The Zune portable media player, Microsoft’s iPod-killer, will be getting advanced podcasting support, according to exclusive information that we have received today. Microsoft hasn’t made an official announcement yet, but we’ve managed to obtain previously unreleased images that show the Zune’s podcast support in action. While we may have criticized Microsoft in the past for […]

Popular tech-startup-fetish site TechCrunch announced today that it has agreed to acquire the assets of FuckedCompany, a website that features stories on dot com company failures. Assets to be transferred in the transaction include the domain name fuckedcompany.com, all content on the site and other assets related to its business. The combined company should be […]

Google today announced the launch of Google TiSP, a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users’ plumbing systems. The Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP) project is a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local […]

March 29: It’s 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we’re highlighting a great free music podcast. One of the things that is great about music podcasts is that they let you explore whole categories of music that mainstream radio tends to ignore. A great example of this is […]

CNet is reporting that they learned from a customer service manager at Cingular that Apple’s iPhone is scheduled for release on June 11. That date is the first day of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, scheduled to be held in San Francisco from June 11 through June 15. The iPhone’s unique design has generated an unprecedented […]

Miglia Technology has announced TVMax+, a content collection hub, for use with iPod, AppleTV and Apple computers. TVMax+ lets you view TV shows on every screen in your home, from your living room to your iPod to your Mac. TVMax+ also doubles as a digital TV tuner, so you can watch, pause and record TV […]

Advertisers in the UK are spending more on Internet advertising than on newspapers ads. Spending on UK internet advertising surged in 2006, overtaking newspaper ads for the first time, according to a new report from the UK Internet Advertising Bureau. Online advertising expenditure jumped 41.2% to ¬£2.01bn during the year. In contrast, spending on national […]

Napster, the music service with 9 lives, has announced a new offering to new or existing AT&T wireless and high-speed Internet customers, giving them unlimited free access for one year to the over three million songs in Napster to Go’s music library. Subscribers will be able to download and organize these songs, create playlists for […]

A controversial political parody of Apple’s 1984 ad that portrays Hillary Clinton as a newspeak-spewing “big-brother” is getting an extension on its 15 minutes of fame, courtesy of rights owners to George Orwell’s novel. The Hillary Clinton 1984 ad is the work of Phil De Vellis, who has said that he made the anti-Hillary ad […]

Microsoft has released several bug fixes for Windows Vista bugs, including one to resolve an issue where an Apple iPod can be corrupted by using the Safely Remove Hardware feature on a system running Windows Vista. Earlier this month, Apple updated iTunes to Version 7.1.1 to patch several Vista-related problems. At the time, Apple said […]