Since the introduction of the Apple iPhone on January the 9th, the world has gone touch pad crazy, touch pad technology is the way of the future and many companies have heard the call and made their own touch pad phones in direct competition with the iPod. Now is touchscreen, the iPhone has its own mobile category (The iPhone Killer), almost all manufacturers realize that if they want to sell their smartphones they should label them as …

MoboVivo has been testing new technology that allows its users to purchase directly from an iPhone and synchronize television programs. The “Buy and Sync” program has been running since the iPhone release in June. Features continue to be added that will make it even easier to watch TV shows directly on a users iPhone or iPods.

Available channels include MoboDiva, MoboDocs, UrbanVivo, lifestyle and entertainment. Most programming is available around the world with few restrictions. It is compatible …

Today Microsoft chairman and mastermind, Bill Gates, announced that the software giant is giving away million of dollars in developer applications with a new iniciative called DreamSpark, which will provide professional software tools available at no charge to high school and university students worldwide. Wow, good software samaritan, we all love Microsoft, we really do.

The problem here is that for Microsoft it is nothing more than another Netscape, why? See it this way, why on earth would …

Adobe has announced Adobe Stock Photos, the service integrated into Adobe Bridge, will be discontinued as of April 1, 2008. An FAQ is posted to address common questions (especially if you’re an ASP user), and there are uninstallers for Mac and Windows that let you remove ASP from Bridge if you’d like.

The FAQ is very light on the rationale for the decision, but in an interview with StockAsylum’s Ron Rovtar (subscription required for part of it), Adobe director James …

MobileScrobbler connects your Apple iPhone or iPod Touch with the Last.fm social music website. As you listen to music on your device, MobileScrobbler sends the title, artist, and album to the Last.fm website. Last.fm uses this information to suggest new music, new friends, concerts, and events based on the music you listen to.

Features
Scrobble tracks as you listen on your iPhone / iPod touch
Queues songs for submission when offline and automatically submits them the next time you …

While Sony’s Electronic books have been out for a while, the Amazon Kindle looks like the real winner in the E-Book arena, it is backed by Amazon, which one of its business is sell books, so there is nobody else as ready to provide this kind of experience as Amazon, they provide the ideal environment for this kind of device and in not matter of time they will turn the market upside down. Sony strategy with …

We all know the innovator in Apple, they can transform pure simplicity into marvel, why not apply this expertise to the TV. The Television as we know it hasn’t changed in years, we have HDTV, LC TV, Plasma TV, but the concept it is the same, UP/DOWN, 1234567890, picture in picture and none of them have given a brain to the TV. The TV was the center of your home and lose its crown to the …

There is not time to crash a party than in the begining of itsel…. Coincidence, every major Apple news there is something bad around or Microsoft manages to launch one of its products…. Now it is Leopard and a porno trojan that changes your mac ip address disguised as a codec… only if you let it, everytime a strange application tries to change your mac settings, Mac OS let you know, and only if you accept it …

Reading about Napster search for a new business model I realized that all this time Apple was right about refusing to turn itunes into a suscription service. All analysts were talking about how Apple was missing the most profitable oportunity without suscriptions and how those services will destroy itunes. Now the news is that being into the suscription business wasn’t so profitable, worst those services were burning money, what would do suscribed to a services that don’t let you …

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs is reportedly “very interested” in a world where people share their WiFi connections in return for free access to other wireless hotspots in their communities, and recently met with the founder of upstart provider FON, whose business aims might just dovetail with the iPhone maker.

Jobs had previously read about FON, the latest venture of Argentinean new media entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky, which launched in November 2005 under mantra “WiFi for everyone.” It sells routers that have …

The popularity of itunes+ipod has transformed Apple from a tiny Computer maker that was working its ass off for a success to the most important computer company in the world, and that transformation has brought some free enemies, those that in a time were friends and willing to help now are preparing a contra attack to tumble down what took Apple years to make, itunes music store.

First was Apple Records that prohibited Apple Computers to enter in …

Now that Apple is better than expected what are Universal’s people thinking? Can they continue warning Apple about taking their music from itunes? or would they realize that Apple is now in better position to take on anybody Apple wants? These people hasn’t wake up from last night dream and continue believing that they can achieve better results if they handle their music, but they hasn’t done any innovation in the music space and pretend to milk the cow …

Itunes has dominated the music space for a long time based on innovation, easy to use and its natural symbiosis with the ipod, dozens of well features players have come and gone and itunes still prevail, but recently those that have standed the itunes power (marketshare and mindshare) and survived are refining its features plus new offering of online music players that are appearing every week, now is ezmo, a flash based online music player that promises to let …

People from Universal Music are preparing new attacks to the bigger online music store, Itunes, they are readying an online music store with DRM-Free tracks, but the issue here is that those DRM-Free tracks won’t be available on itunes, they will be bringing their music catalog to poor services like Real Network’s Rhapsody, Amazon, Best Buy, Google and Walmart, letting out Itunes.

With this move Universal thinks that they can better manage its music catalog, but the Music industry has showed …

Since the begining of the Ipod Era we have seen hundreds of ripoffs trying to lure customers from Apple, some of them with good design in hardware and software and others are just wasting time and money trying to derail the ipod train.

Now we are even seeing more and more companies working togethers to create the same iphone experience, we have even seen some prototypes from Nokia, Samsung, HTC, Meizu, the recently announced LG’s Voyager, Sun with Java …