Podcast¬†hosting provider¬†Wizzard Software¬†announced today a partnership with Nielsen//NetRatings to offer certified download data. According to Wizzard, certified download numbers will bring “a new level of accountability to podcast ad sales.” “Our adoption of the Nielsen//NetRatings solution….will elevate our participating publishers‚Äô podcasts to an entirely new level of consideration by advertisers and agencies as a viable, […]

Apple and O2 announced today that the iPhone – aka the “Jesus phone” – will debut in the UK November 9th. O2 will be the exclusive UK carrier for the iPhone. Unique to the UK, iPhone users will have free access to the UK‚Äôs largest single public Wi-Fi network, covering over 7,500 cafes, restaurants, airport […]

Troubled free music site SpiralFrog made its debut today, after months of delays and management changes. The site, which lets visitors download music and videos free of charge, hopes to find success with a business model based on offering DRM’d music to users via an ad-supported site. “We believe it will be a very powerful […]

Here‚Äôs a roundup of portable media news for Sept. 17th: EMusic offering MP3 audiobooks – eMusic is offering more than a thousand books for download, with many of them cheaper than on iTunes. For example, ‚ÄúThe Audacity of Hope,‚Äù read by author Barack Obama, will cost $9.99 on eMusic compared with $18.95 on iTunes. This […]

¬† The popular podcasting tool The Levelator has been updated and has a new home¬†at The Conversations Network. The Levelator is a free, multi-platform tool that automatically optimizes the levels within audiofiles to even out the volumes of multiple speakers and to adjust the overall volume to a consistent standard. The changes in the latest […]

Here’s a roundup of portable media news for Saturday, Sept. 15th: TorrentFreak has an expos√© on Media Defender, publishing internal emails that appear to show how the company created a website and leaked copyrighted content to entrap people into infringement. According to TorrentFreak, “The sole purpose of the site is to trap people into uploading […]

Liz Gannes over at NewTeeVee reports that SonicMountain, the company that recently acquired the once-hyped podcasting startup Odeo, has purchased FireAnt, a stagnating Internet video startup. FireAnt is a desktop media player and RSS aggregator for Windows and Mac. With an integrated guide to Internet TV, the FireAnt player lets users subscribe to, download, and […]

Podcast advertising firm Kiptronic has¬†announced that Bill Loewenthal has joined the company as President and Chief Executive Officer. He will also join Kiptronic’s Board of Directors. Kiptronic provides an ad insertion and campaign management technology platform as a service to leading rich media publishers. The company allows rich media content producers to dynamically schedule, insert […]

Verizon Wireless is suing the Federal Communications Commission, asking a federal court to overturn open-access rules that the FCC is imposing on the winner a wireless airwave auction set for this winter. The FCC’s¬†auction rules specifiy that: You should be free to download and use any software applications or content they desire; and You should […]

Us Internet users watch an average of three hours¬†of¬†online video per month, according to research firm comScore’s Video Metrix report for July 2007. Google Sites topped the July rankings with both the most unique video viewers and most videos viewed. Google Dominates Online Video July saw Americans view more than 9 billion videos online, with […]