A 23-year old Minnesota teacher has announced plans to stream the birth of her first child over the Internet to anyone that wants to watch. “We wanted to share this experience,” Lynsee said about the decision she made with her husband Anders. “If I were in a classroom, I’d be teaching about development. It was [...]

Is there anything currently hotter than the iPhone? If Hugh Hefner gets his way, it will be the iPhone plus iPlayboy, a collection of downloadable multimedia features. Hef’s multimedia offering includes photos, audio and video, all formatted for the iPhone. “We have always tried to stay ahead of the curve by delivering the fun, sophistication [...]

Elizabeth Arden is giving away ten limited-edition 30-gigabyte video iPod’s autographed by Britney Spears as part of a three-week promotion of Britney Spears’ Midnight Fantasy perfume. “Fragrances are one of the many ways I express my creativity,” says Britney Spears. “My fans are so talented and I hope that they enjoy capturing their own creative [...]

March 29: It’s 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we’re highlighting a great free music podcast. One of the things that is great about music podcasts is that they let you explore whole categories of music that mainstream radio tends to ignore. A great example of this is [...]

The 2007 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition is out. As always, it features shots of some of the most beautiful women of the world photographed in exotic places. This year, though, it also features some interesting product placement, and the magazine’s take on the iPod bikini. Not safe for work…..

7 women of podcasting have banded together for Podshow’s Showgirls, a new podcast starring Cali Lewis from Geekbrief TV, Share from Rock and Roll TV, KFC from the Podchick podcast, Anji Bee from the Chillcast, SoccerGirl from SoccerGirl Incorporated and Karla and Karen from Rumor Girls along with moderator Franklin McMahon. “It’s evident that in [...]

What do you get when you mix Amanda Condgon, body oil and video chat? Starring Amanda Congdon, a new video blog, featuring the video blogger and former Rocketboom host scheduled, to debut today on Blip.tv. The show is one of the first video blogs to debut with the support of major sponsors, Dove Cream Oil [...]

Baptist for Women, a division of Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi, has launched the new podcast series “Women’s Health Inside Out.” The ongoing series will address a variety of women’s health issues. Baptist public relations coordinator Rhonda McRae said, “We find more and more people searching for health information via the Internet. We think [...]

Unilever has signed on to sponsor a new venture at Marie Claire, a women’s style magazine. Unilever will sponsor the magazine’s first video podcast series, The Masthead with Marie Claire, which will launch Jan. 2. Hosted by editor-in-chief Joanna Coles and featuring the magazine’s editorial staff, the five-minute bi-monthly video podcasts will offer an inside [...]

Pamela Gay, a physics professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, is the co-host of Astronomy Cast, a new podcast that takes a “weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos.” “I’ve always been interested in popularizing astronomy and how to get more people interested in what I do,” said Gay, of Edwardsville. She is joined by Fraser [...]