Podcasting, a new type of Web broadcasting via digital music players like the Apple iPod, might prove a boon for businesses that are increasingly catching on to its novel commercial potential.
After making its debut in Japan around late 2004, podcasting, or distribution of sound files, has grown in popularity at an impressive speed.
Programming on offer includes news, music, language lessons, interviews, book readings and comic performances.
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