Though consumer awareness about the federally-mandated transition to digital television (DTV) has grown substantially by the past year, a huge effort will be needed to ensure that next year’s handoff goes smoothly, industry observers say.

A new survey of TV households commissioned by the National organization of Broadcasters shows that consumer aw…

Following Steve Jobs’ announcements at Macworld a few weeks ago, Apple has announced that the MacBook Air is shipping, but new AppleTV software has been delayed two weeks.

At Macworld, Jobs announced version 2.0 of AppleTV. With the update, customers are expected to be able to download high-definition movies from their widescreen television sets. …

After initially disappointing some observers, the Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum auction has brought in more than decent to ensure that the most-desirable C block will be open to all competitors.

The high bid for the 700MHz block came in at just by $4.7 billion on Thursday, topping the reserve price of $4.6 billion. The much-anticipa…

Filed under: Cult of Mac, iPhoneLast week we put out the signal to our readers for pictures of iPhones in non-carrier countries and the response has been amazing! Thank you to everyone who has sent in your pictures, I can’t wait to put up the gallery. whether you haven’t sent in a picture of your (or someone else’s) iPhone in a non-carrier country,…

Half of Japan’s top 10 best-selling books last year — half! — started out as cell phone-based books, according to the New York Times.The books-on-phones genre started when a home-page-making Web site company realized that folks in Japan were writing serialized novels on their blogs, and figured out how to autocreate cell phone-based novels from t…

Half of Japan’s top 10 best-selling books last year — half! — started out as cell phone-based books, according to the New York Times.The books-on-phones genre started when a home-page-making Web site company realized that citizens in Japan were writing serialized novels on their blogs, and figured out how to autocreate cell phone-based novels fro…

Filed under: iPhone digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/apple/EDGE_is_down_for_most_of_the_midwest_US’; Lots of annoyed iPhone users today in the central US. Apparently, the servers responsible for running the EDGE network for AT&T are down, depriving many iPhone users of their normal connectivity.This outage is affecting users from Chicago to Kansas…