A Chicago Tribune article (subscription) takes a look at failure rates of Apple’s popular iPod music players, and reports that Apple designs them to last four years. Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris assured the Tribune that iPods have a failure rate of less than 5 percent, which she called “fairly low” compared with other consumer electronics. […]

Sony PlayStation Portables are getting video podcast support with the latest update to the PSP‚Äôs firmware.The update takes the PSP firmware to version 2.8. It allows the PSP to receive video clips through RSS (really simple syndication) feeds from blogs and other websites. Sony added PSP podcast support using streaming in November 2005 and added […]

According to a recent survey, podcast usage among B2B technology buyers is significant and growing. 41% of survey respondents claim they have listened to podcasts on more than one occasion, while 13% stated that they ‚Äúfrequently‚Äù download or listen to them.The KnowledgeStorm and Universal McCann survey was completed by more than 3,900 business and IT […]

Nielsen//NetRatings announced today that 6.6 percent of the U.S. adult online population, or 9.2 million Web users, have recently downloaded an audio podcast. 4.0 percent, or 5.6 million Web users, have recently downloaded a video podcast. These figures put the podcasting population on a par with those who publish blogs, 4.8 percent, and online daters, […]

Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a leading provider of educational solutions for the secondary school market, has announced the availability of iPod/MP3 player compatible audio and video to supplement its popular instructional programs in business education, world languages, math, language arts, science and social studies. The Glencoe Media Center, which will host the downloadable MP3 audio and video files, […]