Google has updated its free podcast client for Android devices, Google Listen. Here’s what’s new in version 1.1: Subscriptions are stored by Google Reader in the “Listen Subscriptions” folder. Subscribed feed items are fresh, no longer limited in size, and are available offline (and more quickly). Screen “My listen items” shows queued and most recently [...]

Alex Sokirynsky, developer of the banned iPhone app Podcaster, is using the little known “ad hoc” method to distribute his software, via the site NextDayOff. Podcaster is designed to let you subscribe, manage, stream and download podcasts directly to your iPhone and iPod Touch. Some, like Read Write Web‘s Sarah Perez, think this may let developers [...]

Almerica reports that Apple has rejected the hotly anticipated Podcaster iPhone application from the App Store: Today I finally got a reply from Apple about the status of Podcaster. Apple Rep says: Since Podcaster assists in the distribution of podcasts, it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes. That’s right folks, it duplicates [...]

Russell Holliman, Founder and CEO of Podcast Ready, tells us his company has just signed a distribution deal with consumer electronics manufacturer Coby that he expects will ship 5-10 million mp3-player/ podcatching devices over the next 12 months, starting with the fourth quarter of this year. By Holliman’s reckoning, “that brings the total projected to [...]

Added to podcast software list: Podpuppy is a free Podcast reciever for Windows. You can use it to subscribe to podcasts and automatically receive sound and video files as they are released by the author. PodPuppy is easy to use, supports the major podcast formats and provides the basic functions of a podcast receiver. The [...]

Doga Armangil, author of the command-line podcast client Armangil’s Podcatcher, has announced the release of version 2.0.0. The update adds major new features to the software, including the ability to download any type of content (video, audio, MP3 only, etc), and downloading content in chronological order. Details are available at the Podcatcher site. Armangil’s podcatcher [...]