The iPod Wars are over, and if anybody should know, it’s SanDisk CEO Eli Harari.
The founder and CEO of SanDisk admits what just about everyone else has known for a long time: the iPod wars are over, and Apple won.
“You can’t out-iPod the iPod,” says Harari.
Harari’s facing the facts. In April, Piper Jaffrey reported that [...]

From the Apple Support website, some hair-raising news (nyuk nyuk nyuk): “It’s possible to receive a small and quick electrical (static) shock from your earbuds while listening to iPod or iPhone.”
Yikes.
Turns out, when the air is very dry or very windy — or if you are excercising with your player in your pocket — using [...]

The National Association Of Broadcasters has asked Apple to change the design of iPods to incorporate an FM receiver.

Are broadcasters grabbing at straws to protect an industry that no longer has a monopoly on your ears?

Piper Jaffray reports a rather surprising fact: there’s zero interest among teens for portable media players other than the iPod.
“Apple’s dominance in the PMP market remains largely unchecked, and it is clear to us that Apple has captured the ‘cool factor’ among high school students across America,” said Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster.
Credit has to go [...]

Apple today introduced an updated iPod shuffle, the world’s smallest music player at nearly half of the size of the previous model, and the first music player that talks to you.
The new VoiceOver feature lets the iPod shuffle speak your song titles, artists and playlist names. iPod shuffle can even tell you status information, such [...]

Startup company doubleTwist today launched a public beta of a new universal media application for the Mac that’s like iTunes for everything.
doubleTwist’s goal for the product is to be ”a single, streamlined interface that connects to any device, media source or network.” In other words, they want to make moving your media around, from your computer, [...]

Audioengine has introduced a high-end wireless adapter for iPods and iPhones, the Audioengine W2. 
The AW2 uses uncompressed CD-quality transmission technology with no network setup, software, or computer required. The system lets you wirelessly send you music, at up to CD-quality, to a hi-fi system.
The Audioengine W2 (AW2) Premium Wireless Adapter for iPod is priced at US $169.
AW2 [...]

Today there were a lot of big tech stories that, on the surface, seem unrelated:

Verizon is rolling out a Blackberry Storm OS update;
S&P Cuts Motorola’s rating to junk;
AT&T hopes to have their own uber-phone OS;
Dell is charging a $150 premium for Windows XP;
The Kindle may be getting pwned by the Sony Reader, which is getting [...]

Turns out the Zunegate hype about Obama being a Zune fan may have been unwarranted.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Obama’s officially an iPod fan:
Yesterday the Philadelphia City Paper ignited a controversy over the question, with a blog entry that included the innocuous detail that the President-elect was working out while listening to the Microsoft [...]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that Apple appears to be using the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) to limit what iPod owners can do with their portable media players:
At the heart of this is the iTunesDB file, the index that the iPod operating system uses to keep track of what playable media is on the [...]