TiVo today introduced version 2.6 of TiVo Desktop for Windows, adding deeper support for Web videos and podcasts. Features include: You can now transfer all your downloaded Web Video from your PC to your TiVo DVR so you can watch them on your TV. Automatic conversions of your TiVoToGo transfers to support portable devices that […]

Podcasting startup PodShow has laid off one-third of its staff, according to a report Valleywag: PodShow, the San Francisco-based online-video network best known for launching the career of CNET’s Natali Del Conte, is laying off about 20 employees, or as much as 30 percent of its staff. “There are no secrets, only information you don’t […]

YouTube has announced that it’s going “higher def”: We’re making these streams available on certain videos, based upon the source file uploaded to us, and over time you’ll find a greater percentage of the library is available to view in higher quality. This feature applies to all eligible videos uploaded from the YouTube community, and […]

A story in the Muncie, Indiana Star Press serves as a reminder that there’s more to podcasting than “monetization”: When Ben Ranfeld, Liz Ranfeld and Paul VanDemark decided early last year to start a podcast centered solely on one topic - the movie The Big Lebowski – they figured they faced one major problem. “We didn’t […]

Podcasting network Wizzard Media has announced that it is is working with European lottery site PlayUKinternet.com on what they are calling the first international geo-targeted audio podcast advertising campaign.The three month campaign is aimed at audiences around the globe in Australia, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Italy, encompassing over half a million ad impressions delivered across […]

Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow is releasing his latest book, True Names, as a free audio podcast. The book, a novella co-authored with Benjamin Rosenbaum, involves galactic wars between vast, post-Singularity intelligences that are competing to corner the universe‚Äôs supply of computation before the heat-death of the universe. Here’s what Doctorow has to say about the […]

Apple Japan is researching the iPod nano for defects after one of the popular digital music players reportedly shot out sparks while recharging. A defect is suspected in the lithium-ion battery in the iPod Nano, model number MA099J/A. The problem surfaced in January in Kanagawa Prefecture southwest of Tokyo, and Apple reported the problem to […]

Natural/organic supermarket chain Whole Foods Market, is launching Whole Earth Generation, a video podcast series dedicated to raising environmental awareness among young people. The podcast project is beginning with a search for six “fresh-faced personalities” aged 8 to 17, to be auditioned as hosts of this green-themed series. Children from all over the United States […]

Every day, at least one news item makes us pause, and say, “Well, duh” (as in, “yeah, tell me something I didn’t already know.”). Our “duh!” moment of today comes courtesy of a study on social networking by new media market research firm Grunwald Associates. Their scholarly finding: kids aged 9 – 17 are paying […]

CBS Interactive, a division of old-media television network CBS, announded yesterday the debut of MOBLOGIC, a new daily web video show. MOBLOGIC, which begins airing episodes today, paints itself as offering “news and politics with attitude.” The show will be hosted by Lindsay Campbell, the former host of video podcast Wallstrip (which started out as […]