Addonics has introduced a 1.8″ ZIF - CF Adapter kit that you can use to make your iPod faster and more shock resistant. The adapter (ADZIFCF) supports several types of Compact Flash media including PIO, DMA, UDMA4 for up to a 40MB/s [...]

iPhone apps are quickly going mainstream. Payless Car Rental has announced an iPhone-formatted version of its site for the iPhone and iPod touch: We recently launched a slimmed-down version of the Payless website for iPhone and iPod Touch users. Simply point your iPhone or iPod Touch to PaylessCarRental.com (or PaylessCar.com). The iPhone and iPod Touch optimized website also [...]

Advertisers are spending more at niche, or “long tail” web sites, and less at large sites, according to figures from PubMatic, a advertising service for publishers. The PubMatic AdPrice index shows that, while average ad rates are falling, rates at niche sites are actually on the rise. eCPMs (effective cost per 1000 ad impressions) for large Web [...]

Television content available through Apple’s iTunes Store continues to grow. HBO and Apple today officially announced that programming from HBO is now available for purchase and download via the iTunes Store. Programs include “The Sopranos,” “Sex and the City,” “Deadwood” “Rome,” “Flight of the Conchords” and “The Wire.” “We’re very excited to make these legendary HBO programs [...]

The Guardian reports that BT PodShow, an online TV portal, is getting its full consumer launch: The service is a joint venture with US-based Podshow (now Mevio), in which the backers of Google and YouTube have invested, and which has been running for several months. It has over 1m hours of content. The two companies signed their [...]

Google Reader got an update today, but it’s more than an updated news reader - it’s a taste of the future of the Web: We on the Reader team are heavy mobile Safari users. To make our (and your) Reader iPhone experience better, we wanted to really take advantage of the iPhone’s capabilities. Today we’re releasing a [...]

DreamCatcher has announced the release of iPhone Video Recorder, an iPhone video recorder. iPhone Video Recorder records audio and video at a frame rate of up to 15fps to the compressed mpeg4 format. Because of the CPU overhead, iPhone Video Recorder encodes at the end of a recording session, and the encoding can be paused anytime and [...]

U.S. Internet users viewed 11.5 billion online videos in March 2008, a 13-percent gain versus February and a 64-percent gain versus March 2007, according to figures from ComScore. All Your Views Are Belong To YouTube In March, Google Sites ranked as the top U.S. video property, with more than 4.3 billion videos viewed (38 percent share of [...]

Google has released a new free Mac OS X app, Vidnik, that’s designed to make it easy for users to record video, add a Title, Tags & Description and upload it to YouTube: You can use Vidnik to create a video diary, or just to quickly record a video comment to attach to an existing YouTube [...]

This is a demo video of the new FlyTunes Internet radio tuner service. FlyTunes delivers music, talk, weather, and traffic to the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. The video shows the installation process and demos a few stations.

TimeTube is a mashup that puts YouTube videos on an interactive timeline. Search for any phrase, and TimeTube presents the results on a timeline. You can scale the timeline to show more time or more detail. Timetube also lets you view the results as a list, in Flip Book mode or on a map.

The official Blade Runner podcast may be a promo tie-in for the 25th Anniversary DVD of the classic sci-fi film, but it’s also the official Blade Runner podcast. Queue the Love Theme. To subscribe, add this podcast URL to your podcast software: http://wired.uk.com/BladeRunnerDVDUKPodcast.xml

Microsoft is still struggling to come up with a Zune platform that competes with Apple’s iPod/iTunes juggernaut, reports Electronista: Microsoft has revealed that it has sold two million of the music players since their launch in November 2006, revealing relatively flat growth for the device lineup. The results leave Microsoft with just a fraction of Apple’s US [...]

The Audacity Team has announced the release of Audacity v1.3.5 beta for Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix. Audacity is a free, open source audio editing application that is popular with podcasters. Changes in the new version include improvements and new features for recording, import/export and the user interface. Here are the details: Changes in Beta version 1.3.5 Recording / Playback: Several bugs [...]

Excited about the new version of Speed Racer? Hulu has a collection of classic Speed Racer episodes available on demand as streaming video.

Ever struggle to get a decent recording of your voice for a podcast? This video, from poykpak, shows that there’s more to life than great voiceovers….

Orb Networks today announced a new service that streams live TV to the iPhone and iPod touch. “TV on the iPhone is now real,” said Joe Costello, CEO of Orb Networks. “Steve Jobs may think that buying shows from iTunes is the same as watching TV, but iPhone users know better. When the NBA playoffs are [...]

Todd Cochrane is the CEO of Raw Voice, a longtime podcaster at Geek News Central and helps connect podcasters with advertisers via his Blubrry podcast network. He’s also known for having strong opinions, on topics ranging from the PodShow/Mevio name change to the quality of podcasters’ RSS feeds. I asked Todd about his perspective on user-generated content [...]

Though we haven’t seen any official announcement from AT&T, its site is already touting 3G iPhone coverage and free wireless access at the company’s 17,000 hotspots. The AT&T site now touts 3G support for the iPhone: Data Access In order to use data such as email, Google Maps, YouTube videos and web browsing, AT&T recommends using iPhone in [...]

Beet.tv’s Andy Plesser reports that the co-producers of lonelygirl15, Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, have raised $5 million in venture funding for their new company, EQAL. They’re building a digital media studio and working on product placement and licensing deals. “We’re going to teach Hollywood how to do it right,” said Beckett.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Warner Music Group losses increased in the fiscal second quarter as the company continues to struggle with a drop-off in sales of compact discs as consumers shift toward digital music. The company remains “excited about the long-term prospects for our business”, according to Chairman and Chief Executive Edgar Bronfman Jr. [...]

Radionomy, a Belgian startup, is a site that lets you create a free, ad-supported Web radio station The site, now in beta testing, is designed to make creating a Web radio station trivial, letting you browse through vast music, jingle and content libraries made available by Radionomy. You can also integrate your own musical creations or [...]

Following two class-action lawsuits, Apple Canada is offering $45 credits to Canadian residents who purchased first-, second- or third-generation iPods before June 24, 2004. The proposed settlement is the result of two iPod owners suing because rechargeable batteries in the second year of use conked out after just three hours, contrary to the advertised claim of [...]

Speculation is running wild on the Web about Microsoft possibly building a content censor into the Zune software. It comes as a result of a New York Times article that looked at why NBC pulled its TV content from Apple’s iTunes store and is now distributing it for the Zune. NYT’s Saul Hansell writes: Late Tuesday afternoon I [...]

Other World Computing announced today the availability of 802.11n WiFi Adapters that promise to let any Macintosh computer upgrade to 802.11n wireless connectivity via USB, PCMCIA, or PCI card options. With 802.11n, indoor ranges of up to 220 feet (outdoor up to 500 feet) and performance of up to 300Mbps are possible — or up to [...]