Apple telegraphs iPods; fans see Beatles, tablets

Once again, it's time to peer into Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs' cup and try to read the tea leaves.

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Apple unveils new iPods but shares slip

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off a revamped line of iPods on Tuesday and trumpeted a truce with NBC Universal that means the TV network will begin selling programs again on iTunes.

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Did IPods Cause a Crime Wave?

It's easy to see why iPods would be alluring targets for criminals: The music players are valuable and easy to resell, and people absorbed in their personal soundtracks can be vulnerably oblivious to their surroundings.

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Apple Cuts IPhone Price, Angers Some

Apple Inc.'s price cut of its iPhone and new lineup of iPod players are expected to ring in healthy holiday sales, but Wall Street investors accustomed to Apple's meaty profit margins appear a bit disappointed.

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Lightning Strikes Reported by iPod Users

Listen to an iPod during a storm and you may get more than electrifying tunes. A Canadian jogger suffered wishbone-shaped chest and neck burns, ruptured eardrums and a broken jaw when lightning traveled through his music player's wires.

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Exercise Machines to Work With IPods

Your workout at the gym isn't going to be any less painful. But the world's leading commercial provider of exercise equipment might at least help make the session on a stair-climber or treadmill more entertaining.

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Review: Apple Offers Value in New IPods

Fans of Apple Computer Inc.'s portable music players will find the new, video-capable models of the iPod and its miniature counterpart, the Nano, clearly worth the wait.

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Apple to Integrate iPod With Car Radios

In the latest boost to its dominance in portable music players, Apple Computer Inc. is teaming with General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Mazda Motor Corp. to integrate the iPod into car audio systems.

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Survey: iPods More Popular Than Beer

Move over Bud. College life isn't just about drinking beer. In a rare instance, Apple Computer Inc.'s iconic iPod music player surpassed beer drinking as the most "in" thing among undergraduate college students, according to the latest biannual market research study by Ridgewood, N.J.-based Student Monitor.

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Draft Law Clouds iPod's Future in France

Apple Computer Inc. faces a serious challenge in France as lawmakers move to sever the umbilical cord between its iPod music player and iTunes online store — threatening its lucrative hold on both markets.

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How to buy an iPod for yourself or your loved ones. In September, Apple performed the now-yearly ritual of updating its iPod lineup in anticipation of the upcoming holiday season.

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As resource-hungry China scours the world for crude oil and natural gas supplies, it has managed to corner the global market for a group of obscure metals used to make iPods, wind farms and electric cars. The mainland supplies at least 95 percent of the world's rare earths - 17  …

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We've been getting a number of tips about iTunes Connect being down for the past couple of days.

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Once again, we have taken a look at the new iPod nano to see if its new features are cool enough to keep it at the top of Apple's best seller list. And, since video is one of the nano's major new features, we compared its video quality to other pocket video cameras.

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Just days before Apple is expected to unveil its new line of iPods, multiple reports are suggesting that some of the widely anticipated camera-equipped media players could be delayed due to technical difficulties. [Updated with info from Hardmac.]

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Apple's annual iPod/iTunes product event will take place this Wednesday in San Francisco. In addition to announcing new iTunes features, Apple will almost certainly introduce an updated version of the iPod touch, and perhaps the iPod nano; rumors suggest they'll both get cameras.

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Sony Corp.'s Walkman digital music player outsold Apple Inc.'s iPod in Japan last week for the first time in more than four years, according to electronics research firm BCN Inc.

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Police are searching for the five bandits who hit the Apple Store in Marlton, New Jersey. It happened shortly after 2:00 a.m. at the Promenade Shopping Center on Route 73.

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Apple hasn't confirmed it, but Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster seems pretty certain that Steve Jobs himself will introduce a new line of iPods next week.

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The rumors were true. At an invitation-only media event in New York City this morning, Sirius XM (SIRI) debuted the first-ever radio dock for the iPhone and iPod touch.

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On August 17th, the FCC published a few documents that reveal that Sirius XM Radio Inc. are preparing to release a new product entitled the Sirius XM SkyDock.

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Apple has been granted six new patents, including an iChat filing and several submissions involving product design.

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The event will be held in San Francisco–most likely at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, where it has occurred in years past–and is expected to showcase upgrades to the iPod line and an update to iTunes that may involve some sort of social element.

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Our same source is back at it again and we have some further clarification on the iTunes 9 rumor we posted a couple days ago. We really have to take this information at face value, but again felt it was worthy enough to be published.

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PATIENTS are being lured into being tested for Chlamydia with prizes such as iPods and Wii consoles.

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Students are stealing one another's cell phones so often at Oviedo High School that the school-resource officer says kids reported thefts to her almost daily this past school year.

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If the rumors are to be believed, then cameras and the iPod are getting it on lately, because in about nine months (or whatever the gestation period is for gadgets -- you're welcome for that mental image) we'll be seeing lots of iPods with lenses in them.

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Market research firm NPD released its retail sales figures for Macs and iPods today. Analysts, bracing for a serious decline got only a small one from Mac sales and called it good news. Slightly down is the new up, apparently.

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Apple is being threatened with legal action for silencing an online forum discussing how to use iPods without the need for the iTunes website.

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iSee. iHear. iKnow. iHide iPod!

I see the school. I hear the music. I know I cannot have it. I hide it so the teachers do not see, hear, and know I hide my life in my pocket.

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What place does an iPod have on the battlefield? The devices are prized for their ability to smooth translations, make sense of cultural nuances, and even help with ballistics calculations.

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New study could lead to more efficient, environmentally friendly batteries. A computer virus won't help your laptop work — but a biological virus could.

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Songbird's developers are telling users to disable or uninstall the iPod support add-on, normally recommended and installed at first start-up, because it can erroneously delete music from your music device.

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Bill Gates's sprawling Washington state compound is, as you might expect, packed to the gills with bleeding-edge gear, from the heated floors and 20-seat home theater to the X-ray machine (for screening the mail, of course) and miles of fiber-optic cabling.

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iTunes users who want to upgrade their DRMed library to iTunes Plus can now do so on a song-by-song or album-by-album basis.

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