There are two types of popular search reports. The first kind gives users a cleaned-up version so they won’t offend their visitors and users.

Korean electronics giant Samsung will make two portable mp3 players that can carry XM Satellite Radio content.

Apple delivers its best quarterly performance according to Steve Jobs, led by hot iPod sales.

Tim Kaine, Virginia’s lieutenant governor and candidate for the state’s top job, has his first “podcast” promoted heavily on his home page. Problem is, it isn’t a podcast, just a downloadable audio file.

Podcasts can help authors promote and sell books. I have already written about how podcasts can be developed into a large scale internet radio station. Bloggers can provide the content via podcast and the station can be far more wide ranging than simply the blogging audience.

The devotees and the curious wasted little time in taking to their iTunes consoles and signing up for a variety of podcasts.

Though the Cupertino-based producer of iTunes has about 3,000 podcasts on tap for free, they’re missing one.

According to blinkx founder Suranga Chandratillake, podcasting is one of the fastest growing mediums ever, with large amounts of new content coming out daily. Insight into Suranga’s mindset sheds light on the reasoning behind the newest feature to be integrated into the blinkx search engine: the ability to search podcasts.

The recent explosion of the podcast has caught the attention of Apple Computers Inc. Apple plans to ride the podcast shockwave by providing access to podcasts though the latest version of iTunes.

As promised by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the latest version of iTunes, 4.9, supports podcasting.

One immediate user benefit from last month’s acquisition of FeedDemon by Newsgator is that a new version (beta) of FeedDemon’s FeedStation podcatcher was released yesterday which supports NewsGator Online and, soon, NewsGator Outlook Edition…

Newsnight, the BBC’s flagship news and current affairs TV programme in the UK, will be blogging the G8 summit in Scotland on 6-8 July.

According to new forecasts from The Diffusion Group, a US-based consumer technology research consultancy, demand for time-shifted digital audio files – that’s ‘podcasts’ to you and me – is expected to grow from less than 15% of portable digital music player owners in the US in 2004 to 75% by 2010.

Podcasting knows no boundaries as a communication channel. It was just a matter of time before high-profile and internationaly-known politicians embraced this medium.

We need to position blogs correctly, now more than ever, as businesses realize their potential….

I reported recently on an ITWorld.com article that listed five reasons businesses should consider podcasting. One of them was that podcasts encourage two-way communication with listeners. Specifically, according to the author James Lewin,

Scoble lists all the goodness going on at Gnomedex in late June. Lets play “bold-faced names” with who’s there…

Podcasting is increasing in popularity and, realizing that many are interested in providing audio content in a podcast, we have assembled a collection of tools that make creation, promotion and listening to podcasts a little easier.

Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, announced at the Wall Street Journal’s “D3: All Things Digital” conference in San Diego that the next iteration of Apple’s iTunes software will accommodate podcasts.

Is podcasting really starting to move as a serious business communication tool, never mind it’s entertainment appeal? Yet more signs:  1. iTunes to directly support podcasts…

Podcasts are a growing internet phenomenon. I have discussed podcasts before along with some of their possibilities and potential uses.