Heavyweight podcast hosting provider Wizzard Software has announced changes to the Company‚Äôs Board of Directors, as part of a bid to get listed on the American Stock Exchange. The Board accepted the resignations of Armen Geronian and Gordon Berry, effective October 3, 2007. Geronian and Berry resigned for the sole purpose of facilitating the creation […]

Microsoft has announced updates to its line of Zune portable media players. While there is a lot of good news in Microsoft’s announcement, including improved wireless features and podcasting support, the Zune platform still lags way behind Apple’s iTunes/iPod platform. Here are five reasons iPods still beat Zunes: Zunes are still boring. With the exception […]

The portable audio recorder market is heating up. Sony’s latest entry into the category is the PCM-D50 Linear PCM Recorder. The PCM-D50 is a 96 kHz/24-bit recorder fitted with two-position (X-Y or Wide) stereo microphones, 4 GB of internal flash memory and a Memory Stick Pro-HG Duo slot (for additional storage). The body of the […]

Virgin America today announced that it has entered into an exclusive partnership with Boing Boing TV to deliver inflight daily video reports. The show available on-demand on Virgin America through the airline’s Red in flight Entertainment system on all flights beginning in November.   “By offering Boing Boing TV’s unique brand of content to Virgin […]

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) today released the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report (pdf) covering the second quarter and the first six months of 2007. Internet advertising revenues (U.S.) for the first six months of 2007 were nearly $10 billion, setting a new record and representing a nearly 27 percent increase over […]

Sony has introduced its second-generation Reader Digital Book, which will go on sale for $300 later this month at Borders stores and from Sony’s website. It supports eBooks, PDFs and Word files, and even MP3s. The PRS-505 will be available in silver and dark blue, can hold up to 160 typical e-books, and has expansion […]

The co-editors at Boing Boing and Federated Media Publishing have launched Boing Boing TV, a video version of the popular blog. ‚ÄúBoing Boing fans can expect the same curious and irreverent exploration of the world they find on the blog, but now through video,‚Äù said Xeni Jardin, above, co-founder of Boing Boing and co-host of […]

The University of California, Berkeley, announced today that it is making entire course lectures and special events available, free of charge, on YouTube. UC Berkeley is the first university to make videos of full courses available through YouTube. Visitors to the site can view more than 300 hours of videotaped courses and events. Topics range […]

Microsoft has updated its line of Zune portable media players. While they are still no iPod-killers, they offer enough new features that it’s time to reconsider the Zune platform. Here are five reasons to take a second look at the Zune: The Zune’s WiFi features are starting to get useful. Zune devices can now automatically […]

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Corporate Vice President J Allard, above, yesterday unveiled the next generation of Zune portable media players, software and online store. Gates and Allard also introduced Zune Social, a beta online community Web site. The new Zunes feature a squarish button, better wireless features and even limited podcast support. To top […]