Podcast software update: The latest version of Quick News, a news reader Palm OS, features support for podcasts.

The $14.95 app lets users download and read news stories and podcasts using either HotSync or a direct Internet connection.

InfoWorld has announced a technology marketing breakfast discussion on podcasting best practices.

The event takes place on May 16 at the Roosevelt Hotel, located at Madison Avenue & 45th Street in New York City, from 8:15 am to 10:00 am ET. InfoWorld’s breakfast event is open at no charge.

The winners of the 10th Annual Webby Awards have been announced. Yahoo! Podcasts was the winner in the Podcasts category.

This is the first year that a Podcasts Webby is being awarded.

Winners will be honored at a June 12th gala in New York City.

Orange Lounge Radio, an internet radio station and podcast dedicated to “what gamers really want to know”, has announced the launch of a spin-off site, E3ONPSP.

The new site is dedicated to bringing the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) experience to the web browser in Sony’s Playstation Portable (PSP), and will feature news and podcasts from the show. While the site is formatted for optimal browsing with a P3P, it will work with any standard Web browser.

E3ONPSP also features P3P-formatted maps of the show floor, so that P3P users can find their way to their favorite booth with just a few button clicks.

Orange Lounge Radio plans to update the site frequently during E3, and then update it after the show has ended with additional videos and images that the staff completes after the show.

via E3ONPSP.COM

Wikinews, a free newspaper project of the Wikimedia Foundation, has introduced the Wikinews Print Edition Podcast. The podcast is a newsfeed that lets users subscribe to WikiNews and have a PDF version of the newspaper delivered each day.

Wikinews is produced by a group of volunteer journalists whose mission is “to create a diverse community where citizens from around the globe (including you) can collaborate to report the news on a wide variety of current events.”

Actress and environmental advocate Daryl Hannah is looking outside of traditional media to connect with an audience that she feels that mainstream media ignoring. She’s using a video blog (Daryl Hannah’s Love Life) and indie documentaries to cover what’s happening in the area of green lifestyles and “extreme activism.”

“The fact that there’s not any really progressive green show on television right now is bizarre. There are a lot of people in the TV industry who are interested in the field, but when I approach them about doing something, everyone’s like, ‘Oh, it’s a niche market.’ Well that’s bull–.”

According to New Delhi Television (NDTV), a large Indian news and entertainment media company, urban India is jumping on the podcast bandwagon.

“The podcasting arena is very democratic. It’s open to anyone, anybody can upload podcasts to the web and people will come and listen to it. If they like it, they will leave you messages,” says Vitek Goyel, an Indian podcast listener.

The NDTV article looks at both podcasters and podcast listeners.

Aditya and Abhishek Kumar host an “indi” talk show, the Indicast.

“I was wondering why would someone take 15 minutes from their day to listen to two ordinary guys talk about ordinary things. But I was surprised when I read the messages,” says Abhishek.

The UK’s Daily Telegraph, one of the first newspapers to podcast, has redesigned its site. Notable is prominent featuring of the sites podcasts:

The placement highlights that fact that some newspapers are beginning to see podcasting and video podcasting as a way to branch into media that has previously been dominated by radio and television.

Daily Telegraph

Akamai Technologies, a leading content delivery network service, has introduced a podcasting platform and “business model support infrastructure” for podcasting.

In February of this year, PodShow, the podcasting startup founded by Adam Curry, announced a partnership with Limelight Networks to create the Podcast Delivery Network. Akamai’s announcement helps establish podcast delivery as a legitimate corporate service offering.

Nokia is working on a podcasting app for its S60 N Series smartphones.

The initial release focuses on providing a mobile podcasting client that will be able to manual and automatic updates of podcasts over 3G or WLAN networks.

However, Nokia plans to develope the application to be a mobile podcast publishing platform.