Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA), the interactive children’s book series, is now offering iPod versions of its stories. Choose Your Own Adventure #1 – The Abominable Snowman audiobook download is designed for use with all varieties of Apple iPod. The CYOA download goes in countless directions as “you” in the role of main character click […]

CES Update: MusicIP is inviting both music fans and music-centric software developers to take advantage of their newly introduced tag-fixing functionality, which cleans up the metadata in digital music collections of any size. Along with building instant playlists and acoustic music searching, music fans can use MusicIP Mixer to fill in missing metadata and correct […]

CES Update: Ford has announced factory-installed, in-car communications and entertainment systems that offer support for iPods. The technology is based on Microsoft Auto software (Sync), and supports virtually any mobile phone or digital media player. Drivers can operate their iPod (or other device) using voice commands or the vehicle’s steering wheel or radio controls. “Sync […]

Melodeo today announced the first on-demand mobile podcast and radio listening service in the UK with British wireless operator 3. Melodeo’s Mobilcast mobile podcast and radio listening service is immediately available to almost 4 million wireless customers in the UK and more than 40 million wireless customers in North America through distribution deals with Cingular […]

Digital music consumers listen to more music, enjoy more new music, talk more about music and attend more concerts, according to a survey released today by the Digital Media Association (DiMA). Nearly 60 percent of consumers report that they are listening to more music since they started using an online service. The 1008 consumers surveyed […]

A Brazilian court has ordered YouTube to be shut down until it removes a celebrity sex video featuring Daniela Cicarelli, a model and ex-wife of soccer great Ronaldo. Cicarelli sued YouTube after a video of her apparently having sex in shallow water on a beach with her boyfriend Tato Malzoni was posted to the site. […]

The Web is set to become the largest video platform ever, according to ClipBlast, a video search site. ‚ÄúIn 2007, the Web will become the largest distribution platform of video ever,‚Äù said Gary Baker, founder and CEO, ClipBlast! ‚ÄúWe‚Äôre witnessing a profound transformation ‚Äì really, a series of transformations ‚Äì in how information and entertainment […]

Sirius Satellite Radio today announced that it ended 2006 with approximately 6,024,000 subscribers, an 82% increase over the company’s 2005 ending subscriber base, but short of its goals for the year. Based on preliminary financial data, Sirius also achieved its first ever quarter of positive free cash flow in the fourth quarter of 2006. Both […]

7 women of podcasting have banded together for Podshow’s Showgirls, a new podcast starring Cali Lewis from Geekbrief TV, Share from Rock and Roll TV, KFC from the Podchick podcast, Anji Bee from the Chillcast, SoccerGirl from SoccerGirl Incorporated and Karla and Karen from Rumor Girls along with moderator Franklin McMahon. “It’s evident that in […]

One of the creators of podcasting, Podshow’s Adam Curry, thinks that the controversial Saddam Hussein execution video represents a defining moment for Internet media, and a jump-the-shark moment for mainstream media: “One last prediction as we close out 2006,” notes Curry. “The Saddam Hanging video will go down in history as the Shark Jump moment […]