CorePlayer, a favorite amongst many Windows Mobile and other mobile platform users has been ported to the iPhone and iPod touch. CorePlayer offers media management to completely avoid using iTunes. An iPhone media player other than the iPod application could open doors to downloading MP3 files on the run through Seeqpod. Downloading files through Safari is possible with the Mobile Safari Download Plugin from iPhone hacker ‘hachu’. Not sure when it will be released, but they’re working on making it …

hotels.com has introduced a customized Web application for the iPhone and iPod touch that makes it easy to research and book hotels while on the go. The hotels.com Web application has been optimized for viewing on a 3.5-inch screen and enables users to:

– View photos, descriptions and amenities for more than 75,000 properties worldwide
– Check hotel availability
– Book accommodations
– View existing hotel reservations
– Contact hotels.com customer care for assistance

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Spotigo’s WiFi hotspot directory contains more than 250.000 hotspots in over 150 countries and now is adapted for the user interface of the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Spotigo offers a comprehensive search interface with a look and feel that users are familiar with from their Apple devices. It allows them to search for free and commercial hotspots in a certain area country, town, address and / or postal code. The result is displayed in a list …

It was a late morning in the fall of 2006. Almost a year earlier, Steve Jobs had tasked about 200 of Apple’s top engineers with creating the iPhone. Yet here, in Apple’s boardroom, it was clear that the prototype was still a disaster. It wasn’t just buggy, it flat-out didn’t work. The phone dropped calls constantly, the battery stopped charging before it was full, data and applications routinely became corrupted and unusable. The list of problems seemed …

FlyTunes is a new kind of music service that is designed for today’s highly integrated and 3G capable cell phones, such as the Apple iPhone. It also works with popular music players such as the iPod family and the Microsoft Zune.

FlyTunes offers users “effortless, personalized music” that they can enjoy anytime, anywhere they go.

How is FlyTunes “better” than Sirius and XM satellite radio?
FlyTunes gives users more of …

Fulfilling consumers’ insatiable demand for an ever-increasing array of entertainment and communication options in their vehicles, Delphi Corp. offers a hub to accommodate multiple vehicle systems or consumer interfaces.

“A single USB port that serves as an interface between the vehicle’s electrical system and external consumer equipment enabling passengers to download MP3 music files from pen-drives and iPods and listen to music files stored on those devices through the vehicle’s audio system may not satisfy all passengers,” says …

iRiver GSM phone is making it debut at the CES. It features a 3-inch, 480×272 touch screen and has no keypad; you navigate by touching, flicking or swiping the screen. The icons in the Linux-based phone’s UI are similar to the iPhone’s. Other specs include4-Gbytes of flash storage, music and video players with Rhapsody music support, a two-megapixel camera with camcorder, an Adobe Flash player, GPS and mobile TV. It is undecided whether the phone will have …

The Joby Zivio™ is an elegant, high performance Bluetooth™ headset with a telescoping microphone boom. The first of its kind, the Zivio’s retractable microphone provides exceptional audio quality in environments that traditionally challenge headsets, such as high-noise public areas and moving automobiles.

Bluetooth Version: 2.0 + EDR with Hands-free profile 1.5
Talk/Standby Time: 10 hours/12.5 days (300 hours)
Charges: via USB connection
Weight: 13 grams
Length (mic retracted): 53.5 mm
Length (mic extended): 137 mm
Width: 15 mm
Depth (thickness w/o earpiece): 7.2 mm
Range (btw. …