A new Hollywood video destination site, My Damn Channel, is the latest attempt by mainstream media companies to break into the exploding Internet video market. While the site is getting hyped by the Associated Press & Variety, it appears to be a variation on all the other mainstream media video destination sites that have failed […]

Despite the¬†tremendous popularity of legal music downloads, and the widespread availability of free legal music downloads,¬†music piracy¬†is at an all-time high, according to a report out today that urges the record industry to make legal buying easier and cheaper. Why? A¬†growing band of consumers are unconcerned about being prosecuted for illegal downloads, according to Entertainment […]

Apple today announced that more than three billion songs have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store.i iTunes is the world‚Äôs most popular online music, TV and movie store. iTunes recently surpassed Amazon and Target to become the third largest music retailer in the US. ‚ÄúWe‚Äôd like to thank all of our customers who […]

Audio recording and editing software RecordForAll got the top honor in the Best Sound Program category at the 2007 Shareware Industry Awards. The Awards recognize software programs marketed as shareware, allowing users to try the software before buying. RecordForAll competed against ALSong by ESTsoft, D’Accord iChords by D’Accord Music Software and Winamp Pro by NullSoft. […]

Led Zeppelin, one of the last remaining holdouts against digital music downloads, has announced plans to release Mothership,¬†a new greatest-hits package. More significantly, all 24 tracks on the release¬†will also be available for digital download, marking the first time that any Zeppelin has been made available legally online. In addition to digital downloads, multiple physicall […]

“A high-end cell phone shouldn’t have to have low-end customer service,” says Mindy Bockstein, chairwoman and executive director of the¬†New York’s¬†Consumer Protection Board. The Board announced complaints against Apple, echoing an iPhone¬†lawsuit filed recently by an Illinois man. The iPhone’s battery must be replaced by Apple when the battery no longer holds a charge. Apple […]

¬† At the Summer NAMM Show, Tascam introduced two new MP3 players that are specifically designed for musicians, the¬†MP-BT1 Bass trainer and the MP-VT1 Music and Vocal trainer. Both feature variable-speed playback, which lets you adjust the speed of playback, independent of the pitch. The MP-BT1 Bass trainer comes with a Hi-Z Bass input, multi […]

Geek News Central’s Todd Cochrane, a long-time podcaster and the author of a book on podcasting, has taken a look at the state of podcast sites and podcast feeds and found widespread quality problems. “The amount of garbage sites out there astounded me,” said Cochrane. Cochrane looked at the podcast feeds and sites of podcasts […]

Podcasting and video podcasting startup PodTech has had its share of negative coverage recently, being described by some as “the Valley’s worst video network.” The company has been struggling to get additional funding, has recently let some of its staff go and has been criticized for the quality of its content. PodTech CEO John Furrier’s […]

Google said Friday that its long-promised content filtering system to combat piracy was coming soon. Google made the announcement at a hearing Friday in the billion dollar copyright-infringement lawsuit that Viacom filed against Google. Google attorney Philip S. Beck told the judge the company was working “very intensely” on a video recognition technology. According to […]