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Mar 3rd, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Digital Music, General
Nine Inch Nails is offering its latest CD, Ghosts I, as a free download from its site. The collection is a teaser to promote their Ghosts I-IV, a new collection of instrumental tracks. The official download requires email registration at the site to get a download link. You can also download the collection officially via […]
Tags: free music downloads, Nine Inch Nails, the future of music, trends, Trent Reznor
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Mar 3rd, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: General
iPhones are great for listening to music – you can rip and copy over your CDs, you can get music off of iTunes and you can subscribe to one of the many free music podcasts. But iPhones aren’t just for listening to music. There’s a growing number of applications for jailbroken iPhones that let you […]
Tags: iPhone, iphone music applications, iphone music programs, music videos
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Mar 2nd, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: General, Podcasting Services, Streaming Video, Video
What does $4.5 million and the help of a superdope homeboy from the Oaktown get you these days? Not much, if the just-out-of-beta Dancejam is any indication. Dancejam is a YouTube clone that focuses on urban dance. The site lets you view videos of people doing various types of dance, rate the videos and upload […]
Tags: Dancejam, Internet television, Internet video, MC Hammer, video sharing
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Mar 1st, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: General, Podcasting Networks, Podcasting Services
Content delivery network Limelight’s legal problems won’t affect PodShow, says PodShow founder and podcasting pioneer Adam Curry: We have spoken with LimeLight management and they have assured us they will not go ‚Äòdark‚Äô. They have been a good partner to us, we trust them and stand by their word and their excellent service. As with […]
Tags: Adam Curry, content delivery network, Limelight, PodShow
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Feb 29th, 2008 |
By Elisabeth Lewin |
Category: General, Podcast Distribution, Podcasting Networks
Akamai Technologies, which provides technology for the distribution of digital media like podcasts, announced that a jury returned a verdict today in its lawsuit against Limelight Networks. The judgement found that Limelight was infringing on Akamai’s content delivery patent. As a result, the jury awarded Akamai a staggering $45,526,946 in damages, plus interest. The verdict, […]
Tags: Akamai, content delivery network, content delivery networks, Limelight
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Feb 29th, 2008 |
By Elisabeth Lewin |
Category: General, Video Podcasts
In anticipation of the upcoming release of the soundtrack album from the popular NBC Universal TV show ‚ÄúHeroes‚Äù, the program’s executive producer and director Allan Arkush has created a series of five music video podcasts that will be available exclusively from the Zune Marketplace. Each video short features “Heroes” footage set to select tracks from […]
Tags: Bob Dylan, Chemical Brothers, Heroes, Iggy Pop, NBC, video podcast, Video Podcasts, Zune, Zune Originals
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Feb 27th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Digital Video Downloads, General, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs
NBC & Pando Networks, a provider of P2P content delivery services, announced today that Pando will be providing video delivery services for the NBC Direct service. While it’s interesting to see a mainstream network using P2P to distribute video, it looks like NBC Direct is going to be another misbegotten proprietary Internet television offering. It […]
Tags: content delivery networks, NBC, p2p, Pando Networks, video downloads
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Feb 26th, 2008 |
By Elisabeth Lewin |
Category: General
Abilene Christian University announced this week that they would outfit all incoming freshmen with their own iPod Touch or iPhone, to enable the students to receive homework alerts, answer in-class quizzes, and use about a dozen other web applications the university has developed for the devices. ACU’s plans for have attracted the attention of executives […]
Tags: Abilene Christian University, education, iPhone, iPod, ipod applications, ipod touch
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Feb 22nd, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: General, Internet TV, Streaming Video
CBS Interactive has announced that it will begin offering classic shows from its archive as on-demand Internet television. The initial lineup includes full-length episodes of Star Trek, The Twighlight Zone, MacGyver, Hawaii Five-0 and Melrose Place. All content is ad-supported, free to the consumer, and available immediately. While we can’t say that CBS is boldly […]
Tags: CBS, Internet television, on-demand video, Streaming Video, the future of television
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Feb 22nd, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: General, iPods & Portable Media Players, Strange
What do you do with a dead iPod? Rhett and Link have some ideas for you. via iJustine
Tags: dead ipod, iPods
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