Nearly one out of ten large companies has fired an employee for violating corporate blogging or message board policies, according to a survey conducted by Proofpoint, a company that specializes in corporate messaging security. 19 percent of the companies have disciplined an employee for violating corporate blogging or message board policies. While we haven’t seen […]

The¬†iPhone¬†may drive a new wave of growth¬†growth in mobile video usage, according to research conducted by new media research firm Interpret. Research Highlights: Despite owning their new iPhones for a short period of time, 63% of iPhone owners have already used the widescreen-enabled device to watch video (compared to only 28% of regular cell phone […]

The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, has warned Apple CEO Steve Jobs and the CEO of AT&T that they need to agree to new consumer safeguards in connection with the Apple iPhone that will be introduced to much fanfare later today. The group is asking Apple and AT&T to […]

FeedBurner announced today via their blog that their Pro and MyBrand add-on services were now free: FreeBurner for Everyone One of the many benefits that FeedBurner publishers will enjoy now that FeedBurner is part of the Google family is a little something we like to call, “more for free!” Beginning today, two of FeedBurner’s previously […]

80 percent of the U.K. online population (age 15 or older who have accessed the Internet from either a home or a work computer), watched an Internet video in April 2007, compared to 76 percent in the U.S., 79 percent in France, and 70 percent in Germany, according to figures released today by comScore. The […]

The Diffusion Group reports that, based on their latest research, 11% of adult broadband users (some 12 million US consumers) listen to podcasts at least once per month. They also predict that the podcast audience will more than double in the next five years, to 24% of broadband users (38.5 million Americans) by 2012. While […]

The Nielsen Company today announced that it will begin tracking mobile phone owners’ media activity with a new service called Nielsen Wireless. The service will track how many people use content services such as mobile Internet and mobile video and what impact this has on established media behavior. The service is designed specifically for the […]

If you still have any doubts about whether Apple is going to sell a boatload of iPhones, industry analysts have found that 90% of the people they surveyed think that Apple’s iPhone is better than their own phone. In a joint research effort between its Wireless Device Lab and Intelligent System Strategies program, Strategy Analytics […]

comScore today released the results of a study profiling the “iTunes podcasting audience”. The study, sponsored by mobile advertising service Ad Infuse, focused on users who downloaded podcasts via iTunes in October 2006. It found the podcast audience to an attractive demographic for advertisers, with a core audience of high-income, well-educated people. Research Highlights: Males […]

The future of Internet television belongs to free video podcasts and ad-supported video downloads, according to a new report by Forrester Research. Forrester estimates that paid video downloads will peak in 2007, generating $279 million in revenue, up from $98 million last year. Beyond 2007, advertising models will drive the online video market. Despite the […]