SplashCast has announced a new partnership with Columbia Records and three new features designed to make the SplashCast experience more interactive. The new features include: FanCast, a new mobile publishing feature; live chat; and built-in Twitter instant messaging. Here’s the annoucement from SlashCast’s Marshall Kirkpatrick: New York‚Äôs Coheed and Cambria is the first Columbia band […]

How would you like to get $10,000 for blogging? The Daniel Kovach Scholarship Foundation has announced a new $10,000 scholarship that will be awarded to a student blogger this year. Here are the details: Scholarship Requirements: Your blog must contain unique and interesting information about you and/or things you are passionate about. No spam bloggers […]

Virgin America today announced that it is partnering with AirCell in an effort aimed at offering air-to-ground broadband internet service on Virgin America flights in 2008. Fly Virgin next year and you’ll be able to access the Internet from any seat on their flights. The system is expected to let you connect to the Internet […]

Fair Use exceptions to U.S. copyright laws are responsible for more than $4.5 trillion in annual revenue for the United States, according to the findings of an economic study released today by the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA). The study, which was was conducted in accordance with a World Intellectual Property Organization methodology, suggests […]

TalkShoe today announced the general availability of ShoePhone, a service for unlimited group calling with anyone, anywhere, anytime. The service lets you organize large group discussions over the Internet and to record them as podcasts. Up to 250 people can participate in a live call, which TalkShoe calls a “Talkcast”. 1,000s more can listen to […]

Another report shows that advertisers are rapidly moving their spending from traditional media to the Internet. And while Internet ad spending is rising, advertisers appear to be getting more bang for their buck, because their overall ad spending is down. Internet media’s share of advertising spending increased from 6.4% to 7.6% in the last year, […]

The Wall Street Journal has an article today that suggests that iPods and MP3s are ruining pop music. The idea is that the dynamic compression that has become popular to make music sound louder, combined with audio file compression, which throws away details of the music, have combined to make pop music horrible. According to […]

Numark has announced that it‚Äôs shipping the first iPod DJ mixing console that lets you scratch, control pitch, key-lock, and simultaneously play two songs from a single iPod. If you’re interested in recording dj mixes or music shows, you can even use the iDJ to record back to your iPod. The Numark iDJ2 features an […]

We noted earlier Movable Type’s new iPhone blogging support. It looks like WordPress users are interested in the iPhone, too. Content Robot has introduced iWPhone, a plug in that automatically generates an iPhone-compatible version of WordPress-based sites. The iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme automatically reformats your blog’s content for optimized viewing on Apple’s iPhone. It […]

Movable Type has announced that it now has iPhone blogging support, via the same plugin developed for use with TypePad, their blogging service: Today we are happy to announce Movable Type for the iPhone and iPod Touch, made possible through a plugin developed by Brad Choate that makes use of the design developed by Walt […]