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Podcasting goes scripted
Podcasting is due to come to the masses, or anyone with Microsoft Word 24 February 2006 14:50 GMT
Podcasting is due to come to the masses, or anyone with Microsoft Word

MT-Podcast promises to let anyone produce podcasts without the need for voice recordings.

Users hoping to make a podcast simply write their script using Word and then hand it over...
Ricky Gervais says second series podcast will not be free
Gervais set to earn big with latest podcast series. 21 February 2006 20:09 GMT
Following the huge success of his first podcast series, Ricky Gervais is set to make over £250,000 an episode by offering his second series for download at 95 pence per download.

Available exclusively from Audible.co.uk and the iTunes music store, Season 2 of...
BBC extend podcast trial to include more shows
BBC launches more podcasts including efforts from Scott Mills, Jeremy Paxman and Women's hour 15 February 2006 12:41 GMT
The BBC seems to be pleased enough with its podcasting efforts so far that the corporation is launching what it is calling the next stage of its Podcasting trial.

In the “next stage” the BBC will begin offering hourly news bulletins, Woman's Hour podcasts and...
Ricky Gervais wins title of most popular podcast ever
Ricky Gervais and his team were this week awarded the Guinness World Record for the most downloaded podcast 7 February 2006 18:17 GMT
Ricky Gervais and his team were this week awarded the Guinness World Record for the most downloaded podcast, gaining an average of 261,670 downloads per episode of “The Ricky Gervais Show” during its first month.

The podcast has been available since December....
Podcasts for athletes at Endurance Radio
As podcasting grows, it's only a matter of time before there is something for everyone. Now it is the turn of the athletes amongst us. 3 February 2006 14:14 GMT
As podcasting grows, it's only a matter of time before there is something for everyone. Now it is the turn of the athletes amongst us.

Endurance Radio has set itself up as the podcasting home for runners, cyclists, triathletes and adventure racers. In that sense...
Apple launches iTunes U in America
Apple launches service to bring lectures to students looking to bunk off 26 January 2006 10:30 GMT
Apple has launched a new service in America that sees it team up with universities and education establishments to offer lectures to its iTunes Music Store customers.

The new service called iTunes U (the U standing for University) is a free, hosted service for...
Sky launches UK's first news video podcasting service
Sky has announced the launch of the UK's first ever news video podcasting service 16 January 2006 14:18 GMT
Sky has announced the launch of the UK's first ever news video podcasting service.

Viewers can download Sky News video directly to their iPod or multimedia player to get the clips of the latest news on the move.

Rather than opt for an audio only deliver,...
Creative launch podcasting directory for its brand of MP3 players
Creative, keen to keep up the fight against Apple, has launched a one-stop-shop for it Zen Vision MP3 player owners to have access to creating and transferring thousands of audio and video blogs 13 January 2006 18:37 GMT
Creative, keen to keep up the fight against Apple, has launched a one-stop-shop for it Zen Vision MP3 player owners to have access to creating and transferring thousands of audio and video blogs.

Called ZenCast, the site and accompanying application aims to...
Tony Blair embraces podcasts
Tony Blair has embraced the world of podcasting, by doing one for The Sun newspaper in the UK 11 January 2006 12:12 GMT
Tony Blair has embraced the world of podcasting, by doing one for The Sun newspaper in the UK.

In what is the first ever podcast by a British Prime Minister the PM talks to The Sun's Political Editor George Pascoe-Watson, about the newspapers campaign to rid...
Podcast makes Word of the Year
The word 'Podcast' is 2005's Word Of The Year, according to the Editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary 7 December 2005 10:39 GMT
The word 'Podcast' is 2005's Word Of The Year, according to the editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary.

Defined as "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player",...
Yahoo embraces podcasts with new search engine
Yahoo launches podcast search beta 10 October 2005 14:57 GMT
Yahoo, keen not to be left out of the party has launched a beta search engine that focuses solely on Podcasts.

