The Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s Corynne McSherry has published a blog post that explains why the group is taking part in a lawsuit against Amazon over the Kindle: Customers who shell out $300 for a Kindle are not getting the product they expect: a device that will let them do electronically most of the things they […]

PodCamp Boston 4 kicks off this weekend at 8am at the Harborside Campus Center. The event runs August 8-9 and offers podcasters, bloggers, YouTubers, social networkers and anyone interested in new media an opportunity to learn and network. PodCamp Boston 4 Schedule See the Podcamp.org site for a list of upcoming podcamps.

Print Media Deathwatch: The Newspaper Association of America has released its latest numbers on Web traffic to newspaper sites, and while the numbers sound impressive, they reveal a fundamental challenge facing the industry – getting your attention. Highlights of the NAA’s stats: The total U.S. unique Internet audience: 195,974,309. Of these, 70,340,277 or 35.89 percent […]

We’re still skeptical about the prospects for the Microsoft Zune HD….but CNet’s Donald Bell recently geeked-out with a pair of the new Zune HDs and came away impressed: I am tentatively reaffirming my faith in Microsoft. This thing was worth the wait, folks. Mind you, it’s not going to crush the iPod Touch–a product that […]

Olympus has announced a new portable audio recorder, the LS-11, a follow-up to their LS-10 handheld audio recorder. The LS-11 can record 24-bit/96kHz stereo WAVs, as well as MP3 and WMA format files. It’s got the same on-board microphones as the LS-10, as well as rear-mounted speakers for auditioning recorded material. New features include 8GB […]

CNet’s Matt Rosoff got a preview of the upcoming Microsoft Zune HD, and came away “thinking that Microsoft might finally have a contender”: I was surprised and pretty impressed with its small size–without measuring, I’d guess it’s maybe two-thirds the size of an iPod Touch, and quite a bit thinner. In my hands, it felt […]

Microsoft’s weak quarterly earnings report is pushing some to call on the company to abandon its once-hyped “iPod-killer”, the Zune. According to a Marketwatch story, investors think it’s time to dump the Zune and focus their attention on competing with Apple’s iPhone: “The market reception for Zune is so disappointing that many retailers have even […]

YouTube took credit today for pushing Chris Brown’s Forever, a song that was released over a year ago, to #4 on the iTunes singles chart and #3 on Amazon’s best-selling MP3 list. YouTube suggests that user-generated video, combined with their rights management tools, packs a powerful marketing punch: At YouTube, we have sophisticated content management […]

VoloMedia, a provider of advertising and reporting solutions for portable media, has announced that it was awarded U.S. Patent 7,568,213, titled Method for Providing Episodic Media. VoloMedia says it expects companies creating products relating to podcasting and media synchronization to enter into partnerships with VoloMedia.

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Chicago’s Horizon Realty, a property management company, filed a $50,000 libel lawsuit Monday against a former tenant, Amanda Bonnen, over one of her alleged Twitter posts. Horizon argues that Bonnen libeled the company with her May 12th tweet, which read in part “Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon Realty […]