Here at Podcasting News, we’ve been so preoccupied with local politics (the Iowa Caucuses were last week), and then recovering from same, that we only noticed recently that the weekend is filled with National Football League playoff games. Who knew that Jacksonville had a professional football team? Not me! But apparently they are playing the […]

A number of well-known figures in the podcast production and promotion industry will be featured at the MacWorld Podcasting and Rich Media Symposium, all day next Friday, January 18th, at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. The MacWorld Podcasting and Rich Media Symposium promises to cover the whole gamut of podcast issues, from creation, audience-building, monetization, […]

IT Conversations founder and Conversations Network head Doug Kaye sends word that his latest community project, PodCorps.org, is halfway to its goal of 1,000 volunteer audio “stringers.” PodCorps.org is a team of independent audio/video producers who record and publish important events and interviews anywhere in the world. PodCorps.org is a new project of The Conversations […]

Pandora, the internet radio service of the “Music Genome Project,” has announced that it is discontinuing its service in the UK, effective January 15. Pandora lets users design their own streaming radio stations based on their musical preferences. Pandora’s continued operations have been uncertain since mid-2007, when licensing body protests in North America and UK […]

Daily traffic to video-sharing sites such as YouTube has doubled in the last year and the number of women visiting has doubled, too. According to the latest research by Pew Internet: 48% of internet users said they had ever visited a video-sharing site such as YouTube. A year ago, in December 2006, 33% of internet […]

Open Source nerds, rejoice: This week, The Linux Foundation is launching a podcast series, Open Voices, featuring conversations with “the leaders of open source.” The series kicks off with the first of a two-part conversation with with Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux Operating System, and fellow at the Linux Foundation. Part II will be […]

It looks like Google is killing off ad men and women. Advertising Age reports that Ogilvy & Mather getting ready to lay off between 50 and 100 staffers in New York this week. Ogilvy, New York, recently reshuffled management in the wake of the departure of Andy Berndt, former co-president of the New York office […]

Podcast.com announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas its list of the “Top 10 Podcasts of the Year” for 2007, in conjunction with media aggregation/distribution company Treedia.com, which created the feed management platform used at Podcast.com. Podcast.com, a podcast directory and feed management site, maintains a list of 43,000 podcast feeds. To […]

At the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung announced that it has developed a multi-level cell (MLC) flash-based 128 Gigabyte (GB) solid state drive (SSD) that it will produce this year in 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch versions for notebook and desktop PCs, as well as other mobile applications. The new drive offers a data writing speed of […]

At the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates used his last keynote to offer his take on the future, talk about the first “digital decade” and what the future offers. He was joined by Robbie Bach, President of Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division, who helped Gates demo his mad Guitar Hero […]