Seattle-based Divvycast this week unveiled a podcasting portal dedicated to “connecting musicians with advertisers.” Divvycast lets musicians create and upload podcasts and gain sponsorship from interested advertisers. Musicians can generate income by posting these podcasts with the top podcast aggregators and social networking sites across the internet. Through music clips, live concert recordings, and interviews, […]

At the Podcast and Portable Media Expo, Samson was showing off its H4 Handy Digital Recorder. The device fits in your palm and is designed to record live musical performances, interviews, podcasts, meetings, classes and seminars. The H4 can record 24-bit/96 kHz digital audio as well as in MP3 format with bitrates up to 320kbps. […]

F≈çnpods has announced a new platform designed to provide access to podcasts and other digital audio content through mobile phones The service provides users with PC and Internet content optimized for an on-the-go mobile experience, and lets users access it from a landline, mobile or VoIP phone. A Web-based interface lets users create and customize […]

San Francisco Opera and MobileCast Media have announced a joint podcast project, the first of which features an interview with opera icon Deborah Voigt. San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley’s interview with Deborah Voigt was recorded live on the stage of San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House, offers a personal glimpse into the life […]

Apple has played a major role in the acceptance of portable media players and the adoption of podcasting. They’ve delivered a software/hardware combination with iTunes and iPods that works easily and seemlessly, and iPods have been wildly successful as a result. Nevertheless, the state of portable media could benefit from more competition. It’s with this […]

Cingular Wireless and Melodeo today announced the availability of Melodeo’s Mobilcast podcast service. Cingular customers can now search and listen to thousands of podcasts on their Cingular phone. “Mobilcast further enables the mobile news and entertainment capabilities of your cell phone by providing quick and simple access to podcast favorites while on the go,” said […]

Closing out the official activities on the first day of the Podcast and Portable Media Expo in Ontario, California, was the second annual Podcast Awards Ceremony. Previously announced winners of the PME Awards for Podcast of the Year were the folks who produce Grape Radio. In keeping with the gravitas of the occasion, the winners […]

PirateWeather, a service that offers robocasted weather reports for every Zip code in the US, has introduced a new service for MySpace users. Pirate Weather’s podcasts are automatically generated using text-to-speech software, and available via embedded players or podcast feeds. If you’re interested in trying this out, send a request with your Zip code and […]

Added to Podcasting Software list: PodcastBlaster is a free online service for generating podcast feeds. To use, you fill out web form fields that are used to generate the RSS file. Each time you creates a new episode of your podcast you can come back to your Podcastblaster account and add a link to that […]

Wizzard Software has announced that they have entered into a licensing agreement with Voice Factory International to add thousands of hours of audiobooks to the Switchpod Network. Switchpod.com will offer this extensive collection of classic books for digital download in podcast format at absolutely no cost to the consumer.‚ÄúAdding digital books to the Switchpod Network […]