Apple today announced that it sold over one million iPhone 3GS models through Sunday, June 21, the third day after its launch. “Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “With over 50,000 applications available from Apple’s revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever.” The new iPhone 3GS […]

PAB2009, Podcasters Across Borders 2009, kicks off today in Kingston, Ontario. The three day event, running from June 19th to June 21st at The Holiday Inn Waterfront, offers sessions focused on audio and video podcasting, but also on using social media and building new media-based communities. Most of all, the event is about meeting other […]

Your living room television is the next new platform for developers. And, while Apple is squandering its Apple TV lead by treating Internet television as a “hobby”, Boxee is opening the platform up to developers, offering an API and kicking off a developer challenge. Boxee’s move is resulting in an explosion of content on the […]

VIdeo search company SnapStream this week unveiled its new search tool, TV Trends. The new TV Trends utility tallies and graphs mentions of any term uttered on national U.S. television. TV Trends users can enter up to five keywords, and gets back a graph showing you the relative frequency of mentions of those words on […]

On Sunday, American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were sentenced by a North Korean court to 12 years of “reform through labour” for an unspecified “grave crime” and for allegedly entering the country illegally, according to Reporters Without Borders. The two journalists for Current TV were arrested in March, The Guardian reports, while filming […]

Online book mega-retailer Amazon.com today announced the “Your Amazon Ad Contest.”  The competition solicits customer-created television commercials, the best of which will win a $10,000 Amazon gift card. “One need only look at the customer reviews for Tuscan Whole Milk and the Three Wolf Moon T-shirt to see how many creative and talented customers we […]

New media and cheap technology is making it easy for anyone to podcast, video podcast and create all types of media for the Web. It’s a mistake, though, to think that this revolution is limited to low-budget indies. Check out this concert video for Nine Inch Nails‘ performance of Survivalism, live in Atlanta, GA, May […]

Internet users viewed a record 16.8 billion online videos in April, representing an increase of 16 percent…..since March!

Independent studio Ag8 has announced Purefold – a series of linked 5- to 10-minute web videos inspired by Blade Runner. Purefold won’t be a sequel or prequel to Blade Runner, but is a new set of stories set in the same world. “It’s…..based on the same themes as Blade Runner,” says Ag8’s David Bausola. “It’s […]

Rocketboom, a long-running daily video podcast, is looking for new talent to anchor the New York-based program, and its new West Coast desk. Rocketboom creator Andrew Baron posted the two job openings today on Internet classifieds site Craigslist under “tv video radio jobs.” Responsibilities for the anchor jobs include “both appearing on camera and contributing […]