Catch the new third season FREE premiere episode as video podcast from the acclaimed Showtime series " The Tudors " in the Zune Marketplace . THE TUDORS focus is on the rarely dramatized, tumultuous early years of King Henry 8's nearly 40-year, omnipotent reign of England played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers. This early release premiere episode will not be airing on Showtime until April 5th.

Everyone has switched into fall mode and that has translated into a huge jump in podcast interest in the Zune Podcast Marketplace software . This is an annual rite of passage, that summer is the time when podcast usage dips and then it comes stampeding back in the Fall and Winter. Well, this year is no exception and we have seen a 30% or more jump in new podcast subscriptions from August to September . This heightened activity around podcasts involves Zune users discovering great new podcasts in...

Greetings from Las Vegas! As Rob mentioned , we're here at the New Media Expo this week. Are you in town? Head over to Quark, the Star Trek restaurant here in Las Vegas . Come by, have a drink, say hello, ask about Zune - anything. See you there!

The 4th Annual New Media Expo (formerly called the Podcast & Portable Media Expo) starts today, August 14-16 in hot Las Vegas. I am sitting in the lobby of the Hilton next to the Las Vegas Convention Center and podcasters from all over the country are coming to town to meet-up with old friends and are here to learn about what is new with podcasting. This year, I have been able to pull together a major Zune sponsorship and exhibition at the show. This is a great opportunity to for Zune to establish...