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Monday, 18 July 2005 |
ITunes
Mints Podcasting Stars
Wired News -
USA
Self-proclaimed tech geek Brian Reid got an MP3 player for Christmas and
decided after fiddling with it for a while to start a little podcast called Sex
Talk that focused on one of his passions: gender issues.
The suburban Washington, D.C., stay-at-home dad did a few broadcasts, touching
on such sonorous topics as the Roman Catholic Church's stance on female priests,
and then gave up back in April when his audience failed to grow beyond a few
subscribers.
So imagine his surprise when, during the first week of July, Reid got an e-mail
from an Australian reader of his blog congratulating him for having the
53rd-most-popular podcast on iTunes.
And so it went in the first fortnight after Apple Computer issued the software
that turned podcasts mainstream. The upgrade to iTunes 4.9 on June 29 gave
millions of iPod owners and iTunes customers a simple way to search for and
subscribe to podcasts without any other software. Apple counted more than 1
million podcast subscriptions through iTunes in the first two days alone,
according to a company press release.
Still, the switch came suddenly and without warning, turning a long list of
mom-and-pop online audiocasters into overnight sensations, crashing servers
across the nation and minting new internet stars in a way not seen since the
early days of blogging.Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Monday, 18 July 2005 |
Sony takes bite out of Apple's iPod in Japan
Reuteurs
TOKYO (Reuters) - Don't call it a comeback yet, but Sony Corp. has a new
lineup of digital music players that are slicing into the popularity of Apple
Computer's iPod device in Japan.
Apple is still squashing Sony in Europe and North America, where the iPod has
achieved iconic status and a big selling point is the availability of iTunes, an
easy-to-use music downloading service that has not yet been launched in Japan.
While Apple remains the top seller of hard drive players in Japan, there has
been a decisive momentum swing in the Japanese market, with Sony (6758.T: Quote,
Profile, Research) securing the top position for memory-type players in both May
and June, knocking Apple and its iPod shuffle device into second place.
Translating that success overseas will not be easy, but boosting sales in Japan
is an important first step for Sony as it tries to reclaim the lead in the
portable audio market it helped pioneer with the Walkman cassette player 26
years ago.
"There is no question that Sony has the potential of being much more
competitive," said Tim Bajarin, an analyst at Creative Strategies, a U.S.-based
research firm. "It could emerge as a more formidable rival to Apple over the
next three years."
Launched worldwide in March and April, Sony's new lineup of music players
includes several models equipped with flash memory chips able to store 256, 512
megabytes or 1 gigabyte of data, and two players with hard disk drives.Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Monday, 18 July 2005 |
What it takes
to be a radio disc jockey
Economic
Times - India
Of all the buzzwords doing the rounds these days, ‘podcasting’ has got to
be the zeitgeistiest. It’s a short personal radio show or audio blog on the
internet and can be downloaded and played back on a computer or a portable music
player like Apple’s iPod, from where the genre draws its name.
So here’s your chance to become a radio disc jockey, and create your own radio
show and then publish it on the internet. “In its bare essence, it’s
broadcasting to MP3 players. What’s great about it is that anybody can do it,”
explains Adam Curry, former VJ and pioneer of podcasting in an interview with
BBC.
A click can take you to a page of podcasts on offer - they range from public
radio shows to the eccentric rants of geeks. That’s a big boon to rock bands in
various cities. “Now, it’s much easier to access works of other bands from all
over the country. We plan to podcast our music, as soon as our tracks will be
out next month,” says Joy Deep, member of a Delhi based rock band - Presporika
Subscribers - which can use their ‘podcatching’ software to select and
automatically detect which podcasts they would like to sync to their MP3 player.Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Friday, 15 July 2005 |
Korean firm launches
Iriver products in India
Sify -
Taramani,Chennai,India
Bangalore: Korean major in portable digital audio and visual devices
ReignCom on Wednesday has announced the launch of Iriver products in India. It
has entered into an exclusive distribution alliance with Salora International.
With a sizeable market share of 60 per cent outside its country, ReignCom with
an overall global sales of $430 million last year, decided to focus on emerging
markets such as India, SAARC, West Asia and Africa. ReignCom has projected
market potential of 0.79 to 1.11 million pieces of the personal digital
entertainment devices in India in the next years.
Henry Kim, Vice-President of ReignCom, said India would be a major contributor
to the estimated revenue of $44 billion from MP3 devices by 2007.Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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