RadioShack has announced that, starting Dec 14th, it will offer an ultra-lightweight, mobile netbook Internet device with integrated 3G wireless technology. The Acer Aspire one netbook is priced at $99.99 for customers who sign up for a qualifying two-year AT&T DataConnect mobile broadband service agreement with plans starting at $60 a month.  The netbook has a […]

Podcast network Blubrry has announced a new mobile version of their site: Today we are proud to announce the availability of our mobile site. You can try it out by visiting m.blubrry.com. This is our first release and in coming weeks we will have extended capability. Check out the newest content or search for specific content or […]

The WordPress team created this video to highlight the new features of WordPress 2.7. Much of the focus in WordPress 2.7 has been on usability, which should make it faster than ever to work with WordPress. Here’s a list of what’s new: XMLRPC Comments API (Ticket 7446) Keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation (Ticket 7643) Sticky […]

The New York Times takes a look today at some of the people that are making real money on YouTube: Cory Williams, 27, a YouTube producer in California, agrees. Mr. Williams, known as smpfilms on YouTube, has been dreaming up online videos since 2005, and he said his big break came in September 2007 with a music […]

The news was not unexpected, yet somehow was still surprising when it came today. The two big (for-profit) new media conferences, Blog World Expo and the New Media Expo are combining into a new annual event, The Blog World & New Media Expo. The hybrid conference inaugural run will be at the Las Vegas Convention […]

GOSHone claims that his video forNewteknowledge is the first music video shot entirely on an iPhone. It was filmed using a jailbroken iPhone 3G using Cycorder. Edited using After Effects, since Final Cut didn’t like the resolution from Cycorder. The video itself isn’t especially notable, but the fact that it was shot an an iPhone is.  The […]

Internet conference-call and podcasting company TalkShoe recently announced enhancements to its Talkcasting service. TalkShoe is a service that lets users host a “community call,” in which others participate via computer or phone (text and voice chat), which is recorded for later publication as a blog post/podcast. Previously, TalkShoe required that calls be scheduled in advance […]

Want a safe job in journalism? Work in television. The Committee To Protect Journalists reports that, for the first time, more online journalists are jailed worldwide today than journalists working in any other medium. In its annual census of imprisoned journalists, the Committee found that 45 percent of all media workers jailed worldwide are bloggers, […]

Wizzard Media announced today that video embedded on internet websites using the Wizzard Player can now be viewed on the iPhone and iPod Touch. In the past, Apple devices, due to their lack of Flash support, have not been able to access most embedded Web video. When visiting a video website using the iPhone, the […]

IODA, the Independent Online Distribution Alliance, has a nice mix of new independent holiday music on the latest episode of its IODA Promonet Podcast. IODA is a digital distributor of independent music of every genre, from thousands of different record labels, and promotes that music to retailers, distributors, bloggers, and podcasters through its Promonet service. […]