Mobile phone giant Nokia this week announced another round of staff cutbacks, alongside an announcement that it was further opening its technology to mobile application developers. Another 450 employees of the Finnish company were let go this week, on the heels of layoffs of 1700 staffers in March, and an initial reduction of 320 back [...]

We have asked some of our friends and colleagues who attended technology and new media conference South By Southwest Interactive (SxSWi) to share their highlights and takeaways from the conference, which wrapped up earlier this week. Today we share the third part (of four) by guest correspondent Susan Bratton: Social networks & online communities Some [...]

Startup company doubleTwist today launched a public beta of a new universal media application for the Mac that’s like iTunes for everything. doubleTwist’s goal for the product is to be ”a single, streamlined interface that connects to any device, media source or network.” In other words, they want to make moving your media around, from your [...]

Think you need more gear to make that video podcast/music video/movie/viral video hit? Think again.  This video, for the Eskimohunter’s Surfing at 32ºF, was shot entirely on Nokia Nseries cell phones. “Each of the Nokia Nseries devices I used was perfectly suited to the kind of experimental, ‘out-there’ shots I wanted to capture for ‘Surfing at 32ºF’,” says [...]

Robert Scoble left PodTech in mid-January to work for business magazine FastCompany. His new videoblogging gig, FastCompany TV, launched today. In his welcome video, Scoble lolls around on the beach in a seaside frolic (not kidding), and explains the company’s initial two video channels. FastCompany Live, the more immediately interactive of the channels, will feature [...]

The Association For Downloadable Media (ADM), a newly-formed organization dedicated to “providing standards for advertising and audience measurement for episodic and downloadable media,” announced today the election results for the 20 positions on its board. Podcasting News Publisher Elisabeth McLaury Lewin talked with some of the newly-elected board members and committee heads, asking about what [...]

The Association for Downloadable Media (ADM) announced today the election results for its Executive Board (Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer), Advisory Board seats, and committee chairs. The ADM, a newly-formed industry organization dedicated to standardization and monetization of new media, has been formed to focus specifically on any content downloaded by consumers, and will work [...]

It looks like the mobile phone industry is starting to face the music – they’re introducing new features to try and close the gap between their offerings and those of Apple’s iPhone. Nokia has released its Nokia Media Transfer 1.0 beta, which lets you transfer pictures, videos, podcasts, music, and other files between your Nokia [...]

Nokia has announced that it is bringing bringing YouTube videos into the hands of Nokia Nseries multimedia computer owners. YouTube videos are accessible with Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map through the new YouTube mobile site to be launched shortly. Also, YouTube video RSS feeds can now be consumed through the new Nokia Video Center [...]

Nokia has officially introduced the beta release of the Nokia Podcasting Application, designed to make it easy to discover and download podcasting content on the go. Available for the Nokia N91 and other Nokia S60 3rd edition devices, the lets users find and download supported audio and video podcasts directly to Nokia Nseries phones. “Podcasting [...]