According to a new report by broadcasting research firm Arbritron, iPods and portable media players are one of the fastest-growing audio platforms, but the audience for traditional radio remains strong. While Arbitron’s analysis paints a fairly rosy picture of the state of radio, their stats confirm several industry trends that may cause concern for traditional […]

Middio is a new site, currently in beta, that hopes to carve out a niche by making it easier to find music videos published on YouTube. Here‚Äôs the description from their site: Middio is a simple website that organizes music videos uploaded by the public to YouTube. In other words, Middio goes through the trouble […]

Podcast Hotel, a podcasting events being held April 20-21 in San Francisco at the Swedish American Hall, is offering streaming video of discussions, via UStream.tv. Billed as ‚Äútwo days of discussion around the intersection of technology, indie music and indie film,‚Äù Podcast Hotel will features lectures, concerts and discussions on digital media issues such as […]

PEHub, a public forum for private equity, reports that PodBridge has raised around $8.5 million in its second round of venture capital financing. Podbridge offers measurement and ad services for advertisers and publishers; provides advertisers with significant control over the insertion of ads within specific content; and enables targeting to specific demographics. Sutter Hill Ventures […]

Elgato Systems has released EyeTV 2.4, a free update to its EyeTV 2 software which now includes one-click export for Apple TV. The feature functions in the same way as EyeTV 2‚Äôs iPod export button; select a video from the list of recordings and click the Apple TV button in the menu bar. Alternatively, the […]

Virtual Music has introduced DeliverASong.com, a website that lets you send digital songs to friends and loved ones over the Internet. Buying a song costs $.99. DeliverASong.com sends an email letting the recipient know of the gift and providing a specially encoded web address to download their song(s) in MP3 format, which is compatible with […]

Apple’s soon-to-be-launched iPhone will be irrelevant to business users because it is a “closed device” and does not support Microsoft Office, according to a senior executive at Microsoft. “It’s a great music phone, and I’m sure it will be fantastic and have an interesting user interface,” Microsoft’s Asia-Pacific head of smartphone strategy Chris Sorenson told […]

Sales of Apple Macintosh computers grew 30% year-to-year in the first quarter of 2007, despite interest in Microsoft’s newly introduced Vista operation system. The growth in units sold for all computer vendors was 2.9%, making the growth in Mac sales 10 times the industry average. Microsoft’s official consumer launch of Vista in January had very […]

Elizabeth Arden is giving away ten limited-edition 30-gigabyte video iPod’s autographed by Britney Spears as part of a three-week promotion of Britney Spears’ Midnight Fantasy perfume. “Fragrances are one of the many ways I express my creativity,” says Britney Spears. “My fans are so talented and I hope that they enjoy capturing their own creative […]

The iPhone is on schedule to hit the U.S. market at the end of June, a senior executive with AT&T Inc. said on Wednesday. The iPhone has received unprecedented attention since Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs demonstrated a prototype of the device in January. “Our expectations are good. Our testing has been good,” said AT&T […]