The Bob Moog Foundation for Electronic Music has introduced a podcast, the Moog Foundation Podcast. The first episode (MP3) features an introduction to the foundation and a look at the band Perpetual Groove, a synth rock band from Athens, Georgia.Moog, the creator of the Moog synthesizer and a pioneer of electronic music, died last year […]

About.com, a New York Times property, has launched a sponsored medical podcast about heartburn and acid reflux.Each podcast will be approximately three to five minutes long and will be introduced monthly. The series is the first of its kind on About.com. The series is sponsored by AstraZeneca, a pharmaceutical company that makes Prilosec and Nexium […]

Pharmaceutical companies are rushing to increase their spending on Internet advertising. According to an eMarketer report, drug companies’ Internet spending will increase by about 25% in this year alone, to $780 million, as marketers shift from consumer mass marketing to more targeted opportunities on the Internet. By 2008, online spending is expected rise to $1.3 […]

Hundertelf, an Internet company in Cologne, Germany, has launched a new mobile podcasting service, Cellcast. The service lets registered users call from their cell phones, record a message or song and make it available on the Web. The phone calls are recorded and converted to MP3 files, which can be stored on the Cellcast server […]

The International Podcasting Expo is inviting podcasters, podcasting professionals, and podcasting software and services companies to present seminars, workshops and podcasts during the October 20-22, 2006 online event. Presenters receive an online Exhibitor Booth, 20-person audio conference room during the Expo, and a 2-CD set of all Expo recordings. All seminars are conducted and recorded […]

Break.com, a popular digital entertainment network for men, has announced that it has launched video syndication tools that let content creators distribute their videos to iPods and Sony PSPs.Break.com audience members can now receive automatic updates from their favorite content creators, as well as easily migrate their personal and viral video collections to any device. […]

HBO has released one of its original documentary films, the cautionary Too Hot To Handle, in its entirety as a free podcast. The documentary, which offers a guide to the effects of global warming in the United States, is available as a four-part download. Too Hot To Handle features contributions from leading scientists in the […]

GoDaddy, a popular domain registrar and web hosting service, has introduced a new service for podcasters, GoDaddy.com Quick Podcast. The service is designed to let users easily publish and manage their shows.”As North America’s largest hosting provider, Go Daddy is in a strong position to support the podcasting community. I’m a podcaster myself with my […]

The Lincolnshire (UK) city council is offering robo-podcasts, podcasts that are automatically generated using text-to-speech software. The city’s offerings include a news podcast and a jobs podcast.A recent podcast about Authentic Flamenco From Andalusia (MP3) demonstrates both the capabilities and limitations of using text-to-speech software to create podcasts. The technology lets organizations podcast automatically and […]

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 […]