by Rob Cottingham | Jan 7, 2011 | Culture, Arts and Popcorn, Technology
The past decade has been a boon for music lovers (once you get past the whole most-digital-music-sucks thing). The iPod turns 10 years old this October; as you’ll no doubt recall from much of the commentary at the time, it was Apple’s biggest mistake and... by Rob Cottingham | Feb 28, 2008 | Technology
Okay, listen: we can be friends and all, but there is a barrier between us, a profound and irreconcilable difference, a gulf that will never truly be bridged. Specifically, I’m starting to think I have weird little mutant ear canals. I’ve never been able... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 14, 2005 | Technology
A few days ago, to much oohing and aaahing, Steve Jobs released the first-ever video-playing iPod. Or did he? It turns out the open-source community may have beaten him to it. The fine folks who are hard at work porting Linux to the iPod managed to run video on an... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 12, 2005 | Technology
Yeah, there was a lot of sexy stuff in Apple’s announcement today: new thinner video iPods, iMacs with remote controls and built-in video cameras, new video features in iTunes. But the story that got buried was the fact that Apple also released a USB dial-up... by Rob Cottingham | Jul 28, 2005 | Culture, Arts and Popcorn, Media Mix, Politics, Technology
From the Canadian Press, Top court refuses to hear appeal on MP3 players The fight over a levy on iPods and other digital music players ended today when the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear any further arguments on the matter. That means there will be no levy...