Apple iPod to catch podcastsReport: iPod will get recording tools, too
By Frank Barnako, MarketWatch
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Apple Computer's iPod is going to become more podcast-friendly.
Chairman Steve Jobs said Sunday night that support for the
radio-like programs downloaded from the Internet will be included in
the next version of the iPod software, iTunes, due within 60 days.
Jobs made his announcement at "D3: All Things Digital," a technology conference sponsored by the Wall Street Journal
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in San Diego. His remarks were reported by several technology journalists in the audience.
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chairman was "slightly dismissive of populist programming," said Tim
O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media Inc., a technology
publishing company.
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Marketers big and small taking a shine to blogs
By Lisa Baertlein
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Four journalists
who brought news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy into
U.S. living rooms in 1963 have found a new level of fame by using the
Internet to market their book about the experience.
They are
among a growing group of people exploring the potential of blogs, or
Web logs, as a marketing tool and advertising venue.
"We've been
around, but this is the first time we've been around in cyberspace,"
said Bob Huffaker, a former reporter at CBS radio and television
station KRLD in Dallas and one of the four authors of "When the News
Went Live: Dallas 1963."
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