Magazine publisher Marie Claire’s podcast series, The Masthead With Marie Claire, is getting the magazine attention….but for the wrong reasons. The podcast is raising questions about the blurring of advertising and editorial content in podcasts. The video podcasts, which are produced in collaboration with Podshow.com, are sponsored by Unilever and Diesel. The video podcasts feature […]

Teachers at schools across the country are figuring out that iPods make great tools for cheating on tests. iPods and other portable media players can be hidden under clothing and used to play back formulas and other information for tests. “It doesn’t take long to get out of the loop with teenagers,” said Principal Aaron […]

Podcasting community site Podcast Pickle has updated its site, introducing a new look and several new features. Updates for podcasters include: A newly-designed podcast player designed to fit within the margins of blogs. A¬†virtual “tip jar” to allow listeners to leave tips for their favorite podcasters. A direct link to your Amazon or Ebay store. […]

A federal court ruled yesterday that music performance and royalty fees don’t apply to music downloads and movie downloads that feature music. The U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York affirmed a lower court ruling that found that digital music and media downloads aren‚Äôt public performances. Because they aren’t public performances, they […]

Sony has introduced three new high-definition camcorders that are making shooting 1080 HD video more affordable than ever. The Handycam HDR-CX7 model is the world‚Äôs smallest and lightest AVCHD high-definition camcorder. It can record nearly three hours of full HD 1080 video on an 8-GB Memory Stick PRO Duo media card (LP mode). The HDR-SR7 […]

Sun Microsystems is introducing a new platform for streaming on-demand video over IP networks that promises to deliver 160,000 streams of Internet television. Sun Streaming, with a suite of Sun software to manage the system, delivers 160,000 video streams, or 40,000 high-definition TV streams, simultaneously at 2M bps (bits per second). Fifteen of these systems, […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs indicated Wednesday that he’s unlikely to give in to calls from the music industry to add a subscription-based model to iTunes. “Never say never, but customers don’t seem to be interested in it,” Jobs told Reuters in an interview after Apple reported blow-out quarterly results. “The subscription model has failed so […]

Apple Board Members Bill Campbell, Millard Drexler, Albert Gore Jr., Arthur D. Levinson, Eric Schmidt and Jerry York today released the following response to former Apple CFO Fred Anderson blaming Apple’s stock-options woes on CEO Steve Jobs: We are not going to enter into a public debate with Fred Anderson or his lawyer. Steve Jobs […]

Nearly 30 years after it aired on television, episodes of WKRP, a television show about the antics of a Cincinatti radio station, are being made available on DVD. Unfortunately for fans, the series, which prominently featured Dr. Johnny Fever (played by Howard Hesseman) playing popular music of the day, has been “butchered”, removing the music […]

Apple plans to add new features and capabilities to the iPhone and Apple TV through a series of software updates, the company has confirmed. In an analyst call last night, Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer confirmed the company plans to offer new features to both the iPhone and Apple TV.”We hope the result will be […]