With all the big news of iPad 2 yesterday it was easy to overlook that Apple also updated iTunes and iOS with some features that our readers will find exciting. It turns out that iTunes now has a Home Sharing feature that allows iOS 4.3 running device owners to tap their computer's iTunes library over [...]

It's a great day for Apple fans. Steve Jobs just unveiled the refreshed iPad, or iPad 2 as it's known. The device, which will be available on March 11th, brings many hardware improvements like a faster dual-core 1Ghz processor, 9x better graphics, rear and front-facing cameras, and a thinner (from 13.4mm to 8.8mm), slightly lighter [...]

Thanks to Charbax at ARMdevices.net we finally know why ARCHOS decided to introduce the ARNOVA brand — our first ARNOVA sighting was the ARNOVA Web Radio & TV. It turns out ARNOVA is ARCHOS' budget line of devices with slightly lesser specs than ARCHOS' already competitively priced product line, which consists primarily of Android-based tablets. [...]

It's official. DirecTV has just unleashed their iPad DIRECTV experience controller app [iTunes]. Feature highlights include: customizable remote, 14-day EPG complete with show metadata, DVR programming / playlist, quick access to channel favorites and other customizable home screen modules, on-demand movie listings, and a pretty nifty sports scores and schedule pane that you can set [...]

Wow, apparently Google wants to turn Android into the ultimate entrainment platform — beyond supporting smartphone and tablet apps. The company has begun flipping the switch on some of its server configured Android Marketplace URLs for books (now live), movies, and music which were discovered last week. So what does this all mean? Google wants [...]

Michael Robertson, the founder and former CEO of MP3.com, announced yesterday at the Launch Conference that his next project will be a DVR-like service for Internet Radio called DAR.fm, which stands for Digital Audio Recorder. According to Robertson, the service provides a searchable list of talk and music stations that one selects to record (now [...]

As hard as the blogosphere tried to give Motorola a hard time for pricing the 4G LTE Motorola XOOM at $799 (unsubsidized), we now know officially that the Android Honeycomb, dual-core Tegra 2 toting Motorola XOOM will be available through Verizion for $599.99 with a 2-year contract starting February 24th. A quick check of how much [...]

Wow, I can't believe this news didn't get more play. Earlier this month Business Insider reported that Apple has decided to give Netflix a pass on collecting its 30% cut from in-app subscriptions on iOS devices like the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. It's really remarkable and completely hypocritical, in my humble opinion. While Apple [...]