USATODAY.com, a leading news and information Web site, announces the launch of "Talking Tech," a weekly video podcast hosted by USA TODAY personal technology columnists Ed Baig and Jefferson Graham

It seems like a Nano could be bumped up to 12GB.

Gilles Peterson in association with Brahma has produced podcasts featuring historic in-depth interviews with A-Z of Brazilian music from Milton Nascimento to Tom Zé featuring exclusive live sessions from Seu Jorge to Celso Fonseca.

Eddie Izzard is to present Downing Street's first podcast, with Blair playing his usual role as the straight man.

Not to be left out The Daily Mirror have followed The Times and The Guardian by offering their own World Cup podcast.

Ricky Gervais' comedy podcasts will be available from the Daily Mirror's website thanks to a joint venture between with audio books download company Audible.

A survey of undergraduate college students at 100 U.S. College's showed that iPods are more popular than beer amongst college students.

UK media company Chrysalis Radio is planning to launch a podcast production service to create tailored programs for its clients. Chrysalis Content will build on existing podcasts from clients including Honda and AOL and create content such as city travel guides and target fields like fashion and beauty.

Two companies have released iPod guides to help those traveling to Germany for the tournament. MyCityMate has created a free 12-city guide that contains roughly 750 venues—from restaurants to bars and clubs to points of interest—for the host cities in Germany. Coolgorilla, who recently released an iPod World Cup guide with schedule and player information, has announced a new German translation guide for the iPod.

Apple have released an upgraded U2 iPod with 10 additional gigabytes of space (making it 30GB), which holds about 7,500 songs. It will also display video and photos. Super-fans might froth a bit more over the unit, especially since it comes with a coupon for 30 minutes of exclusive U2 video that can only be found at on iTunes.

Not to be outdone by The Times, The Guardian have launched their own World Cup Podcast.

23,000 listeners have downloaded The Times first World Cup podcast created by Baddiel and Skinner.

Apple Computer is out with a summer promotion that offers free iPods for college students, educators and PTA/PTO members in the US who buy a new MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac or Power Mac G5.

Harvard Business School Publishing announced it has launched HBR IdeaCast, a biweekly podcast that will feature business issues, management ideas and other commentary from the editors and authors at Harvard Business School Publishing.

This week's podcast from Stuff magazine's debates the merits of watching TV on your laptop or PSP using Sony's Location Free TV or the Slingbox.

first direct podcast series has been launched today offering financial advice on a range of issues. The first direct podcast series will be available to download as an audio file; the first podcast will go live in June and will concern the security of online banking.