The first iPhone reviews are in, and it looks like the innovative device may actually live up to its hype: The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg says “Expectations for the iPhone have been so high that it can’t possibly meet them all. It isn’t for the average person who just wants a cheap, small phone […]

Apple and AT&T today announced that iPhone users will be able to activate their new phones using iTunes software running on a PC or Mac computer, without having to wait in a store. According to Apple, activating an iPhone takes only minutes as iTunes guides the user through simple steps to choose their service plan, […]

AT&T Inc. and Apple today announced pricing for three service plans for the iPhone, starting at $59.99 per month. All three plans include unlimited data, Visual Voicemail, 200 SMS text messages, roll-over minutes and unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling. iPhone customers can also choose from any of AT&T‚Äôs standard service plans. Here are the details: All iPhone […]

Hundreds of U.S. commercial webcasters are going silent today, June 26, to protest to an impending royalty rate increase that could threaten their ability to make money broadcasting mainstream music. Yahoo! is one of the Internet radio broadcasters that has announced that it is going silent: “Apologies to anyone who was hoping to listen to […]

blinkx today unveiled AdHoc, a contextually relevant video advertising platform,¬†aka¬†AdSense for Video, the latest in a stream of recent announcements from the company. According to blinkx,¬†”Just as Google‚Äôs AdSense transformed advertising on the Text Web, blinkx‚Äôs AdHoc platform will revolutionize video advertising by matching compelling, customized, TV-style ads to your audience on the Video Web.” […]

We’ve advocates of an open, Internet-based media environment at Podcasting News. New statistics suggest, though, that Internet access speeds in the US could become a barrier to adoption of new media like podcasts and video podcasts, and could even be a barrier to US competitiveness. SpeedMatters.org has released a report on Internet access speed (pdf) […]

Businessweek takes a look today at the fight between Blu-Ray and HD DVD to become the dominant standard for high-definition video delivery: Time doesn’t appear to be on either side. With hard-drive capacity growing exponentially and prices coming down even more sharply, experts predict most broadband-enabled homes within 10 years will download much of their […]

Tim Street, Creator and Executive Producer of French Maid TV, sends word that the maids are back at work, this time using their unique brand of softcore edutainment to help people understand how to share photos online with “Tubes“, a new service that lets you create “instant personal networks” for sharing things like music and […]

Dave Winer, who developed one of the standards which podcasting is based on, is excited by the idea of combining audio files with Twitter messages. He calls the combination a “TwitterGram”: The other day I was thinking about other kinds of Twitters. The thing we like about Twitter is that you can’t post a book-length […]

Revision3, the San Francisco startup behind the Internet TV shows Diggnation and XLR8RTV, has raised $8 million more from investors. Revision3 is one of several companies pioneering commercial video podcast networks. Their shows can be viewed online or downloaded for viewing on portable media players such as iPods or devices like the Apple TV. The […]