From Dean Whitbread, Chairman of the UK Podcasters Association, comes this news of negotiations for the WIPO Broadcast Treaty: “[I]n Geneva this week, so concerted has been the resistance to the much disliked WIPO Broadcast Treaty in its current form, with even the US delegation finding serious fault with it, that at several points today […]

Revision3, the San Francisco startup behind the Internet TV shows Diggnation and XLR8RTV, has raised $8 million more from investors. Revision3 is one of several companies pioneering commercial video podcast networks. Their shows can be viewed online or downloaded for viewing on portable media players such as iPods or devices like the Apple TV. The […]

Media hosting/publishing service provider Podango has announced that a beta version of its P2 Platform is now available. The P2 platform’s feature set includes publishing tools for audio, video, and blogging, metric monitoring tools, search engine optimization, integrated advertising and the ability to embed the player in other sites. The end-user experience includes easy subscription […]

Thousands of U.S. commercial webcasters plan to go silent Tuesday, June 26, to draw attention to an impending royalty rate increase that could threaten the viability of stations that broadcast mainstream music. Earlier in the year, the United States Copyright Royalty Board announced new royalty rates for webcasting traditionally licensed music, to be effective from […]

Iconic punk rocker/new wave singer/songwriter Elvis Costello has introduced a podcast that offers fans a candid look at the first ten years of his career. The Elvis Costello Podcast will be a ten-part weekly series running through August. The podcast is tied in with a new best of CD release. Costello shares stories with producer […]

80 percent of the U.K. online population (age 15 or older who have accessed the Internet from either a home or a work computer), watched an Internet video in April 2007, compared to 76 percent in the U.S., 79 percent in France, and 70 percent in Germany, according to figures released today by comScore. The […]

Voices.com, an online marketplace for voiceover services, is covering the basics of podcasting this week at their Vox Daily blog. For their “Podcasting Week 2007”, they plan to cover listening to podcasts as well as the business side of podcast production. Details are available at the Vox Daily blog.

Apple today announced that the iPhone will deliver significantly longer battery life when it ships on June 29 than was originally estimated when iPhone was unveiled in January. The iPhone will feature up to 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback or 24 hours of audio playback. […]

iPhone Developers Camp is an upcoming BarCamp-style gathering, to develop web-based applications and optimize web sites for iPhone. It is a non-commercial event, organized by volunteers, with attendance free to all. By the completion of the weekend event, a number of iPhone-ready web applications and web sites will be launched to the public. The event […]

The Bush administration on Thursday attacked a congressional bill that would help protect the First Amendment rights of news gathers, including bloggers and podcasters. According to a U.S. Department of Justice official, the Free Flow of Information Act (pdf) would pose a grave threat to national security and federal criminal investigations by protecting the free […]