The iPod is losing its grip in Japan. Last week, for the first time in four years, the iPod was not the #1 selling music player in Japan. Instead it was Sony’s Walkman digital player. Sony’s music players increased to a 43 percent share, while Apple was at 42.1 percent share. Apple held its lead in Japan since January of 2005. Read more…

This September, we’ll see the latest evolution in the Apple iPod line. It’s being rumored that the iPod Touch and Nano will both offer cameras in the upcoming versions. The entire week we’ll dedicate a post to the evolution of Apple products and while we wait for the iPod rumors to turn into reality, let’s take a look back at the iPod, and how it evolved into the sexiest and the best music player in the world.

Check out the full evolution of the iPod here!

Microsoft Zune HD has hit the net with a bunch of early reviews. Some of the prominent online tech sites have gotten a chance to play with the device and they’ve written a few things about the device. Most of the reviews are positive and think the Microsoft Zune HD has a chance to compete with Apple’s iPod Touch.

Peter Ha, from CrunchGear, says the Mirosoft Zune is a wonderful device but doesn’t do anything special when comparing it to Apple’s iPod Touch. He also points out that he didn’t get a chance to play with the latest firmware, so some of the features weren’t as sleek or intuitive.

Check out the whole story, here!

With the recent rumors of a new tablet coming soon from Apple, we were salivating at the thought of what the tablet could possibly look like (if it looks like the picture above from ZDnet, then I’m all for it). Before Apple releases the tablet to the public, here’s a few things the Apple Tablet should offer.

Check out the 5 Things We Want The Apple Tablet to Offer, here!

Financial Times is hopping on the Apple rumor bandwagon. They’re reporting that Apple will be launching an internet tablet in September. FT is also saying Apple is partnering with music giants to provide videos and liner notes bundled with the new device. Of course that wasn’t enough, Apple is apparently going to be targeting both Amazon and Barnes & Noble, for a share of the eBook and eBook reader market.

Check out the whole story here!

UPDATE: Um, nevermind – Apple just removed the app from their US iTunes store. Oh, well, it was good while it lasted! (P.S. Does anyone have more pictures of this girl? Hot damn!)

Despite the fact that you’ve been looking at porn on your iPhone for years, Apple has now approved the first app to be sold in iTunes that contains nudity!

Called Hottest Girls (iTunes download) the $2 app features more than 2,200 pictures of super-smokin’ girls, like Lucy Pinder, Megan Fox and Bree Olson, in everything from skimpy outfits to, well, nothing at all.

The change in Apple’s policy toward adult content – which previously wouldn’t even allow an ebook reader app because it could be used to access the Kama Sutra – comes with the 3.0 software upgrade, which now allows for age verification. (And by “age verification,” I mean that it asks if you’re older than 17 before allowing you to download the app.)

Photos are organized into categories, Popular, Asian, Blonde, Brunette and Swimsuit. And users are given the option to rate the photos either “Bad” or “Good,” which will help determine which pics make the cut on the next round of updates.

Not only does the app give you tons of hot pics in one place, it allows you to download them to your photo to look at whenever you want, and use for backgrounds, caller ID pictures or whatever else you want. (more…)

With the iPhone 3.0 update due out Wednesday, iPhone 3GS out Friday and Father’s Day on Sunday, iPhone-related gifts are sure to be the hot seller. But since you probably can’t afford (or are just to cheap) to spend hundreds of dollars on your dad’s present this year, we’ve put together a list of the 14 iPhone apps to give your dad for Father’s Day that he will definitely use (and maybe even thank you for.) (more…)

Apple’s 2009 WWDC conference kicks off today, with a ton of rumored goodies expected to be announced in the next couple of hours. So whether you’re waiting to find out when you can download the new iPhone 3.0 software, what the newest iPhone looks like or just wanting to see if the zombie-like Steve Jobs makes it for the event, our friends at Gizmodo are live-blogging the whole thing with up-to-the-second updates.

Check out Gizmodo’s WWDC 2009 live coverage, here!

If you have an iPhone, chances are good that you’re anxiously awaiting the release of the 3.0 software, which isn’t scheduled to come out until around F’ing June! But with a little bit of finagaling and a few app downloads, you can have a ton of the 3.0 features, like cut, copy and paste, turn-by-turn GPS directions, landscape keyboard and Bluetooth file transfers, right freakin’ now. Sure, it’s not going to be exactly the same, but if you can’t wait a couple of months for this thing to drop, then this is your answer.

Head over to Gizmodo for the full story!

As if you needed another reason to drink, Foursquare iPhone application developers have created an iPhone app, which lets your friends know at which watering hole you’re downing some cold ones, and then awards you points for every additional bar you go to.

No only that, but if you try a new place, you get more points. If you’re the first to try a bar, again – more points! You can work your way all the way up to drinking trophies, which we’re guessing is somewhere around step six on your way to alcoholism… [via Gizmodo]