Apple CEO Steve Jobs posted a surprising statement on the company’s site today, challenging the music industry to abandon DRM (copy protection) on digital music downloads. Jobs outlines three possible futures for digital music: Continue as is it is now, with each manufacturer competing freely with their own “top to bottom” proprietary systems for selling, playing and protecting music. […]

It looks like Internet video has reached a tipping point: two-thirds of the people surveyed in a recent study view streaming video content at least once a week. More and more, viewers are watching on-demand video, and watching less TV. While television content is popular, some of the most popular Internet videos are turning out […]

A new service from WCities lets you automatically put city guides on your iPod. PodCityGuides offers over 300 City Guides worldwide that can be downloaded and synced to your iPod. The guides feature information about hotels, restaurants, nightclubs, movies, local events, concerts, the weather and news. The service offers a free application for Windows that […]

The New York Times reports that Wal-Mart is partnering with all of the six major Hollywood studios ‚Äî Walt Disney, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox and Universal ‚Äî to sell digital movies and television shows on its Web site, becoming the first traditional retailer to do so. The move plunges Wal-Mart into competition […]

Recent research by Harris Interactive suggests that the biggest threat to the future of broadcast television may come from YouTube and other Internet video sources. Over four in 10 (42%) online U.S. adults say they have watched a video at YouTube, and 14 percent say they visit the site frequently. Almost one in three (32%) […]

We’re not sure if we really want to plug headphones into a watch, but the Swatch Infinity looks pretty sexy. It is a bracelet-style digital watch that features a removable face, MP3 player, video and photo viewer. Unfortunately, it’s a design concept by designer Pierre Merlet.

TiVo has announced this year’s top Super Bowl broadcast moments, based on aggregated, anonymous, second-by-second audience measurement data about how TiVo subscribers watched the game. The company’s analysis shows that viewers were as interested in the ads as the game, with several user-created ads among the top moments of the broadcast. “Commercials were the big […]

PodZinger has announced the release of a new, larger video player. For easier viewing, the size of the player has increased to 480 x 425 pixels. They’ve also introduced ZingLinks, which include: The ability to embed audio and video on a user’s page via PodZinger-generated HTML code The ability to send audio and video to […]

PBS has introduced a new podcast, the Take One Step podcast, as part of a new health campaign launched to raise awareness of heart disease. The campaign features a wide variety of resources to help inform people about the number one killer in the US. To accompany the premiere of The Hidden Epidemic: Heart Disease […]

JupiterResearch reports that 53 percent of online teens watch video on the Internet occasionally and 22 percent of them view video weekly or more frequently. “Younger consumers tend to be extremely savvy about online media so it’s not surprising that teens are making significant use of Internet video,” said Joe Laszlo, Senior Analyst and Research […]