A new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project highlights the fact that most Americans are not participating in blogging, podcasting or Internet media sharing sites like YouTube. While 85% of Americans use the Internet or cell phones, only 8% are what the study calls information “omnivores” – people that fully participate “in […]

NBC Universal is siding with media conglomerate Viacom in a piracy lawsuit against Google’s YouTube video sharing site. In a filing Friday, NBC Universal and Viacom submitted a friend of the court brief opposing YouTube’s bid to dismiss the copyright infringement suit brought by Robert Tur, a LA News Service operator. Tur sued YouTube in […]

RCA has announced the new EZ201 Small Wonder, an inexpensive digital camcorder designed to make it easy to capture and share video. It joins a growing segment of cheap camcorders, like the Flip Video, designed to offer basic image quality and the most frequently used features of more expensive camcoders. “We‚Äôve listened to our consumers‚Äô […]

iLounge is reporting that Microsoft will be releasing a new Zune on Monday: We‚Äôre hearing that Microsoft‚Äôs holding an event in Redmond on Monday to preview/announce a new Zune – most likely the flash-based one the company‚Äôs been hinting at for a while. No other details yet; if there‚Äôs something worth telling you about on […]

Interest in Apple’s upcoming iPhone appears to be growing. According to ChangeWave analyst Paul Carton, their research reveals “exceptionally high levels of excitement surround the iPhone‚Äôs upcoming release. Nearly one-in-10 respondents (9%) say they are likely to buy the new iPhone once it becomes available in June.” “Another 7% say they are likely to buy […]

UK’s Football Association Premier League Limited and indie music publisher Bourne Co. filed a class action lawsuit in federal court in New York Friday to stop the unauthorized use of their works, and those of all other similarly situated copyright holders, on YouTube. The lawsuit names as defendants two YouTube affiliates (YouTube, Inc. and YouTube […]

Responding to an Internet revolt over the censorship of sites that have posted a number key that can be used to unencrypt HD-DVDs,¬† Advanced Access Content System (AACS) head Michael Ayers said that they’ve received “good cooperation from most folk” in response to takedown requests intended to ban the information from the Internet. It looks […]

Presidential candidate Barack Obama on Thursday called on Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean to make video from any Democratic presidential debates available “for free and without restriction.” Obama supports a call from Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig to share the debate videos and eliminate unnecessary regulation of political speech. “Technology has exploded the opportunity […]

YouTube has announced a new program to expand its revenue sharing program to top YouTube video bloggers, including LisaNova, renetto, HappySlip, smosh, and valsartdiary. Participating user-partners will be treated as other content partners and will have the ability to control the monetization of the videos they create. Once they‚Äôve selected a video to be monetized, […]

NASA has launched a new video podcast, NASA EDGE, that provides an offbeat look at the nation’s aerospace program. The hosts of NASA EDGE offer an unscripted take on the latest events at NASA. Chris Giersch and Blair Allen host the show, with Franklin Fitzgerald as its news anchor. In the latest episode, Giersch and […]