Yesterday Apple (hat-tip to Podcasting News for details) announced a number of new iPods and price changes.

For me three things stood out.

1. Steve Jobs announcing iTunes now had 125k podcast feeds showing how fast the medium is growing. As part of that he also announced that 25k of those are video podcasts.
2. The launch of the video enable Nano at a low price
3. The price reduction of the 80G iPod and renaming as the Classic.

For many corporates this puts the delivery of video and audio podcasts to customers and employees well with budget.

When working in business I remember the high costs of organising training and update events for employees and channel partners. We would vdeo record them for those that missed it and then have to distribute videos or CDs/DVD's physically via the post. What a logistics exercise! We could always guarantee someone would ring saying theirs had arrive damaged or with bits missing or had not arrived at all.

How much easier to create a package of information and deliver it online. How great for remote based staff to get the information and be able to take it with them while they commute or have to hand just before they have to make a presentation as a last minute refresh.