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Put this in the unsubstantiated rumor category - but AppleInsider is reporting that iPhone firmware 2.2 will add support for wireless downloads: A tipster shared with us some screenshots of the new firmware, including what appears to be the ability to download podcasts directly to your iPhone (and presumably your iPod touch). This could tidily explain [...]

Professional podcast training event company and publisher The Podcast Academy is “opening the vault” for a week, offering for sale a set of audio recordings of all the sessions, panels, and keynote addresses from the 2006, 2007, and 2008 New Media Expo. “I decided to offer a historical look at podcasting,” said Podcast Academy editor-in-chief Michael [...]

ZDNet’s Tech Bits is declaring Blu-Ray dead: Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product. With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope. Even $150 Blu-ray players won't [...]

The blogger & Podcaster Media Network is a new media network startup that promises a “six-figure income for all.” It’s not clear from the site if they are promising a six figure salary for everybody that signs up, or if everybody that signs up will just be asked to split it up equally. Here are the membership [...]

I recently discovered that the University of Oxford offers quite a few interesting podcast series. I was looking for some resources on Beowulf for one of our children, but was pleasantly surprised to find an incredible variety of topics presented in podcast format. Some of the 99 podcast feeds offered: refugees and forced migration around the world philosophy [...]