Apple is offering highlights of the 2007 Major league baseball season on iTunes.
The show titled “MLB.com Daily Rewind” will have a 25 minute show and 2 games of the week. Customers will be able to download each game of the week for $1.99 or get a monthly pass for $7.99.
During a keynote speech at CTIA, an AT&T spokesman noted that they had recieved over 1 million enquiries about the iPhone.
“One million people have asked us to call when this phone is available” Randall Stephenson said, who will be supplying the iPhone to customers when it is available in June.
Apple predicts to sell around 10 Million at launch.
Essential Tech have released the iUSB, which allows you to connect your iPod Shuffle to a USB port without without having to use the Shuffle 2G Dock.
It allows for song transfer and charging and is compatible with both Mac and PC, which is excellent aswell to plug straight into a laptop while travelling. The iUSB also comes with a convenient lanyard loop on the side so you can attach it to backpack or laptop case.
The iUSb is available from iPod Accessory retailer Easyishop for only £5.99.
A report published on Forbes.com suggests that Apple has over stated the iPhone, The analyst thinks Apple did not make the right choice when selecting Cingular as exclusive carrier in the United States, because it may lose customers under contract with other major US carriers.
“Worldwide shipments of converged mobile devices (i.e. smartphones) increased 42% year-over-year to 80.5 million units in 2006. It also remains under-penetrated and offers plenty of growth potential. But the bad news is that it currently represents less than 10% of the total number of handsets likely sold last year. This suggests a much smaller market for the iPhone than one might assume. Even if the growth in smart phones could support the sale of 10 million iPhones by 2008, Apple’s own strategic decisions could easily prevent the company from meeting its target. The most limiting of these is its decision to offer the product only through AT&T.”
An EU Commissioner has hit out at Apple for bundling iTunes with its iPods as “Unfair” to customers.
Meglena Kuneva, the Eu comissioner for consumer protection pointed out that CDs will play in all CD players, but that a song purchased on iTunes will only play on an iPod, and that “something has to change.”
“I find it quite improper and I will do my best to change it.”
The comission were quick to note that the comments of Mr Kuneva were personal and don’t indicate a change in regulation.
Apple has come under fire in Europe earlier this year, with Norway claiming that itunes was illegal.
Apple have updated iTunes today. Amongst the improvements are a few fixes to the Windows Vista problmes. Although there are still bugs with ejecting your iPod while in Vista,
“Apple is actively working with Microsoft to resolve a few remaining known issues”
iTunes 7.1 also supports a new full screen Cover Flow and improved sorting options to let you decide how iTunes should sort your favorite artists, albums, and songs.
It is expected that Apple will make a huge announcement in April at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show.
At the NAB in 2005, Apple launched Final Cut Studio and Soundtrack Pro, while this year it is expected that they will show off a new version of Final Cut Pro and an 8 core desktop.
Time will only tell, so we’ll have to wait for April 15th to see what Apple ahs to show us. No doubt the rumour mill will be hitting over drive until then.
This April Sennheiser will release the PXC 450’s. The headphones offer 90% noise cancellation, which is a 10-20% improvement on previous models.
Another great new function is the talk talkthrough button, which turns down your music without having to switch off the noise cancellation allowing for conversation while using the headphones.
The headphones should be great for long haul flightrs, as the noise cancellation means people around you don’t have the annoying hum of your music next to them.
The Sennheiser PXC 450’s will be available in April with a recommended retail price of £300.
A US aircraft manufacturer wants to use iPods as their in flight recorders.
LoPresti SpeedMerchants believe that if used with the right software, an iPod could be used to record up to 500 hours of flight data.
R J Siegel, vice president of operations at LoPresti, said: “This is the perfect marriage of a consumer product and the aviation market.
“The iPod has an ideal product spec for aviation. It is light and small, with very low power requirements and a simple interface.”
Sony have released a new MP3 Walkman to compete with the iPod Video.
The Sony Walkman NW-A800 video MP3 player, is less than 1Cm thick and includes a 2 inch screen and 30 hours battery life. While the player plays MPEG 4 videos which can be uploaded by a simple drag and drop function.
The NW-A800 will come in several colours including Black, Blue, Pink and White, and available in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB versions.
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