your Apple device up and running without any guesswork.

How many of you are constantly messing around with MP3 player headphones? If you are like me, you spend a good minute or two working the maze of cords free and watching your blood pressure rise. And if you are also like me (and not very smart, I might add), you might be trying to do this on a moving elliptical at the gym – trust me, don’t do this unless you are very coordinated. There are some very good tricks out there to help you keep your… Read More

Dell makes computers, right? Well, maybe not just that, if a rumor from the Wall Street Journal is correct. The newspaper has reported that the maker of PCs and servers is set to branch out into the mobile handset market.  According to the article, it won’t be a mobile phone, but a handheld Internet device that will be about the size of an Apple iPod Touch and be powered by Google’s Android operating system. … Read More

Although it's been available in other markets for a while, media player maker Archos is finally bringing its diminutive Archos 2 digital music player to the United States market. And when we say “diminutive” we don't mean so-small-you-could-lose-it like the Apple iPod shuffle, but we do mean the unit maked to be sleek and portable without doing away with a display to help users manage their songs and playlists. And… Read More

Friends. Family. Gainful employment. A chance to dig into a big, juicy turkey with all the fixins and (fingers crossed) actually enjoy a full eight hours of sleep courtesy of a Tryptophan coma. These are tops on the list of things we’re truly thankful for this holiday season. But being the good consumerists and high-tech newshounds we are, we also have to give props where it’s really due – to all the shiny new gadgets and lifesaving… Read More

Now here’s a form of electronic convergence that really works: Rather than investing in separate machines for your home office – namely, a printer, scanner, copier and fax* — one of the latest trends is buying a “multifunction” printer that handles all of these tasks. Sometimes these inkjet or laser-based printers are aptly referred to as “all-in-one” products. Companies may also… Read More

Never far behind the Apple iPod train with new accessories, Belkin on Wednesday announced a new line of cases for the iPod Nano 4G and iPod Touch 2G, devices that that were announced by Apple only a day earlier. The cases announced include many versions of Belkin’s existing designs that have been tweaked for the new, slightly modified devices.  Belkin will offers its Sport Armband Plus, along with an array of two-tone silicone… Read More

Archos has been sticking with the personal media player market, gamely continuing to compete with the Apple iPod juggernaut by consistently offering players that offer more storage, better specs, bigger screens, a wider degree of compatibility, and a wider range of features. Now, the company is rolling the sixth generation of PMPs—dubbed “Internet Media Tablets”—that all pack Wi-Fi, and which include models offering… Read More

Apple has agreed to settle (PDF) a pair of class action lawsuits brought against it in Canada by Inez Lenzi and Bradley Waddell that accused the company of misleading consumers about the battery life of its famous iPod portable media players. Under terms of the settlement, customers who bought particular iPods in Canada on or before June 24, 2004, will be eligible for $45 CDN credit in the Apple Canada online store. The suits… Read More

SanDisk is gunning for the Apple iPod line again, this time taking on the video-capable iPod nano with its new Sansa Fuze line of portable media players. The Sansa Fuze players sport a 1.9-inch color screen, capacities of 2, 4, and 8 GB of flash memory, a microSD slot that enables users to expand storage…and they start at just $79. “The Sansa Fuze is an eye-catching player that consumers will enjoy for its looks, capabilities… Read More

It was interesting that Apple announced their new eight core workstation during CES rather than waiting for MacWorld. This may have simply been to keep folks thinking about Apple during a week where most of us were overwhelmed with product announcements from others. Apple always likes to remind writers that they have something big too. But this new Apple system, while impressive, was no iPhone and the buzz this year for this week… Read More

The digital music service Napster is relaunching itself as a Web-based music service that enables its users to tap into their music from any Web-enabled computer without having to download and install client software. Dubbed “Napster 4.0,” the idea is to make Napster's music service more flexible by being compatible with a wide range of Internet-enabled devices—with the hopes that, in turn, will attract more paying… Read More

Needless to say, like most of tech-savvy America, I’ve been playing Halo 3 for a good chunk of the weekend on my Xbox 360. (I’m not much of a player-vs.-player guy any more when it comes to first-person shooters, but do love the storyline.) And while I’ve been busy killing evil extraterrestrial Covenant forces, LucasArts may have just announced the killer new game that’ll make me want to fire up the Wii as… Read More