Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg has announced a new service, VaultPress that is designed to meet the growing need for automated backups and security patches for WordPress self-hosted sites. Here’s how Mullenweg describes the service: The vision of VaultPress is to ensure that blogs and sites under its care are always completely secure, regardless of what happens. […]

The Apple iPad will be available starting this Saturday – and it looks like the company has another hit product. Pre-orders are in the hundreds of thousands and iPad suppliers are forecasting 8 million to 10 million iPad shipments in 2010. That’s a lot of iPads – and a lot of people that will now […]

At Musikmesse 2010, a major audio and music industry convention held annually in Frankfurt, BOSS announced the BR-800, a compact portable audio workstation. The BR-800 audio recorder can record four tracks at once to SD-card media. It has inputs for four microphones, built-in audio effects and can double as a USB audio interface and DAW […]

At Musikmesse 2010, an international audio & music trade show, Roland has introduced the R-05, a new $299 pocket recorder that offers some advanced features. The R-05 provides stereo recording directly to SD card — up to 24-bit/96kHz resolution. Features: High-quality stereo recording (24-bit / 96kHz) with the built-in stereo mic or external input. Records […]

Apple has updated its official recommendations on for how to submit your podcast to iTunes. Here’s what they recommend: Test Your Podcast Feed In iTunes: You should first verify that you can successfully subscribe to your feed using the Advanced menu in iTunes: Select Advanced, Subscribe To Podcast in iTunes; Paste in the URL of […]

Five tips for on-location podcast recording, via Mark Moran, news director for NPR’s public radio affiliate in Phoenix: In every environment where you do an interview, just switch on your recorder and get 15-30 seconds of ambient sound at that location. Ask for your subject’s name and title at the top of the interview. Include […]

The Government Accountability Office has introduce a podcast that highlights its recent investigations. GAO’s Watchdog Report features five-minute interviews with auditors and investigators on new investigations. “Podcasting enhances the service GAO provides to Congress and the public by offering an alternative means for people to learn about significant issues and new GAO reports and testimonies,”said […]

iTunes alternative doubleTwist has been updated with podcast support. doubleTwist users can now subscribe to podcasts, search for new shows and  sync those podcasts to a variety of media players. Other updates: library sorting issues fixed (sort by original track number) id3 tag discovery and display enhancement — not a full featured id3 tag editor […]

Podcasts are only 5 years old – but podcasting has already gone from being a niche indie tool to being a mainstream communication channel, even for corporations. Podcast pioneer Dave Winer, who created one of the standards upon which podcasting is based and who helped popularize the technology, has published a torrrent that aggregates podcasts […]

Readers of Podcasting News should take a moment today [February 27], to look at online auction “The Boom Effect“, which is going on throughout the day. The auction’s proceeds will benefit Sonic Boom, young daughter of podcast pioneer and Podiobooks’ co-founder Tee Morris. The brainchild of the Kiwi podcast and Erotica a la Carte author […]