MXL Microphones has introduced a new USB mic, the MXL 990 USB Stereo Condenser Microphone. The MXL 990 features two gold diaphragm capsules in an X/Y stereo configuration and promises rich sound with excellent spatial imaging. The MXL 990 USB is a Universal Serial Bus instrument that connects directly to a computer without the need […]

Puretracks.com today becomes the first Canadian digital music store to sell EMI’s digital music catalogue in an unrestricted¬†MP3 file format, without digital rights management (DRM). Beginning immediately in the Canadian market, you can purchase tracks from the likes of The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and Canada’s Nickelback as MP3s.”EMI tracks purchased at Puretracks will play […]

Feedburner is positioning its Headline Animator service as a new type of banner advertising for sites that use news feeds. Here’s how Feedburner explains it: By connecting the simple-to-use Headline Animator service to our world-class feed advertising network we can give content publishers the ability to create their very own dynamic, feed-powered ad units and […]

Information Week’s Alexander Wolfe today offered his DRM Scorecard, summarizing it Hackers Batting 1000, Industry Zero. “Every single significant attempt at consumer-music DRM has been cracked,” writes Wolfe. He supports this by noting that CSS (older DVD encryption), Fairplay (Apple’s encryption technology), AACS (new DVD encryption technology) and Windows Media DRM have all been cracked. […]

A congressional panel voted yesterday, against the Bush administration’s wishes, to shield journalists, including advertising-supported bloggers, vloggers and podcasters, from having to reveal their confidential sources in many situations. The vote is the latest in an ongoing battle over the status of bloggers and other Internet media pioneers, and whether they should be given the […]

YouTube has announced a new music video competition, YouTube OntheRise Rap Edition. The video contest hopes to find the best upcoming rap and hip-hop artists in the US. Interested artists can submit original videos from Friday, August 10 through Friday, August 17. 50 Cent, Common and Polow da Don will help judge the contest and […]

WebbAlert, a new video podcast that’s a variation on Rocketboom, has launched and is betting that by brown-nosing bloggers it can generate buzz for the show. The show, hosted by X-Play‚Äôs Morgan Webb, focuses on technology and gaming news. Here’s what TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington has to say about the show: Webb also ‚Äúgets‚Äù how new […]

Research firm Forrester has released a new report looking at the state of the “mobile web” – custom web sites developed for cell phones – and says the iPhone will put the slimmed-down mobile sites out of their misery. According to Forrester’s Vidya Lakshmipathy: On June 29, 2007, Apple released the highly anticipated iPhone to […]

Rock group AC/DC, one of the last remaining big-name holdouts to digital distribution, has announced an exclusive¬†deal with Verizon Wireless’ V CAST Music’s digital music service to deliver their entire music catalog digitally.AC/DC must have negotiated a sweet deal with Verizon, because their deal looks like it could be a highway to digital music hell: […]

27-time Grammy winner and entertainment icon Quincy Jones has introduced a video podcast series, the Quincy Jones Show. The podcast offers a behind-the-scenes look at Jones’ world, including footage of him at work in the studio with some legendary performers. ‚ÄúI live to touch and share my love and wisdom with people around the world,‚Äù […]