Pocket Podcasts, an open source podcast client for Windows Mobile devices, has been updated. The beta 2 version adds support for RSS viewing, podcast downloading over WiFi and video support, when combined with TCPMP. “Now you can turn a Pocket PC into a wireless-enabled “Video iPod” with excellent podcast support,” notes Wes Henderson at the […]

Tourism Ireland and Aer Lingus has announced that it plans to send three winners to Ireland to podcast.”Tell us why you would like to travel to Ireland and learn to be a good podcaster for Tourism Ireland‚Äôs Your Very Own Ireland contest and you could be one of three winners of a one-week tour to […]

According to Chortle, a UK comedy guide, the BBC has dropped a popular podcast by comedian Russell Brand after the he refused to allow them to edit out controversial material. The BBC wanted to cut from his podcast a segment involving disabled basketball player Ade Adepitan. ‚ÄòI think we could have found a version that […]

Podcasting is increasingly a threat to the survival of satellite radio providers Sirius and XM. Both companies have faced increasing losses, even as their subscriber bases have grown.Sirius lost $237.8 million for the period compared with a loss of $177.6 million during second quarter of 2005. XM Satellite Radio on July 27 reported a second-quarter […]

Losses are growing at the two leaders in satellite radio, XM and Sirius. Sirius lost $237.8 million for the period compared with a loss of $177.6 million during second quarter of 2005. XM Satellite Radio on July 27 reported a second-quarter loss of $231.7 million, up from losses of $148.8 million a year ago. One […]

Audio Engineering is distributing a free audio loop editing program, Loop Editor, using a variation on podcasting, appcasting.Loop Editor is a simple (and free) audio loop editor application for OS X. Loop Editor supports all audio file formats that support loop markers. The idea behind appcasting is that RSS newsfeeds with enclosures are used to […]

In July, the daily reach of YouTube pulled ahead of MySpace. YouTube’s growth has been explosive, going from nowhere a year a go to becoming the sixteenth most popular site on the Web, as measured by Alexa. The tremendous growth reflects increasing penetration of broadband, more vloggers creating independent video content and YouTube’s ability to […]

Most women would choose a new iPod over a shopping spree at a clothing store and even over a romantic evening with someone special, according to Women‚Äôs Watch: Girls Gone Wired, a study of women and technology by Oxygen Media. According to Oxygen, a media network for woman, the study shows that the technology gender […]

Public radio producer Stephen HIll, host of the popular electronic/space music show Hearts of Space, thinks that High Definition Radio, a standard for near CD-quality radio, is dead on arrival, and that podcasting and other Internet audio options dug its grave.”HD reminds me of DCC (Digital Compact Cassette),” notes Hill, “another attempt by a mature […]

Metallica, one of the most visible holdouts in the world of digital music, is now in the iTunes Music Store. Metallica famously sued Napster and asked that hundreds of Napster users that had been trading Metallica songs on the network be banned. Metallica’s Lars Ulrich also provided a statement to the US Senate on the […]