Called Yahoo Podcast, the service will let users search for podcasts by keyword, categories or user-generated topic coding ('tagging'), with the home...
Apple file to trademark iPodcasts
Apple want to own podcast name 15 September 2005 17:41 GMT
Apple has filed for a trademark on the term iPodcast according to Apple news site Appleinsider.com.

According to the article, the iPod maker made two filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the iPodcast trademark, both of which are awaiting...
Teachers to offer lectures via podcast
Student get offered chance not to turn up at Texas University 14 September 2005 0:00 GMT
Teachers are preparing to put downloadable lectures on the internet for $5 per lecture so students unable (read bothered) to make a lecture won't miss out.

Pick-A-Prof, an online service that allows students to anonymously review their teachers, has linked up...
MoMA in New York gets unofficial podcast audio tour
Musuem audio tours get interactive 28 August 2005 18:40 GMT
An American website is asking its readers for help producing an unofficial audio guide for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York that users will then be able to download as a podcast and listen to on their way around.

According to http://www.tuaw.com/ who...
Download the Pocket-lint.co.uk audio Newscast
The last two weeks gadget, gear and gizmo news in audio 19 August 2005 14:30 GMT
Catch up with the all the gadget, gear and gizmo news over the past two weeks with the Pocket-lint.co.uk audio newscast. To listen to our third Pocket-lint.co.uk audio newscast click on the image below:

Once downloaded you can then transfer the file...
Podcast makes the dictionary
New words to baffle the old folk 11 August 2005 12:50 GMT
The media might be focusing on the 150 odd new terms for insulting someone compared to the 50 that are complementary that have been added to this years new batch of dictionary's, but here at Pocket-lint we are interested in the more gadgety terms that have been added.
The second Pocket-lint Newscast goes live
Catch up with a round up of the news from 18 July - 31 July 2005 1 August 2005 11:20 GMT
Catch up with the all the gadget, gear and gizmo news over the past two weeks with the Pocket-lint.co.uk audio newscast. To listen to our second Pocket-lint.co.uk audio newscast click on the image below:

Once downloaded you can then transfer the file...
Podcasting search engine Podscope launches
Podcast search engine lets you search within podcasts 27 July 2005 15:22 GMT
A search engine that will allow users to search within a Podcast has been launched on the web this week. Called Podscope, the engine will make every word searchable within a podcast, enabling the audio indexing of podcast content.

The user can search on a term,...
Pocket-lint.co.uk goes audio with fortnightly news podcast
Pocket-lint goes audio 19 July 2005 12:55 GMT
Pocket-lint.co.uk has gone audio with the launch of a fortnightly news podcast for readers to download. From today you will be able to catch up with the latest news twice a month via our new podcasting service.

As well as the new audio newscast, you will be able...
Apple offers podcasting in latest iTunes update
Podcasting feature added 28 June 2005 13:48 GMT
Apple has added Podcasting to its iTunes music software package offering users the chance to track and download their favourite podcasts from across the web.

The new feature comes in version 4.9 and is available to download from Apple or as a part of the Apple...
BBC embraces podcasting
BBC rolls out podcasting plan 15 April 2005 18:33 GMT
The BBC has embraced the power of podcasting with the announcement that it will be offering 20 more shows as a downloadable MP3 content.

Following a trial Radio Five's Fighting Talk and Radio 4's In Our Time podcasts, The Corporation is keen to run the service...
Podcasting set to take off in 2005
5 April 2005 0:08 GMT
Chances are you've probably never heard of it, but six million Americans - one third of iPod users in the US have at some point downloaded and listened to a Podcast.

According to a survey carried out by the American research company Pew Internet & American Life...
Apple iTunes has finally launched in the UK, France and Germany
15 June 2004 13:28 GMT
Steve Jobs was in London today to open the doors to Apple's iTunes Europe music download service this morning. Over 700,000 tracks are available to download from today with individual tracks costing 79p to download and whole albums priced at £7.99.

Apple has...
Music downloads surge with new iTunes update
5 May 2004 19:21 GMT
Following Apple's upgrade of its iTunes software last week, Apple has announced today that the new software has increased the number of music files downloads for the American service. According to the Technology company: 3.3million songs had been downloaded and 20,000 people...