Seattle-based Divvycast this week unveiled a podcasting portal dedicated to “connecting musicians with advertisers.” Divvycast lets musicians create and upload podcasts and gain sponsorship from interested advertisers. Musicians can generate income by posting these podcasts with the top podcast aggregators and social networking sites across the internet. Through music clips, live concert recordings, and interviews, […]

At the Podcast and Portable Media Expo, Samson was showing off its H4 Handy Digital Recorder. The device fits in your palm and is designed to record live musical performances, interviews, podcasts, meetings, classes and seminars. The H4 can record 24-bit/96 kHz digital audio as well as in MP3 format with bitrates up to 320kbps. […]

F≈çnpods has announced a new platform designed to provide access to podcasts and other digital audio content through mobile phones The service provides users with PC and Internet content optimized for an on-the-go mobile experience, and lets users access it from a landline, mobile or VoIP phone. A Web-based interface lets users create and customize […]

At the Podcast & Portable Media Expo, held Sept 29-30 in Ontario, California, Expo organizers announced the winners of their ‚ÄúBest of Show‚Äù awards for the 2006 event. Winners included Podcast Station, for Best “All-Inclusive” Podcasting Software; Adobe Audition, for Best PC Podcast Audio Editing Software; and Bias Peak Pro 5 for best Mac Podcast […]

San Francisco Opera and MobileCast Media have announced a joint podcast project, the first of which features an interview with opera icon Deborah Voigt. San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley’s interview with Deborah Voigt was recorded live on the stage of San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House, offers a personal glimpse into the life […]

Apple has played a major role in the acceptance of portable media players and the adoption of podcasting. They’ve delivered a software/hardware combination with iTunes and iPods that works easily and seemlessly, and iPods have been wildly successful as a result. Nevertheless, the state of portable media could benefit from more competition. It’s with this […]

At the Podcasting and Portable Media Expo, held last weekend in Ontario, California, we had the opportunity to talk with Andrew Michael Baron and Joanne Colan of Rocketboom, right, before they headed out to LA for the evening. As you can tell from the photo, Baron and Colan looked exuberant to be at the Expo. […]

Several weeks ago, we noted that Microsoft’s Zune announcement was disappointing, in large part because its wireless capabilites missed the mark, being tailored more towards selling music rather than the interests of users. Now, Zunester David Caulton has posted an explanation of the portable music player’s wireless capabilities, noting that peoples’ comments indicate that “the […]

Cingular Wireless and Melodeo today announced the availability of Melodeo’s Mobilcast podcast service. Cingular customers can now search and listen to thousands of podcasts on their Cingular phone. “Mobilcast further enables the mobile news and entertainment capabilities of your cell phone by providing quick and simple access to podcast favorites while on the go,” said […]

Closing out the official activities on the first day of the Podcast and Portable Media Expo in Ontario, California, was the second annual Podcast Awards Ceremony. Previously announced winners of the PME Awards for Podcast of the Year were the folks who produce Grape Radio. In keeping with the gravitas of the occasion, the winners […]