Wizzard Software announced today the acquisition of a second podcasting company, Blast Podcast, an podcast advertising and hosting service provider. Previously, Wizzard announced an agreement to purchase Switchpod.com, a podcast hosting service. Wizzard plans to combine its experience in the area of speech recognition technology into Blast Podcast’s business plans. Wizzard will incorporate its server-based […]

The University of California, Berkeley, announced today that it is delivering educational content, including course lectures and symposia, free of charge through Google Video. UC Berkeley will be the first university with its own page on the Google Video Web site, campus officials said. The campus is making more than 250 hours of content available […]

PodTech, a podcasting startup focusing on technology, has introduced ScobleShow, a video podcast hosted by former Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble. According to Scoble, the new site is “broken” and “the page isn’t the prettiest”, but based on the fact that the server appears to be straining under the initial load, there appears to be a […]

Yahoo! and Current TV, a pioneer in viewer created content for television and the Web, have partnered to deliver video content to Web with the launch of the Yahoo! Current Network. According to the companies, the site combines the best in user submitted videos plus professional, studio-produced content to air side by side in a […]

Actor turned video blogger Dan McVicar, aka Clarke Garrison on The Bold and the Beautiful, has been named a host of the Vloggies, an award show for the rising stars of new media. McVicar will host host the Vloggies, an award show for the rising stars of new media held in San Francisco on November […]

Disney has sold 125,000 digital copies of films through Apple Computer’s iTunes store in less than a week, generating $1 million, Disney chief executive Robert Iger said Tuesday. iTunes lets users purchase movies online that can be downloaded for viewing on a computer or on video iPods. “Clearly customers are saying to us they want […]

YouTube today announced its first major music promotion, the YouTube Underground contest, and a major sponsorship deal with Cingular Wireless. YouTube is calling all unsigned musicians to enter. Bands can submit original videos that best represent their talents from October 2 through October 18 and the YouTube community will vote on their favorite YouTube Underground […]

Apple‚Äôs recent addition of Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, to their board of directors has led to speculation about whether this will lead to closer collaboration between Apple and Google. ‚ÄúIs it possible that when iTV ships next year, you may also be able to choose a menu item called Google Video, […]

Wingspan has just announced iLoad +, an add-on for the company’s iLoad product, that transfers audio and video content from your cable or satellite box directly to an iPod. It’s also great with puppies and appears to have aphrodisial properties. Wingspan’s iLoad device copies CDs to an iPod at high speed without using a computer […]

UNESCO, The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, is launching a call for submissions of video podcast proposals for a series of production grants. UNESCO plans grants of up to $3000 to support the UN video podcasts. The organization wishes to produce and distribute a series of video podcasts for all audiences, but especially […]