According to the most recent Tech Poll from radio research firm Jacobs Media, the audience for podcasts is up 87% year to year among rock radio listeners. Here are some of the highlights of their research: New technology continues to rapidly move into radio listeners’ lives. This year, the “big gainers” in terms of occupying […]

According to report at StorageProPortal, a team of Scottish Nanotechnology scientists claim that they can cram up to 500 Terabyte worth of data onto one square inch – putting 100 millions songs on your iPod. Unfortunately, the Glaswegian team’s research is “in the conceptual stages” – which means that these 500 Terabyte iPods probably won’t […]

While mainstream coverage may not reflect it yet, podcasting is rapidly moving towards mainstream adoption. According to a new e-Marketer report, a January 2008 Arbitron-Edison Media Research study found that podcast use is exploding: The podcast audience has grown nearly 40% in the last year. Podcasting reaches 18% of the US population, up from 13% […]

comScore has updated its Video Metrics offerings, adding the UK, France, Germany and Canada to its current US offering. Of the five countries currently reported by comScore Video Metrix, online video had the highest reach in Canada, where 19 million viewers viewed a video online in December, representing 89 percent of the total online population […]

The iPhone is rapidly increasing Apple’s share of the browser market, according to the latest figures from StatCounter. About 1 in 400 browsers on the Internet are now using Safari on the iPhone or iPod touch. Apple increased its share of the Internet browser market in the US by 64% between December and March, according […]

Remember all the goofy things you did as a kid, and how you’re glad sometimes that people don’t know about them? Things are different now. With YouTube, today’s kids are completely pwned. WFMU’s Beware of the Blog has a great post that looks at a terrifying and hysterical sub-genre of YouTube videos: AP English classes’ […]

Apple confirmed the rumor we reported earlier, announcing that the iTunes Store had surpassed Wal-Mart to become the number one music retailer in the US. “We launched iTunes less than five years ago, and it has now become the number one music retailer in the world,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. “We […]

Sony has introduced the HDR-TG1 Handycam, a midget-sized (dwarf, if you’ve seen In Bruges) high-definition video camera, weighing in at just ten ounces Despite its tiny size, it is a full-featured camcorder that can record 1920 x 1080 HD video and 4-megapixel digital photos directly to Sony Memory Stick PRO Duo or PRO Duo Mark2 […]

Apple’s iTunes has passed Wal-Mart to become the #1 source for music in the US, according to an Apple email obtained by Ars Technica. If this turns out to be accurate, it is a milestone for the digital distribution of music. The news was announced in an e-mail sent this afternoon to some Apple employees, […]

Earlier this month we reported on how the newspaper industry has lost its future audience to the Internet. It gets worse. In the last year, the newspaper industry has experienced the worst ad revenue decline in its history, according to the Newspaper Association of America. Total print advertising revenue in 2007 plunged 9.4% to $42 […]