The Da Vinci Code movie doesn’t open until this Friday, but podcasters are already weighing in with information and opinions on the film adaptation of Dan Brown’s controversial book, described by novelist Salman Rushdie as “typewriting.”The Scotsman News is running a week-long series of video podcasts taking a look at the Rosslyn Chapel, which features […]

Imagine an iPod that could play for 100 millennia without repeating a single song. Science fiction? Not exactly. Dr. Jonathan Spanier from Drexel University and his research colleagues and the University of Pennsylvania are predicting that nanotechnology will allow computer memory so dense that a cubic centimeter contains 12.8 million gigabytes (GB) of information.

The Republican National Committee (GOP) has announced a “grassroots” effort to help support the President and republican candidates, the GOP House Party.To help promote the GOP House Party idea, the GOP is giving away five special edition iPod videos to the parties that raise the most money. The GOP site lets users create a MyGOP […]

Real Networks CEO Rob Glaser made some comments recently that are sure to generate controversy, suggesting that half the music on iPods is illegal and that the music industry made a mistake dealing with Apple. “The music industry has made a mistake, not by agreeing to Apple’s fixed-price level, which is what gets all the […]

Wikinews, a free newspaper project of the Wikimedia Foundation, has introduced the Wikinews Print Edition Podcast. The podcast is a newsfeed that lets users subscribe to WikiNews and have a PDF version of the newspaper delivered each day. Wikinews is produced by a group of volunteer journalists whose mission is “to create a diverse community […]

According to New Delhi Television (NDTV), a large Indian news and entertainment media company, urban India is jumping on the podcast bandwagon. “The podcasting arena is very democratic. It’s open to anyone, anybody can upload podcasts to the web and people will come and listen to it. If they like it, they will leave you […]

The UK’s Daily Telegraph, one of the first newspapers to podcast, has redesigned its site. Notable is prominent featuring of the sites podcasts: The placement highlights that fact that some newspapers are beginning to see podcasting and video podcasting as a way to branch into media that has previously been dominated by radio and television. […]

Podcasting startup Waxxi is kicking things off with an event featuring the authors of Naked Conversations, a book on business blogging. The event, described as an “interactive podcast”, will feature Robert Scoble, popular blogger and Microsoft Tech Evangelist, and author Shel Israel. The event, scheduled to be recorded Saturday, May 20th, will let people listen […]

ABC has published the first episodes of four prime-time television shows for on-demand downloading, including current episodes of Desperate Housewives, Lost, Commander in Chief and Alias. The trial was announced in March. The videos display in a Flash-based interface. Users can jump ahead to later in the video, but can’t skip advertisements. The shows are […]

Mac OS Rumors is reporting that the next release of Mac OS X, code name Leopard, will include a BitTorrent client. BitTorrent support could be beneficial to podcasters, because it could reduce the cost of distribution of large media files by using the popular peer-to-peer file sharing network. According to the report, Mac OS X […]