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Nine Inch Nails Offers Latest Album, Ghosts, As Free Download

Mar 3rd, 2008 | By | 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 […]



Five Free iPhone Music Apps

Mar 3rd, 2008 | By | 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 […]



Dancejam Raises Questions About The Future Of Niche Internet Video Sites

Mar 2nd, 2008 | By | 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 […]



Adam Curry On PodShow + LimeLight

Mar 1st, 2008 | By | 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 […]



Limelight Loses Patent Infringement Suit With Akamai

Feb 29th, 2008 | By | 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, […]



‘Heroes’ Video Podcast Debuts at Zune Marketplace

Feb 29th, 2008 | By | 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 […]



NBC To Use P2P To Distribute Internet TV

Feb 27th, 2008 | By | 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 […]



University First In US To Equip All Freshmen With iPhones

Feb 26th, 2008 | By | 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 […]



CBS Offering Star Trek On Demand

Feb 22nd, 2008 | By | 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 […]



Things To Do With A Dead iPod

Feb 22nd, 2008 | By | 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