According to Matthew Inman, “Every iPod owner passes through seven distinct phases.” This illustrated guide depicts the journey all iPod owners must undertake.

A new podcast from Opera News promises to take listeners To Hell and Back. This week, San Francisco-based period-instrument orchestra Philharmonia Baroque presents the world premiere of a new mini-opera by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer. Written specifically for PBO and its Baroque instruments, To Hell and Back is a modern-day telling of […]

KCRW, a Santa Monica, CA public radio station, has doubled its audience using podcasting and other Internet audio technologies. KCRW is aggressively pushing live streaming of programs, podcasting and other Internet audio technologies, and in the process, demonstrating the potential the Internet may hold for all radio stations, public or commercial. KCRW online had 760,000 […]

YouTube’s acquisition by Google $1.65 billion appears to have made it an appealing target for lawsuits. Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, whose site is Utube.com, is suing YouTube, according to a news report on WTOL-TV in Toledo, Ohio. The lawsuit alleges that YouTube.com is confusingly similar to Universal Tubes’ UTube.com, which sells tube, pipe and […]

Most iPod owners planning to buy another MP3 player will consider Microsoft’s Zune, according to ABI Research. ABI says that many prospective MP3 player buyers‚Äîeven owners of iPods‚Äîwould be likely to choose Microsoft’s Zune player. “Our conclusion,” says principal analyst Steve Wilson, “is that iPod users don’t display the same passionate loyalty to iPods that […]

Focus on the Family has launched a new podcast, The Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast. While the organization publishes several other podcasts, this is the first one featuring content developed specifically for podcasting. The podcast will feature interviews with actors and producers from Adventures in Odyssey and previews of upcoming shows. ‚ÄúWe‚Äôve always tried to […]

Apple today announced the launch of iTunes Latino, a dedicated area within the US iTunes Store (www.itunes.com) featuring Latin music, music videos, television shows, audiobooks and podcasts. iTunes Latino offers hundreds of thousands of Latin and international music tracks, including exclusive tracks and albums available only on iTunes.‚ÄúLatin music has been a huge hit on […]

Apple‚Äôs new iPod shuffle, the world‚Äôs smallest digital music player, will be available in Apple‚Äôs retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers this Friday, November 3. Nearly half the size of the original, the new iPod shuffle is half a cubic inch in volume, weighs half an ounce and features a minimal aluminum design with a […]

Google Watch reports that Google plans to release Google AdSense for Audio sometime this quarter. “Earlier this year, Google contracted with several podcast engineers to help them develop Google AdSense for Audio. According to one source the product was originally slated for a 3Q release, but apparently it slipped behind a month or so. Scuttlebutt […]

Horizon Wimba, a provider of collaboration tools and software applications to the online education market, has released Wimba Voice Tools version 5.1, which includes two new voice tools ‚Äì the Wimba Podcaster and the Wimba Voice Presentation Tool. Wimba Podcaster is designed to make it easy for teachers to add audio files to their online […]