MobileMe iDisk now available on iPhone and iPod

After more than a month of waiting, Apple has finally brought its MobileMe iDisk application to iPod and iPhone users. Originally announced during Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference in early July, the free iDisk app offers users of Apple's MobileMe service a way to access files they, or their MobileMe contacts have stored on Apple's servers.

Some of the nicer features include being able to view and send any native file types. This includes music, so if you've got a bunch of tracks stored on iDisk, you can stream them from the app. Movies work as well, although they have to be formatted to play on an iPod or iPhone.
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Shure's first headphone range aimed at the pros

Type "shure headphones" into Google and you're bound to get links to sites claiming that Shure is debuting its first attempt at making full-sized headphones. Not quite true, actually.

At today's Shure channel gathering held in Singapore, the audio electronics maker revealed some of its history in making headphones. Turns out its former headphone was the Clear-Teq Model HP-2S, introduced after the Type HS-33/HS-38 headset which was made during WWII.



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It's official: Creative Zii Egg runs on Android

We knew Creative was up to something when that Zii Egg FCC application flew past us earlier this month, but we had no idea it would be this awesome, or this confusing. Turns out the Zii Egg (what an unfortunate name) is a multitouch, HD video-capable, dual camera (front and back) rival to the iPhone and iPod touch, running on Google's Android OS (see all the official specs over at Zii.net).

You can grab a 32GB model now for US$399, but don't expect it to be fully baked. Creative is announcing this as a "developer edition" in the hopes that the Android community will pick up the platform and run with it. I guess it takes a village to beat an iPhone.
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Clipper MP3 player, four years too late?

Mobile phones and Netbooks may be nibbling away at the market for portable media players, but there will always be a demand for dirt-cheap, barebones MP3 players. Our grandchildren could be living in a post-apocalyptic waterworld or an off-planet Martian colony--but the cheap MP3 player will endure like some kind of technological cockroach.

It seems fitting, then, that the latest budget MP3 player from Archos bears a resemblance to our favorite end times-surviving insect. The Archos Clipper is your basic clip-on MP3 player with 2GB of storage, priced at around US$30. There's no screen, no frills, no fancy colors--nothing to save you from Decepticons or Terminators.

In all fairness to Archos, the company has been on the sidelines of the MP3 player game for a few years now, focusing its efforts on the emerging Netbook and tablet PC markets. Unlike the Clipper, the company's upcoming Archos 9 media tablet is one of the more drool-inspiring products I've seen all year. I guess you've got to put your money where your priorities are.

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AVG temporarily blocked iTunes, labeling it malware

AVG's free antivirus product temporarily blocked users from getting to iTunes late last week, detecting it as a Trojan, the company said on Monday.

For about 5 hours on Friday starting around 4pm PDT (9am GMT), AVG users couldn't access iTunes because of the false alarm.

"AVG discovered the false alarm in the virus signature engine relating to some localization components of iTunes (so not iTunes as a virus but rather some localization components of iTunes) and it was fixed within 5 hours", AVG spokesperson Siobhan MacDermott said in a statement. "AVG would like to apologize for any inconvenience to our users/customers".
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