The LA Opera has committed to producing an additional fourteen episodes of its Behind the Curtain at the LA Opera podcast series, based on enthusiasm for the initial episodes. Listeners to the first 4 episodes, which featured an inside look at LA Opera’s Manon, outnumbered actual seats at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion by more than […]

There’s no¬†word yet¬†on whether or not Internet video fans are good looking or not, but a study by Nielsen Analytics and Scarborough Research has found that¬†Internet television attracts a young, educated and wealthy audience. Even more promising for the future of Internet TV is the fact that offering shows via the Internet doesn‚Äôt cut into […]

Kiptronic, a podcast advertising company, has announced the completion of a $4 million round of Series A funding, led by Blueprint Ventures and Prism VentureWorks with participation from existing angel investors. Kiptronic provides targeted ad insertion for content publishers delivering video and audio to disconnected devices such as iPods, mobile phones, and laptops. Kiptronic’s technology […]

HDNet’s Mark Cuban is skeptical about the future prospects of BitTorrent technology for the distribution of large media files. He cites several reasons: Conflicting Clients. There are a ton of clients, with the number growing all the time. Although they work on basically the same source code and protocols, they all install and operate as […]

Massachusetts‚Äô Governor Deval Patrick is joining the ranks of political podcasters. Patrick is planning to launch his podcast at the end of the week. The governor will record three-to-five minutes of remarks, then making them available for downloading from Mass-dot-gov, the state’s official Web site. Although the details are still being finalized, Patrick says he […]

Warner, Sony, Melodeo and Access China Media Solutions today announced they are working together to develop and distribute world-class solutions for delivering mobile music and multimedia entertainment to wireless customers throughout China and other Asia Pacific marketplaces and beyond. Melodeo is known to many in the world of podcasting for its mobile podcasting offerings. Access […]

RM has introduced Podium, a podcasting tool designed for educational institutions. Podium is designed to allow students and teachers to communicate by creating enhanced podcasts, which incorporate audio, text and images. The tool, available for Windows-based systems, provides simple input fields for podcast and episode names, as well as credits. Images can be added to […]

At the 2007 Winter NAMM show, Alesis introduced their USB Mic Podcasting Kit. According to the company, the USB Mic Podcasting Kit allows even the most inexperienced users to quickly record audio into the computer and have their podcast heard on the Internet. Just plug the USB microphone into your computer – the microphone is […]

The guys from the Inside Home Recording, Paul Garay and Derek K. Miller, are at the Winter NAMM show and podcasting their take on the most interesting gear introductions of the year. The Winter NAMM show is a huge trade show, held annually in Annaheim, California, that covers recording technology and music gear.

BePodder, a media aggregator and podcast client for BeOS, has been updated to version 1.2. New in this version are Atom and RDF support for example and a new “lite” version, with some limitations, and an unlimited Pro version. The Pro version costs 15 euro. 20% of each copy sold gets donated to the Haiku […]