CNet is reporting that they learned from a customer service manager at Cingular that Apple’s iPhone is scheduled for release on June 11.

That date is the first day of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, scheduled to be held in San Francisco from June 11 through June 15.

The iPhone’s unique design has generated an unprecedented amount of buzz for a cell phone. Cingular has received about 1 million inquiries about Apple upcoming iPhone, AT&T Chief Operating Officer Randall Stephenson said on Tuesday.

“One million people have asked us to call when this phone is available,” Stephenson said in his keynote speech at the CTIA wireless technology conference.

Apple today announced it will be offering Major League Baseball video highlights for the 2007 season on the iTunes Store. MLB video on iTunes will include a daily 25 minute MLB.com Daily Rewind highlight show and two weekly Games of the Week, featuring full versions of the best games from the National and American Leagues.

Customers will be able to download individual episodes of MLB.com Daily Rewind and each Game of the Week for $1.99, or purchase a Multi-Pass for a month of Daily Rewind shows for $7.99 or a Season Pass for every Game of the Week at just $19.99.

It’s 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we’re going to do our best to hook you up a great free music podcast.

Tony Steidler-Dennison is a self-described Linux geek, blues freak and lifelong Cardinals fan. He’s also a great example of a podcaster using his Web and media chops to share his love for musicians and their musical chops.

Steidler-Dennison hosts The Roadhouse, a podcast of “The finest blues you’ve never heard.” The podcast features little-known blues bands, and each episode takes a look at a featured artist.

You can preview The Roadhouse podcast below. If you like it, there are over 100 more free blues podcast episodes to check out.

You can subscribe to The Roadhouse by adding this feed URL to your podcast software:
http://roadhousepodcast.com/feed/

Miglia Technology has announced TVMax+, a content collection hub, for use with iPod, AppleTV and Apple computers.

TVMax+ lets you view TV shows on every screen in your home, from your living room to your iPod to your Mac. TVMax+ also doubles as a digital TV tuner, so you can watch, pause and record TV shows to watch exactly as you want choose.

“TVMax+ offers the missing link between TV or Video content and Apple TV or iPod,” said Eric Ferraz, CTO, Miglia Technology. “This is a digital hub enabling you to connect a full range of video devices using the Coaxial, Composite S-Video inputs. Transform your Mac into a personal video recorder or capture your VHS, Camcorder tapes or DVDs.”

We‚Äôre on the downhill side of 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News.We‚Äôve talked about free guitar music, free classical music, free dj mixes, free hip-hop and even some brutal, unrelenting noise. We haven’t talked about using free music to change the world, though.

Electronica artist Ryuichi Sakamoto has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the risks of nuclear energy, Stop Rokkasho, which features a podcast with free music tracks and videos by Sakamoto, Thomas Dolby and others.

The Rokkasho-mura reprocessing plant in Japan’s Aomori Prefecture opened for testing on March 31st, 2006. Less than two weeks later, 40 liters of radioactive water containing plutonium and uranium were spilled inside the plant.

The Stop-Rokkasho podcast features music, video, photos, art, information and interviews to help spread the word about both the Rokkasho plant and the dangers of reprocessing in general. The podcast is a collection of free music tracks.

You can preview the podcast below, or subscribe to it by adding this feed URL to your podcasting software:
http://stop-rokkasho.org/av-rss2.php

Apple today announced Complete My Album, a new iTunes service that lets you turn individual track purchase into a complete album purchase at a reduced price by giving you a full 99 cent credit for every track they have previously purchased from that album.

“Music fans can now round out their music collections by upgrading their singles into complete albums with just one click, and get full credit for those songs they have previously purchased from iTunes,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. “Complete My Album is a wonderful new way that iTunes helps customers grow and enjoy their music collections.”

Advertisers in the UK are spending more on Internet advertising than on newspapers ads. Spending on UK internet advertising surged in 2006, overtaking newspaper ads for the first time, according to a new report from the UK Internet Advertising Bureau.

Online advertising expenditure jumped 41.2% to £2.01bn during the year. In contrast, spending on national newspaper ads grew just 0.2% to £1.9bn, taking a 10.7% share of the market.

“With almost all expenditure on traditional media in decline, the upward momentum of the internet reflects a new era … which is driven by high-speed broadband take-up and user-generated content,” according to the report.

It‚Äôs 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. All month, we’re looking at free music podcasts and finding great music, music that fu**ing matters and even a little unrelenting noise.

There’s lots of screaming, and it’s rough around the edges, but it doesn’t get more raw, real or direct than the GaragePunk podcast.

Here’s how they describe the podcast:

The GaragePunk Podcast is a network of home-made, low-budget ‚Äúradio show‚Äù-style programs that focus on wild and obscure garage rock, proto punk, surf, R&B, broken blues, powerpop, punk rock, new wave/no wave, noise, and trashy, primitive rock‚Äôn’roll from the past, present, and future. Our show hosts are ordinary people ‚Äî music fans just like yourself. Not professional disc jockeys. We just have an interest in music and culture that is anything BUT ordinary.

It’s another example of podcasts featuring music that you’re not likely to hear on mainstream radio.

Preview the GaragePunk podcast below, or subscribe to it by adding this URL to your podcast software:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/GaragePunkPodcasts

Napster, the music service with 9 lives, has announced a new offering to new or existing AT&T wireless and high-speed Internet customers, giving them unlimited free access for one year to the over three million songs in Napster to Go’s music library.

Subscribers will be able to download and organize these songs, create playlists for compatible wireless phones and sync the songs to compatible portable MP3 players.

Compatible MP3 players include the Napster MP3 player, Samsung YP-Z5, Creative Zen Vision: M, Toshiba Gigabet, and iRiver, but not iPods.
This one year offer will save Napster to Go subscribers $180. It officially begins on April 1, 2007.

A controversial political parody of Apple’s 1984 ad that portrays Hillary Clinton as a newspeak-spewing “big-brother” is getting an extension on its 15 minutes of fame, courtesy of rights owners to George Orwell’s novel.

The Hillary Clinton 1984 ad is the work of Phil De Vellis, who has said that he made the anti-Hillary ad “to show that an individual citizen can affect the [political] process.”

Rosenblum Productions, owners of the television and movie rights to Orwell‚Äôs 1984 novel, says that De Vellis’ explanation only goes so far.

“The political ad copies a prior commercial infringement of our copyright,” said Rosenblum.