NewTeeVee has announced the schedule for NewTeeVee Live, a new media conference set for San Francisco, November 14th. It looks to be a very tightly scheduled one-day event, with speakers from Joost, AT&T, Turner, VideoEgg, Heavy, MySpace, Blip.tv, Revision3, Nnig, Cisco and Akamai. The lineup focuses on corporate new media. PodTech’s Robert Scoble calls the […]

Madonna has reportedly joined other major musicians dumping their labels for non-traditional music deals. Madonna is close to signing a US $120 million deal with concert promoter Live Nation. In the deal, Madonna will receive a mix of cash and stock in exchange for allowing Live Nation to distribute three studio albums, promote concert tours, […]

Heavyweight podcast hosting provider Wizzard Software has announced changes to the Company‚Äôs Board of Directors, as part of a bid to get listed on the American Stock Exchange. The Board accepted the resignations of Armen Geronian and Gordon Berry, effective October 3, 2007. Geronian and Berry resigned for the sole purpose of facilitating the creation […]

Sony has introduced its second-generation Reader Digital Book, which will go on sale for $300 later this month at Borders stores and from Sony’s website. It supports eBooks, PDFs and Word files, and even MP3s. The PRS-505 will be available in silver and dark blue, can hold up to 160 typical e-books, and has expansion […]

Information is staring to leak out about the second-generations Zune portable media players, Microsoft’s answer to the iPod. Based on unofficial info, the 2G Zunes are not iPod-killers, but instead appear to be several generations behind Apple’s latest iPods. Microsoft is likely to have to compete on price and with distribution deals in order to […]

Marantz Professional introduced a new digital audio recorder designed with podcasters in mind, the PMD620 Solid State Portable Recorder, at the Podcast Academy, held this week in Ontario, California. The PMD620 is a prosumer-level device, featuring a pocket-size form factor, an easy-to-use interface, and built-in stereo mics and speaker. Highlights: Two high-quality omnidirectional condenser mics. […]

Dave Winer, who authored the RSS 2.0 spec that podcasting is based upon, thinks that it’s time to turn Twitter into a podcasting platform. “Back in 2001, I wrote a document called Payloads for RSS that explained how you could attach something to a RSS item,” notes Winer. “Today, we may be at a similar […]

At the risk of sounding like we’ve become the Podango blog* this week (“all Podango, all the time“), they’ve made Podcasting News again today. The online video/audio network company today announced that MommyCast, a popular parenting and family life podcast series, has launched the MommyCast and Friends Family Channel at Podango as part of an […]

Podcasters Paul Colligan and Alex Mendossian have announced PremiumCast, a new service that lets you manage, deliver and sell podcasts and video podcasts. The service lets you create custom messages, track subscriber usage, monetize podcasts and publish both public and private podcasts. Three levels of service are available: Free, Professional ($37/month) & Viral ($67/month). The […]

The Association for Downloadable Media (ADM) plans to hold its first in-person meeting at the Podcasting & New Media Expo in Ontario, CA. The meeting will be held at 7:30 a.m. PDT on Friday, September 28, 2007 in Ballroom A. The meeting is open to any expo attendee. Agenda items include: the goals of the […]