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Bridge Ratings, a California company that conducts radio-audience research, estimated last month that 4.8 million people have downloaded at least one podcast this year compared with 820,000 last year. About a fifth listen regularly. Though many are using computers to do it, the rapidly growing portable market also expands the potential podcast reach. About 35 million households have portable music devices such as the iPod, according to JupiterResearch, which analyzes Internet and new-technology trends. That's double the number last year, and it will double again by 2010, the company predicts.">Corporations go off a-podcasting - baltimoresun.com : "Bridge Ratings, a California company that conducts radio-audience research, estimated last month that 4.8 million people have downloaded at least one podcast this year compared with 820,000 last year. About a fifth listen regularly. Though many are using computers to do it, the rapidly growing portable market also expan

In tonight's top story: Could you be arrested for having wireless networking in your home? Our crime beat team will cover this important development. Wireless networking, like knives, guns and explosives, can be used in the commission of a crime. Therefore, wi-fi...bad. Tech Dirt points out, "...there [are] a number of terrible things being done, and the use of open WiFi -- the least of the issues -- [gets] all the attention." "In this first case, we had someone arrested for: (1) driving the wrong way down a one way street (2) driving without any pants on (3) using a laptop while driving (4) using that laptop to download child porn (5) which he accessed via a free WiFi connection. "In another case, a scam was committed in Finland involving the financial firm GE Money: (1) the company's own head of data security (2) stole banking software from the company after which he (3) took confidential users passwords for its bank accounts. He then (4) st

It's almost 1 AM CST, making it almost 2 in New York. So, where's my new episode of Keith and the Girl? How disappointed was I? I had to listen to Dawn & Drew. Keith and the Girl

Doesn't it happen to us all once in a while?

Two renditions of CSI and no West Wing? Two and a Half Men comes in at number 16, but Sorkin's baby not among the hot 16 TV shows in the November sweeps? Desperate Friggin Housewives, for chrissake!!?? NBC doesn't even show up in the top 12 shows! Prime-Time Nielsen Ratings - Yahoo! News

It made for good follies, but looks like the fun may be over. Although I'll believe it when I see it, Oprah finally finds her sense of humor and agrees to appear on Letterman. Letterman finally gets Oprah to return - Yahoo! News

Adolescence abounds Monday following the accidental airing of a cue marker during CNN's airing of VP Cheney's live speech. Can we get more childish? CNN explains 'X' glitch over Dick Cheney's face - Yahoo! News