The Boss has released a new video and a free download to celebrate Halloween. “If you grew up in central or south Jersey, you grew up with the “‘Jersey Devil’,” says Springsteen. “Here’s a little musical Halloween treat. Have fun!”

Yamaha is now shipping the Pocketrak CX, a portable audio recorder with an upgraded stereo microphone system designed for recording live music. Like its predecessor, the Pocketrak 2G Pocket Recorder, the Pocketrak CX supports a variety of different recording formats from 16-bit 44.1 CD quality .wav files to MP3. It comes with an onboard speaker, stand adapter, and […]

New media isn’t just for the cutting edge hipsters anymore; the suits are officially moving in. Marketers are jumping into new media and moving their advertising budgets from traditional media to social networking sites, blogs, podcasts and mobile marketing.  According to a new survey by Epsilon,  nearly two-thirds (63%) of the marketing executives they surveyed […]

comScore today released a study of blog traffic in the U.K. that found that 41 percent of the total U.K. Internet audience visited a blog in August. “Blogs have become part of the essential fabric of the Internet today,” said Herve Le Jouan, Managing Director, comScore Europe. “They’re increasingly displacing traditional media usage and carving […]

RADUS today unveiled a new media hub platform that lets you simultaneously discover, search, share, and view rich media across leading computer, mobile, and social networking services, including Facebook and MySpace. RADUS (ray-dee-us) was designed to address one of the major issues confronting online content delivery—the lack of a consistent user experience. RADUS lets you […]

Netflix today said that it has reached a deal with TiVo to provide digital movie streaming to many of the 800,000 broadband-connected Tivo subscribers. The companies are testing the new service in several thousand U.S. households and expect it to be broadly available in early December. Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” Web streaming service, with a library of more […]

The Blogger & Podcaster Media Network is a new media network startup that promises a “six-figure income for all.” It’s not clear from the site if they are promising a six figure salary for everybody that signs up, or if everybody that signs up will just be asked to split it up equally. Here are […]

Put this in the unsubstantiated rumor category – but AppleInsider is reporting that iPhone firmware 2.2 will add support for wireless downloads: A tipster shared with us some screenshots of the new firmware, including what appears to be the ability to download podcasts directly to your iPhone (and presumably your iPod touch). This could tidily […]

ZDNet’s Tech Bits is declaring Blu-Ray dead: Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product. With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope. Even $150 Blu-ray […]

Ludicrous has released a new WordPress plugin, the snappily named MagpieRSS Hotfix for Enclosure Support and Character Encoding Issues, that enhances the WordPress RSS parser, adding support for RSS enclosures. This free plugin adds support for RSS enclosures to MagpieRSS, the RSS parser behind the fetch_rss() function in WordPress. It also forces MagpieRSS to use UTF-8 […]