In a wide-ranging interview with the Washington Post, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offers his views on upcoming changes in technology and media. His outlook for the future of traditional media is bleak: In the next 10 years, the whole world of media, communications and advertising are going to be turned upside down — my opinion. […]

Earlier in the week, Elisabeth noted that Barack Obama had wrapped enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination and that he is actively using podcasting as part of his campaign strategy. Obama has run a remarkable campaign, and his campaign’s has made innovative use of social media, embracing not just podcasting, but Twitter, Flickr, MySpace, […]

Sony‘s BRAVIA Internet Video Link has taken a leap forward, bringing YouTube support, and laughing babies to Sony’s TVs The BRAVIA Internet Video Link is a small module that attaches to the back of a selection of the company’s BRAVIA LCD flat-panel television models, giving them support for Internet television. A broadband connection of at […]

ExtraLabs has updated Skype Recorder, its Windows app that can automatically record Skype calls. Skype is popular with podcasters because it lets you make free digital calls to anyone with an Internet connection. The software record into MP3/WMA/OGG/WAV formats, recording conversations in either single or dual audio tracks and even has a built-in FTP-client for […]

Hulu today added a smart feature to its embedded videos: video search: We’ve just released a new feature that lets you search for videos from Hulu players that are embedded on blogs, social networking sites and similar pages on the Web. Your search results will appear directly in the Hulu video screen, and you don’t […]

Trent Reznor today announced another free music download, Lights In The Sky – an EP that features the work of Nine Inch Nails’ touring band: I am proud to announce the final personnel lineup of nine inch nails for the foreseeable future. We’ve added, we’ve subtracted and we’ve wound up with unquestionably the strongest lineup I’ve […]

A reminder that there’s a podcast for just about anything: Flyers worried about being able to remember what they can and cannot take in and out of the UK have received aid in the form of a podcast. Downloadable from the HM Revenue & Customs website, the free audio podcast sees customs expert Mark Fuchter […]

LadyAda, creator of a variety of cool DIY projects that have been featured in Make magazine, has a new kit that lets you make your own Internet set-top box out of an Altoid tin.  Description: The YBox2 is a DIY networked set-top box. Connect it to your TV and you can design customized content to […]

Verismo Networks has announced a sort of poor-man’s Apple TV, the PoD. The $99 device uses your broadband connection to deliver Internet television to your HD TV. It can play videos from YouTube, BitTorrent and other sources, without the need for a PC. NewTeeVee got a preview of the device from Verismo CEO Prakash Bhalerao […]

The BBC has announced that it will broadcast BBC1 live to the Internet, making it the first of the BBC’s stations to be simulcast online. BBC1 will be available via bbc.co.uk, which is being relaunched. “Building on the success of the iPlayer, we want to develop bbc.co.uk to include a broad range of the BBC’s […]