Shebly Seyrafi, an analyst with Wall Street investment bank Caris & Co., this morning raised his price target for Apple stock, forecasting that iPod sales in the coming (June) quarter should be up from the current (March) quarter. Seyrafi says he now sees iPod units in the quarter growing to 11.9 million units from 10.5 […]

An article in today’s New York Times looks at how some authors are using podcasts and audiobooks as stepping stones in getting publishing deals. When you are a budding author and you appear on television, it is sure to enhance book sales. But what do you do if your book is not even written, never […]

A new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project highlights the fact that most Americans are not participating in blogging, podcasting or Internet media sharing sites like YouTube. While 85% of Americans use the Internet or cell phones, only 8% are what the study calls information “omnivores” – people that fully participate “in […]

NBC Universal is siding with media conglomerate Viacom in a piracy lawsuit against Google’s YouTube video sharing site. In a filing Friday, NBC Universal and Viacom submitted a friend of the court brief opposing YouTube’s bid to dismiss the copyright infringement suit brought by Robert Tur, a LA News Service operator. Tur sued YouTube in […]

SplashCast, a startup site that lets users create channels of media content, has found itself in hot water over its new MyPodcastNetwork service, a social networking service for podcasts introduced earlier this week. Instead of generating excitement in the podcasting community, the introduction has generated a furor of anger from podcasters that feel that SplashCast […]

Wizzard Media, the leading podcast hosting network, distributed over 70,000,000 podcast episodes in March to an audience of millions, according to the company. In the first quarter of 2007, Wizzard Media‚Äôs network growth surpassed 50% of the 360,000,000 episodes it distributed in all of 2006 for its 8,000 independent and corporate clients. Daily requests for […]

Could Apple’s upcoming iPhone eclipse the marketshare of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile phones by 2008? Possibly, according to Markitecture, who recently surveyed 1,300 people to find out. 77% of respondents were at least slightly familiar with the iPhone. Among those familiar with the product, 41% had a good impression of the iPhone based on everything they […]

MyPodcastNetwork, a new social networking service for podcasting introduced yesterday by SplashCast, has ignited a controversy over podcasters’ concerns that the service is hijacking their content. MyPodcastingNetwork lets users embed a podcast player in Web pages, similar to the way you can embed YouTube videos in Web and blog pages. What makes the player interesting, […]

Paul Fischer of the A.D.D. Cast tipped us off to an all-(podcast)-star cover of Jonathan Coulton’s song, First of May. The cover is a memorial tribute to the late science fiction podcaster, Joe Murphy. Murphy was a co-host of the Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas podcast, contributor to several other sci-fi related podcasts, and official book reviewer […]

In a discussion with USA Today at the paper’s CEO Forum, Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer dismisses the Apple iPhone, saying “There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.” Surprisingly, though, Balmer is equally skeptical about the idea of a Zune phone. “It’s not a concept you’ll ever get from […]