What’s better than free dj software for Mac and PC that works with your iPod?
Free dj software for Mac and PC that works with your iPod that doesn’t suck - which is what you get with Beatport Sync.
Native Instruments, which makes the leading DJ software Traktor, and Beatport, an online music service for DJs, have [...]

by James Lewin
The market for handheld devices such as Palms and Pocket PCs is tanking. The worldwide handheld device market posted its fifteenth consecutive quarter of decline in shipments. According to IDC, vendors shipped 728,894 handheld devices in 3Q07, 39.3% less from the same quarter a year ago.
“The handheld device market has been under constant [...]

A new version of Expressivo text-to-speech software has been released. New with version 1.3 is integration with iTunes, making it easy to automatically translate text-to-speech and get it on your iPod.
Any text read by Expressivo is automatically added to your iTunes library as an audio file. Texts read by Expressivo can also be played on [...]

Portable video players, like Apple’s latest iPod nanos, are going mainstream, according to a report from Parks Associates. Worldwide shipments of portable video players will grow at an annualized rate of 30% over the next five years, reaching 132 million units shipped per year in 2011:

The massive adoption of portable video players, with over half [...]

Sick of listening to those 8-track tapes in your private jet?
Rockwell Collins has introduced two new iPod integration solutions for those of you with jets.
“Now passengers can make the most of their iPods and iPhones as integrated entertainment devices on board the aircraft,” said Rockwell Collins’ Tommy Dodson.
The new iPod Solo Station and the iPod [...]

Here’s a roundup of portable media news for Saturday, Sept. 15th:
TorrentFreak has an expos?© on Media Defender, publishing internal emails that appear to show how the company created a website and leaked copyrighted content to entrap people into infringement. According to TorrentFreak, “The sole purpose of the site is to trap people into uploading copyrighted [...]

The Wall Street Journal has an article today that suggests that iPods and MP3s are ruining pop music.
The idea is that the dynamic compression that has become popular to make music sound louder, combined with audio file compression, which throws away details of the music, have combined to make pop music horrible.
According to the Journal, [...]

With the recent iPod & iTunes updates, there’s been a surge in news about Apple’s portable media platform. Here are a few highlights:

Apple breaks video out with new iPods. iLounge’s Jeremy Horowitz points out that Apple has locked the TV Out feature of the iPod classic and video-capable iPod nano, preventing users from outputting iPod [...]

Apple’s introductions yesterday were largely unsurprising, but Apple managed to deliver its strongest line of iPods ever, take iTunes store into wireless territory, and solidify its entry into the smartphone market.
While the event ended the mystery of what Apple would introduce, it raised new questions:

Why is Apple stiffing first-adopting iPhone owners? Apple dropped prices on the iPhone [...]

Apple today unveiled the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, giving users the ability to browse, search, preview, purchase and download songs and albums from the iTunes Music Store over a Wi-Fi network directly onto their iPod touch or iPhone.
While more useful Wi-Fi features were a key part of what we expected Apple to introduce today, the [...]