Author William Gibson, whose novels have predicted the social implications of Internet technology and the rise of faux-documentary video sensations like LonelyGirl15, offers his vision of how the Internet has wrapped itself around all media, whether its online or offline: The thing that has affected me most directly during Pattern Recognition, and subsequently, is the […]

NPR has introduced a custom branded podcast player for Facebook, based on technology from SplashCast. The application, called the NPR Podcast Player, displays the latest episodes of a variety of NPR Podcasts. Facebook users can add the application to their profiles to automatically receive new NPR Podcasts episodes to listen to and to share this […]

¬† Audiophile loudspeaker maker Bowers & Wilkins has announced the Zeppelin speaker system, a high-end dirigible-shaped dock & speaker system for the iPod. “The iPod deserves no less than the best audio reproduction possible” says Evert Huizing, B&W Executive VP of Business Development, “and we believe Zeppelin delivers the truest, most life-like sound from it. […]

Puretracks.com today becomes the first Canadian digital music store to sell EMI’s digital music catalogue in an unrestricted¬†MP3 file format, without digital rights management (DRM). Beginning immediately in the Canadian market, you can purchase tracks from the likes of The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and Canada’s Nickelback as MP3s.”EMI tracks purchased at Puretracks will play […]

Apple today announced that more than three billion songs have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store.i iTunes is the world‚Äôs most popular online music, TV and movie store. iTunes recently surpassed Amazon and Target to become the third largest music retailer in the US. ‚ÄúWe‚Äôd like to thank all of our customers who […]

Led Zeppelin, one of the last remaining holdouts against digital music downloads, has announced plans to release Mothership,¬†a new greatest-hits package. More significantly, all 24 tracks on the release¬†will also be available for digital download, marking the first time that any Zeppelin has been made available legally online. In addition to digital downloads, multiple physicall […]

Google said Friday that its long-promised content filtering system to combat piracy was coming soon. Google made the announcement at a hearing Friday in the billion dollar copyright-infringement lawsuit that Viacom filed against Google. Google attorney Philip S. Beck told the judge the company was working “very intensely” on a video recognition technology. According to […]

The US Patent & Trademark Office has published Apple‚Äôs trademark for podcasting, right, trademark application number 77235043. The logo is used by Apple within iTunes and on its site to represent podcasting. Apple describes the mark like this: “The mark consists of a stylized person or antenna surrounded by concentric circles/broadcast waves.” The trademark is […]

According to a new report from the Yankee Group, a media research firm, online video will soon be a dominant component of brand advertising. They offer the following reasons: Video conveys emotion better than text, images and audio. Non-linear online video combines the emotive power of television with the interactivity and measurability of internet advertising. […]

Dial-up Internet access is disappearing as barrier to the adoption of podcasting, video podcasting and other Internet media. Seventy-two percent of U.S. adults now have access to a broadband connection and more than half of American households now subscribe to broadband, according to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). ‚ÄúWith 20 percent of non-broadband subscribers expecting […]