A new organization, the Association for Downloadable Media (ADM), announced its formation yesterday. The goal of the ADM is to create standards for audience measurement and advertising for downloadable media. The ADM also hopes to accelerate the growth of podcasting into a commercially viable medium. The ADM plans to focus primarily on the world of […]

Federated Department Stores will begin rolling out iPod-dispensing vending machines to 180 Macy’s locations nationwide this fall. The vending machines and inventory are owned and maintained by Zoom Systems, a San Francisco company that has been placing its robotic vending machines in airports, hotels, malls and other high-traffic locations. The latest deployment, dubbed Zoom@Macy’s, follows […]

The UK’s Mail On Sunday has given away about three million copies of Prince’s new album, Planet Earth. The promotion has generated heated debate in the UK, because some consider the giveaway an insult to the music industry. The giveaway is a high-profile example of an established musician experimenting with new ways of getting their […]

Podcasts are available for presentations at iPhoneDevCamp, a BarCamp-style event focusing on iPhone development held this weekend in San Francisco. You can subscribe to the podcast using this feed URL: http://kh7wg.podomatic.com/rss2.xml The event featured¬†a iPhone hackathon, and the resulting applications are available to try out. Apps include an iPhone Jabber client, games, iPhone-friendly websites and […]

Science & Sons has created a bizarre old-school style iPod dock that offers to replace the typical cheesy iPod¬†speakers with a souped-up gramophone. The Phonophonics II delivers 55db directly from your iPod, acoustically amplifying the output of your portable media player’s earbuds. Here’s their info on the strange device: Through passive amplification alone, These unique […]

Zoom has introduced a new portable recorder, the H2 Handy Recorder, designed for capturing interviews, musical performances,¬†seminars and conferences. According to Zoom, the H2 provides studio-quality stereo recording in an easy-to-use, ultra-portable device. Description: The H2 is the only portable recorder with 4 mic capsules onboard in an W-X/Y configuration, for recording from the front […]

Sweden’s The Local, an English-language news source, reports that Sigbritt L√∂thberg, a 75-year old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden, now has the fastest home Internet connection in the world. L√∂thberg’s home has been supplied with a 40 Gigabits per second connection, thousands of times faster than the average residential link. According to the report, […]

Cambridge University PhD candidate Rufus Pollock has published a paper that takes a look at the economics of copyrights, and concludes that the optimum length of copyrights is 14 years, a fraction of their current length. Pollock’s research (pdf) looks at the economic benefits of both copyrighted work and work that has entered the public […]

It looks like the high-profile negotiations between¬†the music industry and¬†commercial Internet broadcasters over royalty rates for netcasting traditionally licensed music is moving from the court system to the backroom. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has denied motions to stay any aspect of the ruling by the Copyright Royalty Judges […]

Social media network imeem and Warner Music Group today announced a strategic partnership that will make Warner’s library of music available to imeem users in North America for on-demand streaming using imeem‚Äôs free, ad-supported service. imeem‚Äôs Web site lets users create, share and discover user-generated custom playlists, video channels, photo slideshows, and blogs with other […]