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VocalBooth.com Releases New Portable Vocal Booth

May 18th, 2007 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Podcasting Hardware

VocalBooth.com, a manufacturer of modular sound reduction enclosures, has released their 14 Carat Diamond Series vocal booths. The Diamond Series, named for its shape, is a five-sided booth engineered to utilize the corner of a room. The five sided design also creates non-parallel walls that help to reduce standing waves. The new 14 Carat series […]



YouTube Founders Challenge Pentagon Ban

May 18th, 2007 | By | Category: General

YouTube’s co-founders on Thursday challenged the Pentagon’s assertion that soldiers overseas were sapping too much bandwidth by watching online videos, the military’s principal reason for blocking YouTube and other popular Web sites from Defense Department computers. “They said it might be a bandwidth issue, but they created the Internet, so I don’t know what the […]



Engadget Offers Mea Culpa For AppleGate

May 18th, 2007 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Commentary, Podcasting Events

Engadget has issued a mea culpa for “AppleGate” – its announcement that Apple was delaying the iPhone and the next version of OS X for several months. The story, which turned out to be unfounded, lost Apple stock owners an amazing $4 billion with minutes. Engadget’s Ryan Block had the task of explaining their situation: […]



MusicXPC Intros S3 Studio Production Computer

May 18th, 2007 | By | Category: Computer Hardware, Podcasting Hardware

MusicXPC‘s Professional S3 studio production computer is a Windows-based system specially tweaked for media production, configured from the BIOS up to handle audio tracks, effects and virtual instruments with ease. The system features an Intel Core 2 Duo processor running at 2.4GHz with a 4MB L2 Cache on a 1066 MHz FSB. The machine comes […]



Apple iPhone FCC’d

May 17th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Music, iPods & Portable Media Players

Apple Inc.¬†has received the official go-ahead on the iPhone, its first mobile handset,¬†from the Federal Communications Commission. The innovative phone promises to combine cell phone capabilities with the iPod’s media power and cutting-edge mobile Internet features. In an SAR Test Report conducted on February 6th, 2007, FCC Test Lab Manager Lothar Schmidt wrote the following: […]



Internet Television Downloads To Reach $1.5 Billion in Five Years

May 17th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Video

The market for premium Internet content is exploding, according to ABI Research, as major studios and content aggregators are working to make some of their content available as digital downloads. They expect the television to become the ultimate destination for Internet video content, and for set-top box Internet video to deliver $1.5 billion in service […]



Advertising Dollars Expected To Flow Into Podcasting

May 17th, 2007 | By | Category: Making Money with Podcasts, Podcasting Research, Podcasting Statistics

comScore today released the results of a study profiling the “iTunes podcasting audience”. The study, sponsored by mobile advertising service Ad Infuse, focused on users who downloaded podcasts via iTunes in October 2006. It found the podcast audience to an attractive demographic for advertisers, with a core audience of high-income, well-educated people. Research Highlights: Males […]



Comedy Central and AtomFilms Team Up for Internet Video Competition

May 17th, 2007 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Digital Video Downloads, Video

Comedy Central and AtomFilms have announced the second annual online video competition, Comedy Central Test Pilots, this summer. Test Pilots will give viewers the chance to create their own short form comedy pilots, with the best being voted on by viewers at Comedy Central. The winning pilot will earn its creator $5,000 and a chance […]



Latest AACS DRM Hacked

May 17th, 2007 | By | Category: Video

AnyDVD has been updated to handle the latest updates to Advanced Access Content System (AACS), the DRM standard used to limit how next-generation DVDs can be used. Many upcoming HD DVD & Blu-ray DVD releases will use the latest revisions to AACS. AnyDVD is designed to help users rip protected DVDs into unprotected formats so […]



Coca-Cola Offering Free iTunes Tracks Across Europe

May 16th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Music

Coca-Cola has announced that it is teaming with iTunes on Europe’s biggest music promotion ever, spanning 17 European countries and running from May until the end of August. As part of the promotion, Coke and iTunes will give away songs from the iTunes Store in over 2 billion promotional packs of Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and […]