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Dell’s DJ Ditty music player was a celebrated catastrophe when it made its debut five years ago.

Our friends at Dell have probably learned a few lessons from the ill-fated DJ Ditty and are apparently prepared to once again take on Apple’s iPod.

Look for a new digital music player from Dell. It has been testing a device which uses Wi-fi to connect with a number of online music services, and can be tehered to a PC.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

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Home servers aren’t in many homes right now. But that’s about to change. More and more of us want/need to be living living in the terabyte world.

Digital media is moving off desk tops, note books and their external drives onto servers which work as a hub for entertainment content.

Why isn’t the external drive doing the job of the central hub?

When hard drives crash, and they’re more likely to crash on desktops than on servers. Syncing is also often tough.

And storage. Our appetites are growing. By 2010, the average user will have two terabytes of content. Video fuels our thirst.

Look for a growing number of home server options to be rolling out. And look for our interest in hooking up a central hub to really take off when devices such as LCDs, audio systems, and set-top boxes bake in server-like functionality.

But things are happening already.

Microsoft launched Windows Home Server Software seven months ago.

Hewlett-Packard is looking for early adopters to use its Media-Smart servers.

The European household seems to be gravitating toward servers more quickly than the American household. Fujitsu Siemens and La Cie are leading the way.

Seagate’s Mirra and Apple’s Time Capsule are available in the U.S.

The Sony HES-V1000 offers 500 GB of storage with 200-disc Blu-ray DVD changer; it is compatible with PlayStation3 and Sony TVs with the XrossMediaBar. This is an onscreen menu that offers access to content from home networked devices.

On the smaller side of home servers, Harman Kardon’s DMC 100 Digital Media Center delivers 250 GB of storage and handles four streams of music.

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A Wi-Fi enabled iPod before the snow flies… that’s the prediction from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster.

“We expect Apple to release new Wi-Fi enabled, touchscreen iPods in the sub-$200 range by September. In fact, we believe the concept of the iPod will change in the next 12-18 months from a standalone music player to a mobile Internet device that fits in your pocket.”

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Bubble Bash has debuted at iTunes.

Bubble Bash is compatible with third generation iPod nanos and iPod classics and fifth-generation video iPods.

Bubble Bash is a color-matching game apparently inspired by “Bust-a-Move” where players throw bubbles into the sky and try and get a color match as the clock ticks.

By the way, Podmaxx is a great tool for unlocking many of the restrictions on your iPod… learn how it will help you copy music from any iPod to your PC, and more.

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In the endless stream of “What’s next from Apple?” comes the concept of a personalized podcast.

The podcast may evolve from content that the user is unable to edit to content that can be repackaged to address the interests of the user.

Slash Lane writes about this “PodMap” concept in The Apple Insider.

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