Here I sit blogging in my hotel room at the Renaissance in Austin, Texas before a full day of search and social marketing brain dump at Pubcon South. Immediately after that is SXSWi for a few days. A few days after that it’s NYC for a PRSA thing followed by SES New York.  I speak at 15 plus e...

"Imagine your music player talking to you, telling you your song titles, artists and playlist names". So says Greg Joswiak, as Apple takes a typically unconventional approach to the problem of having a music player that's too small to have a screen displaying the track name on. The new iPod shuffle,...

If you're an iPhone user, you just looked at Apple's [AAPL] new 4GB iPod Shuffle and groaned. Announced this morning, the little stainless steel slab is beautifully minimalist, and about the size of a piece of Trident. But its control buttons are conspicuously absent--hidden in the earbud cord, in a...

OK, so it’s nothing special, but I’ve had a softspot for the iPod Shuffle for a while. The first one I got was a 1GB “original” shuffle: This was my first iPod experience (I’d had about 4 MP3 players before that), and I loved it. the size and weight were pefect, especia...

The Apple Store was down earlier, and that means a new product: it's a redesigned, fourth-generation, 4GB iPod shuffle! It's absolutely tiny, and is claimed to be the first talking iPod. It's smaller than an AA battery. Being that wee, there's no room to add a screen, so Apple has come up with the V...

Caught this news today - rumors of Apple ordering a large number of ten-inch touchscreens from the same provider of iPhone screens: Apple Orders Touch Screens for Q3 I hope its true.  I’ve realized that my iPhone has really become my preferred portable computing device.  I’ve gotten ve...

<p>In December 2004, rumors were rampant that Apple was set to release a flash-memory based iPod. (The shipping iPod lineup at the time consisted of hard-drive based iPods and iPod Minis.) A site called TheMacMind, now shuttered, ran a report claiming that not only was Apple set to rel...

After playing around with it for an hour, I’m pretty happy with the Kindle 2. I was a satisfied user of the original model, and most of the changes are for the better. So if you’re thinking about getting one — and live in the U.S. — I vote yes. The good: It’s light and ...

Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL) Wondering which sector is performing the best during the current economic crunch? The kind folks at MarketWatch provided the answer: technology. Nick Godt notes that the sector has gained strength from "investors playing an uncertain environment as both a defensive and ...

US Lawyers Demand Freedom for Cuban Five Cuba News HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 17 (acn) Representatives from the US National Lawyers Guild expressed their solidarity with the five Cuban heroes incarcerated in US jails for a decade for averting terrorist actions against Cuba, this Monday in this capital. Dean ...