SnowCover Pro lets you use gestures to control music playback directly on your iPhone, iPod touch lockscreen.

With SnowCover you can control your music directly on your lockscreen. Use simple gestures like swiping or doubletap to control volume and playback. SnowCover is as full featured as SwipeControls.

It also displays your current album cover in a very nice and themeable way on your lockscreen. And as an added feature, you can even set the time it takes for your lockscreen to dim, so that you have enough time to see your cover and control your music.
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If you thought the automakers would be leaving CES to the TV and PMP makers, Ford would like to have a word with you. A few words, actually. Aside from announcing that in-car WiFi will be available next year, the iconic blue oval is today calling itself the first car manufacturer to offer factory-installed HD Radio with iTunes tagging capabilities. Slated to become available on select 2011 Ford models sometime next year, the implementation will enable listeners of HD Radio to “tag” songs they like via a single button press; from there, the song information will be logged within the radio’s memory, and up to 100 tags on Sync can be stored until an iPod is connected to suck them down. Once that data hits the iPod, users can Read the full story

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Not that we haven’t seen an elongated iPod sound system before, but we’ve definitely yet to see one as totally bodacious as this. JVC has just slung out its XS-SR3 iPod speaker dock, which — like B&W’sZeppelin Mini — can hold your iPhone / iPod vertically or horizontally. JVC claims this little trick better enables users to view videos in widescreen form, while the 5-watts of power are sure to blow your skin back when cranked to 11. Other specs include a bundled remote and two audio inputs Read the full story

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Last week we learned that Apple had acquired music streaming service Lala. Now information is out saying how much they paid for it, and it was no small sum, to be sure. According to multiple sources, Apple paid no less than $80 million for their acquisition of Lala. The sum is less than half of what investors valued the company at in 2008, yet it’s more than the $35 million Lala brought in during their existence.

Interestingly, Warner Music Group invested $20 million into Lala, but wrote down $11 million in March, so it’s unknown if they will regain their $20 million or just the amount after the write-down.

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The relationship between cellphones and music has almost always been a quirky one, producing bouts ofthe surreal punctuated by an occasional flourish of the sublime. Latest to join the melodic fray are Georg Essl from the University of Michigan and his “mobile phone ensemble.” Each of the participating students has designed a noise-making app for his or her iPhone, which is used in conjunction with the built-in accelerometer and touchscreen to make (hopefully beautiful) music. Though we may consider this a gimmick for now, Professor Essl is most enthusiastic about the future prospects of utilizing smartphones to make music with legitimate aspirations. The debut performance of this newfangled orchestra is on December 9, or you can check out a preview in the video after the break.
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Bose unleashed its giant iPod dock, the SoundDock 10, back in August — all 18 pounds of it. Well, iLounge has gotten their hands on one of these $600 beasts, and they’ve given it a nice once over. The SoundDock 10 has a nice solid build, and they grade the overall sound quality as decent… which probably isn’t comforting to hear, considering the price, but they do say that it certainly outperforms its cheaper peers. They note the inclusion of extra ports — an unusual and welcomed addition to Read the full story

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