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Archive for the 'Podcasting' Category

Portland Podcaster Is The Story

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 26th, 2007

The Oregonian had a feature story on Josh Bancroft, super geek, in the Sunday newspaper.
Josh is blogger extraordinare and a leader in Portland Social Media.

You can read his Personal blog at TinyScreenfuls.com, see his Photos at Flickr, Videos at blip.tv, Feeds at Feedburner, Instant messages at Twitter, and Web favorites at del.icio.us, along with [...]

Datacast This

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 26th, 2007

Steve Bass, formerly the boss at Nashville Public Broadcasting and now Oregon Public Broadcasting, says there is one business model that will allow public television to serve users directly, take advantage of broadcasting’s direct reach and avoid middlemen altogether: datacasting.

We at Nashville Public Television see datacasting as our highest priority—so high that we’re reserving [...]

Bill Prevents Sat Radio Recording

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 12th, 2007

C/Net reports that satellite and Internet radio services must restrict listeners’ ability to record and play back individual songs, under new legislation introduced this week in the U.S. Senate.
The rules are embedded in a copyright bill called the “Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act,” or Perform Act, which was reintroduced Thursday [...]

Open Source Radio Automation

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 12th, 2007

Campcaster is a free and open source automation system for radio stations, reports the BBC. It provides live studio broadcast capabilities as well as remote automation in one integrated system.
Until relatively recently, running a radio station required a large amount of hardware, some of it rather complex - and most of it expensive. [...]

PSP Hotspots

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 21st, 2006

In an effort to keep up with Nintendo’s downloading hotspots, Sony is entering the game by announcing the forthcoming availability of PSP Spot download stations, says Engadget.

Europe’s Playstation Spots and Japan’s Playstation Spots have been operating for several months.
Now Sony Playstation Spots will soon be installed in Circuit City, GameStop, Target, and Toys ‘R Us [...]

Zune Review

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 3rd, 2006

DailyTech says Microsoft’s new Zune, which goes on sale November 14th in the U.S., has a 30GB hard drive, 3″ QVGA screen, FM radio and WiFi. Battery life is rated at 14 hours (WiFi off) and 13 hours (WiFi on) when playing music. Battery life when watching videos is listed at “up to 4 hours.”
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UltraMobilePC Podcast Review

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 3rd, 2006

Josh Bancroft’s Tiny Screenfuls has a Podcast Review of the Samsung UltraMobile PC.
Just two geeks in a conference room with a mic, some gadgets, and a whole lot to talk about. The show is about an hour long, and 27MB. You can play it directly from the player on this post, or use the [...]

Event Blogging with WiFi/VoIP

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 3rd, 2006

Pangean Technologies last month launched Y-Talk, a session initiation protocol-based software application that brings push-to-talk functionality to any Windows PDA, explains Mobile Radio Technology.
The application is targeted primarily at campus environments in the hospital, warehouse, and retail sectors and currently is available on Symbol Technologies MC50 and MC70 enterprise digital assistants.
Y-Talk’s voice-over-Wi-Fi technology, [...]

Free Mobile Blog Software

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 20th, 2006

Globe Telecom, the leading telecommunications operator in the Philippines, and Nokia, today announced that Globe is the first operator in the world to offer their customers a fully integrated mobile online sharing experience with Nokia Nseries phones.

Without the need to download or install any additional applications, Globe customers can now upload their photos and video [...]

Blogosphere Transistions

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 12th, 2006

Robert Scoble, a well-known Microsoft blogger, announced he is joining PodTech.Network as Vice President of Media Development. Scoble maintained the popular blog, Scobleizer which is currently listed in the top 10 blogs on Technorati. At Microsoft, Channel 9, their video blog, gave the corporation a human face that people could relate to. The [...]