From the We Can Hardly Wait Department: Sling Media is announcing a mobile player for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. The mobile app would allow iPhone (or iPod Touch) users to watch television content on their mobile devices. The company says, “We’ve been working hard to bring the SlingPlayer Mobile experience to the iPhone [...]

Abilene Christian University announced this week that they would outfit all incoming freshmen with their own iPod Touch or iPhone, to enable the students to receive homework alerts, answer in-class quizzes, and use about a dozen other web applications the university has developed for the devices. ACU’s plans for have attracted the attention of executives [...]

A new service from WCities lets you automatically put city guides on your iPod. PodCityGuides offers over 300 City Guides worldwide that can be downloaded and synced to your iPod. The guides feature information about hotels, restaurants, nightclubs, movies, local events, concerts, the weather and news. The service offers a free application for Windows that [...]

GetData Software has introduced Recover My iPod, an¬†application designed to recover iPod music and video files that you don’t have backups for. The program works on all iPod models and can recover a range of files, even after the Reset or Restore buttons have been activated at the wrong time. Features: Recover music, video and [...]

Potion Factory has released a beta release of Tangerine, an application designed to create playlists based on the BPM and beat intensity of the songs in your iTunes library. “We came up with the idea after I noticed that I was spending a good 30 minutes to come up with about 30 tracks for working [...]

Coolgorilla has introduced its first iPod Translator, a German guide. The Translator has a user-friendly menu system to provide access of over 750 MP3s of German words and phrases. You simply select the phrase you require in English and play the German translation. “We are proud to be partnering with internet legends lastminute.com who have [...]

Rough Guides has introduced a new free service for iPod users, PodScrolls. PodScrolls are iPod formatted mini travel-guides, formatted for iPods. Rough Guide has started with guides to eating and drinking for ten of the world’s great cities, featuring reviews from their Direction guidebook series. PodScrolls are basically a series of images, distributed as a [...]

A new service, iPod Directions, lets iPod users put maps and directions on their iPods. The site, described as a “directions saving tool,” exports online driving directions from Yahoo! Maps and imports them to your iPod.