154278 Resource 81698 49412 49412 1167318176926 1169908067696 Controlled IPod Capabilities Cross Over Into the Auto Industry

Apple's Christmas rush on iTunes set to blossom in the New Year

Seems the iPod was one of the most popular holiday gifts this year.  iTunes was been overwhelmed by the rush to download items from their site. Auto manufacturers have seen the light - BMW recently rolled out a built-in iPod dock in many of its vehicles, and various other brands like GM and Ford are being equipped to suit the needs of the Apple generation, <a title="ipod and bmw" href="http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/jun/21bmw.html" target="_blank">USA Today reports.</a> If you're not podcasting, it should be on your list of to-dos for 2007.  We're no longer tied to our computers - we can get our info where and when we want it - on portable devices like PDA's, cell phones and iPods."Beware the marketer who doesn't remember this and doesn't format blog posts, etc. to be read on a cell phone or Treo!" says Debbie Weil in a look forward to 2007 from <a href="http://www.newcommreview.com/?p=620">Society for New Communication Research</a> members.  "If you're not including podcasts, embedded video and cool images with your blog, then you're soooo 2005."   10 application/xml false bmw ipod podcast podcasting Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 sally false true false false true 177676 false false true false false false true 81698 blog blogsite/Falkow/web