VoiceIndigo has announced a worldwide partnership with Samsung to bring podcasting to Samsung mobile phones. Samsung Mobile Podcasts by VoiceIndigo will be pre-loaded on Samsung mobile phones. The first model with the service is now shipping, the Samsung UpStage. VoiceIndigo is a free service that lets users manage their podcasts via a simple web interface. […]

Magnatune is using some great pro-podcasting propaganda at its site to promote music podcasting. The Podcasting is Selling Music logo parodies a 1980’s campaign by the British Phonograph Industry, Home Taping is Killing Music. Despite the best C30-C60-C90 efforts of home tape-makers, music somehow survived. Magnatune is a net music label that specializes in Creative-Commons […]

Here’s something that makes you realize that¬†there’s still room for¬†a tremendous amount of growth in podcasting; a high school in California is considering adding podcasting as¬†a new class in its curriculum. Gary Bissell, a computer science teacher in Atascadero, Calif., is planning a new podcasting class. Bissell came up with the idea for the class, […]

Pleasant Software is now shipping Ubercaster, its all-in-one podcast creation software. It’s made in Germany, by Germans. And it’s Uber! Ubercaster is a complete production suite for podcasting on the Mac, offering podcasters tools for podcast preparation, recording, editing and publishing shows. Features include live audio recording, auto ducking, effects, chapters for enhanced podcasts, ID3 […]

The Philadelphia Orchestra has launched Podchestra, a trial series of orchestral podcasts. The Orchestra‚Äôs first podcast features: interviews with young artists who perform with the Orchestra in April, the ‚ÄúMonth of Rising Stars‚Äù; stories about memorable Orchestra debuts; and a look into the lives of the Orchestra‚Äôs musicians. You can preview the podcast below, or […]

Podcamp, a free unconference about podcasting, is coming to New York this weekend. The New York PodCamp Conference will be held April 7th at the New Yorker Hotel, at 481 8th Avenue at 34th St. The event is organized by attendees, and will focus on topics like the future of podcasting and video podcasting. Organizers […]

Wizzard Software, a software company that specializes in speech-recognition technology and also a podcast service provider, today announced record revenues for 2006, thanks in part to (we’re not making this up!) “Rex” – the talking pill bottle. Wizzard recorded record revenues of $2,943,578, an increase of $1,249,503, or approximately 73%, from revenues of $1,694,075 in […]

March 30: It’s 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we‚Äôre highlighting a great free music podcast. This month, we’ve tried to showcase some of the best music podcasts. Podcasts like Accidental Hash, Rubyfruit Radio and KEXP’s Music That Matters. We’ve also tried to show the variety of podcasts […]

It‚Äôs 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we‚Äôre going to do our best to hook you up a great free music podcast. Tony Steidler-Dennison is a self-described Linux geek, blues freak and lifelong Cardinals fan. He’s also a great example of a podcaster using his Web and media […]

We‚Äôre on the downhill side of 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News.We‚Äôve talked about free guitar music, free classical music, free dj mixes, free hip-hop and even some brutal, unrelenting noise. We haven’t talked about using free music to change the world, though. Electronica artist Ryuichi Sakamoto has launched a campaign to […]