Several of the world‚Äôs leading Internet and media companies today announced their joint support for a set of copyright guidelines for user-generated content designed to protect the intellectual property of content owners. According to the companies, the principles offer a comprehensive set of guidelines to help user-generated content (UGC) services and content creators work together […]

Viacom has unveiled a new site for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart that’s designed to offer an alternative to YouTube and other video sharing sites. Viacom is also demonstrating that it’s figured out how to compete with YouTube: give people what they want. The new site offers 13,000 high-quality clips, from episodes dating back […]

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) today sent another new wave of 411 threatening letters to 19 universities nationwide. The RIAA sent letters to these schools schools: Drexel University (17 letters) Indiana University (23) Northern Illinois University (25) Occidental College (19) State University of New York at Morrisville (18) Texas Christian University (20) Tufts […]

Roland has updated the Edirol R-09 WAVE/MP3 Recorder to be compatible with 8-GB SD High Capacity (SDHC) cards. With the update, the R-09 now also offers manual file splitting‚Äîactivated by a single button push while the R-09 is in RECORD mode. “We are always looking for ways to increase the functionality and capability of our […]

Research by Scouta, a company that offers a podcast recommendation application for iTunes, suggests that tracking podcast downloads is far from accurate as a measure of a show’s success. According to Scouta’s Richard Giles, “Only 10% of downloaded podcasts are consumed to any degree, and only 50% of those are consumed over 50%.” Scouta’s numbers […]

Sprint and HTC Corp. today announced their response to the iPhone, the Touch by HTC, a touch-screen wireless phone integrating Windows Mobile 6 with advanced entertainment features. The Touch features integrated TouchFLO technology, developed by HTC, leveraging smooth navigation through menus with a finger swipe. In addition, the TouchFLO cube brings a 3D cube interface […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs today announced that native third-party apps will soon be coming to the iPhone and the iPod touch. Here’s the text of his announcement: “Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers‚Äô hands in February. We are […]

Hayden Black, creator of the wry video podcast “Goodnight Burbank,” has launched a new video podcast that is completely different and even more irreverent. “Abigail’s X-Rated Teen Diary is about a 13 year old girl’s videoblog and her unique take on life,”¬† explains Hayden, “school, friends, parents and living with Bloomberger’s Disease. That’s a genetic […]

Apple today announced that it has lowered the price of its iTunes Plus tracks to 99 cents, effectively killing the idea that DRM-free tracks are worth paying a premium for. Other online vendors, including Amazon and Wal-Mart, already offer DRM-free tracks at 99 cents or less. Apple introduced the iTunes Plus option just six months […]

rollmio is launching a new video and blog promotion system designed to help marketers take advantage of consumer-generated advertising and consumer-generated media. Anyone can participate by registering at the site, and then either submitting videos or embedding videos published by others in blogs and Web pages. When a marketer wants to launch a rollmio campaign, […]