Verizon Wireless today announced that it will provide customers the option to use, on its nationwide wireless network, wireless devices, software and applications not offered by the company. Verizon plans to have this new choice available to customers throughout the country by the end of 2008. “This is a transformation point in the 20-year history [...]

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Corporate Vice President J Allard, above, yesterday unveiled the next generation of Zune portable media players, software and online store. Gates and Allard also introduced Zune Social, a beta online community Web site. The new Zunes feature a squarish button, better wireless features and even limited podcast support. To top [...]

Verizon Wireless is suing the Federal Communications Commission, asking a federal court to overturn open-access rules that the FCC is imposing on the winner a wireless airwave auction set for this winter. The FCC’s¬†auction rules specifiy that: You should be free to download and use any software applications or content they desire; and You should [...]

Apple and Starbucks today announced a partnership that lets customers wirelessly browse, search for, preview, buy and download music from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store at Starbucks onto their iPod touch, iPhone or PC or Mac running iTunes while at a participating location. When you go to a participating Starbucks, your Apple device should automatically [...]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs today announced Apple’s new lineup of iPods at an event at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Here are the highlights: The iPod shuffle appears to be on life-support. It got new colors. The iPod nano got a bigger screen, video capabilities and an interface update. Big iPods are now iPod classics, getting [...]

New company Bexy Corporation today announced its iMirror Wireless Remote Control Docking Station for iPod that remotely displays content data while it controls and plays music and video connected to entertainment systems. The iMirror is designed to put your iPod at the center if a music and video home entertainment system. With the iMirror’s wireless [...]

If you’ve been wondering about the future of wireless devices like the iPhone in the US, Google just dropped a big hint. Google announced today that, should the Federal Communications Commission adopt a framework requiring greater competition and consumer choice, the company intends to commit a minimum of $4.6 billion to bidding in the upcoming [...]

Massachusetts (USA)-based Revolabs, Inc., a maker of wireless audio equipment, has introduced its new xTag Microphone System. Revolabs is promoting the microphone system for use with a wide variety of applications, including VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), podcasting, voice recognition, web conferencing, panel discussions and lectures, and many more desktop applications. The manufacturer touts the [...]

iLounge is reporting that Microsoft will be releasing a new Zune on Monday: We’re hearing that Microsoft’s holding an event in Redmond on Monday to preview/announce a new Zune Рmost likely the flash-based one the company’s been hinting at for a while. No other details yet; if there’s something worth telling you about on [...]

Apple plans to launch new iPods featuring Wi-Fi in the second half of 2007, according to information from suppliers. Universal Scientific Industrial (USI) will produce the Wi-Fi modules and Foxconn will perform as the OEM system assembler.USI will begin shipments later in April, while Foxconn may do so in the third quarter, the sources pointed [...]