CNBC has an interesting interview with Steve Jobs, in which he confirms our take away from his MacWorld announcements: Apple is killing off the DVD: Don’t underestimate the power of the new iTunes movie rental service either. I asked Jobs whether this meant the format war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD was over, with Apple the […]

Sprint has announced that it will be cutting 4,000 jobs and closing 8 percent of its stores: The company said it would cut 125 stores and eliminate more than 4,000 sales outlets within retailers.¬† Sprint expects the measures to trim labor costs by an annual rate of $700 million to $800 million by the end […]

Seesmic is a web-based video sharing platform that is designed to make posting short videos to the web trivially easy. The site can be used to create video blogs, engage in video dialogs with other users or to quickly create content to embed at other sites.The BBC has a seesgasmic take on the site: It’s […]

Revision3, the video podcasting network launched by the guys from Digg, has introduced a new weekly show, The Digg Reel, that offers 15-minutes of highlights from the highest-rated videos on Digg for that week. “There’s so much crap out there, it’s great to have the Digg community filter out the best, but no one can […]

Tooble is a new program for OS X that automatically downloads, converts and imports any YouTube video to play on your video iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, or even on your computer with iTunes. Tooble’s browser lets you search YouTube, play videos, select the ones you want and then download them and load them into iTunes. Here’s […]

Writer’s Guild of America members plan to launch Strike TV, an Internet fund-raiser to help members affected by the strike. Set to launch in February, the online channel will feature original video shows created by working professionals in the TV and Film industry. “Strike TV videos will not be about the strike,” according to the […]

We reported earlier today that Robert Scoble was leaving PodTech to move to Fast Company. In a post on his blog, Scoble explains why he is making the move: “I don’t love doing much except for interviewing and blogging and my family. I’ve run the books at UserLand Software. I hated that. I’ve tried managing […]

Former Microsoft blogger and Naked Conversations author Robert Scoble has announced that he’s leaving podcasting startup PodTech to take a newly created position at Fast Company: First of all, thanks to John Furrier, James McCormick, and the entire PodTech team. I grew a lot over the past year due to the opportunities they gave me […]

Apple today announced iTunes Movie Rentals featuring movies from all the major movie studios including: 20th Century Fox The Walt Disney Studios Warner Bros. Paramount Universal Studios Home Entertainment Sony Pictures Entertainment Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Lionsgate New Line Cinema Users can rent movies for as low as $2.99 and watch them on their Macs or PCs, […]

Apple today unveiled all new software for Apple TV that allows movie fans to rent movies on the iTunes Store directly from their widescreen TV, and lowered the price of Apple TV to $229. With iTunes Movie Rentals and Apple TV, users can just click a button on their remote to rent movies from a […]