PB Teen, a division of Pottery Barn, has introduced the iChair, a chair designed specifically for use with iPods and other portable music players. The chair has a special slot to hold your portable player, two built-in 10 watt speakers and a massive 3″ 15 watt subwoofer. It’s not a space womb, but at $399, […]

Evoca, a Web service that lets users create, organize, share and search consumer-generated audio, has introduced a Spanish language site. Web users with a Spanish-language browser will automatically view Evoca.com in Spanish. A link on each page lets users switch from English to Spanish.Evoca members can make digital recordings of any length with any telephone, […]

Microsoft is making deals to deliver its attempt at an iPod-killer, the Zune, loaded with free music from record companies wanting to promote their bands. According to Microsoft’s Cesar Menendez, the Zune will come preloaded with audio and video from CSS, Hot Chip and 30 Seconds to Mars. No word on podcasting support on the […]

You won’t hear it from Apple, but an Apple Movie Store appears to be on its way.During an earnings conference call last week, Lions Gate Entertainment CEO Jon Feltheimer said that his company had a digital delivery deal in place with iTunes, and that it would launch some time before the end of this year. […]

PodcastAwards.com has announced the winners in 20 of the 22 categories of the 2006 People’s Choice Podcast Awards. Winners announced include: Entertainment ‚Äì Pottercast; Mature – The Dawn and Drew Show; and Technology / Science – DiggNation. Podcasting News got spanked in the category of Best Podcast Directory, losing out to Apple’s iTunes. “We’re hoping […]

Added to podcast directory index: MLPodcast – a directory of real estate podcasts ChurchPodcasts – from the Podcast Pickle guys, focusing on Christian podcasts. GodCast1000 – also focuses on Christian podcasts PodcastDirectory.org – a general directory If you have information on additional directories no listed in the podcast directory index, contact us.

Christian.com has introduced GodCast1000.com, a podcast directory dedicated solely to Christian podcasts. ‚ÄúReligious believers want more ‚ÄúGod on their iPod,‚Äù, and churches are rapidly finding that through podcasting, church members can take the Sunday sermon with them throughout the week,‚Äù said Lee Raney, president of Christian.com. GodCast1000.com ranks the top Christian podcasts by categories, such […]

The Bob Moog Foundation for Electronic Music has introduced a podcast, the Moog Foundation Podcast. The first episode (MP3) features an introduction to the foundation and a look at the band Perpetual Groove, a synth rock band from Athens, Georgia.Moog, the creator of the Moog synthesizer and a pioneer of electronic music, died last year […]

About.com, a New York Times property, has launched a sponsored medical podcast about heartburn and acid reflux.Each podcast will be approximately three to five minutes long and will be introduced monthly. The series is the first of its kind on About.com. The series is sponsored by AstraZeneca, a pharmaceutical company that makes Prilosec and Nexium […]

Pharmaceutical companies are rushing to increase their spending on Internet advertising. According to an eMarketer report, drug companies’ Internet spending will increase by about 25% in this year alone, to $780 million, as marketers shift from consumer mass marketing to more targeted opportunities on the Internet. By 2008, online spending is expected rise to $1.3 […]