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At the Digital Hollywood conference, where entertainment industry representatives are meeting to discuss technology and trends in digital content delivery, David Hughes of the RIAA made bold ...
Date: 8 May 2008 19:05 | 16 comments
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According to Asahi Shimbun report, the Japanese government is set to propose a plan that will charge "copyright royalties on sales of iPods and other portable digital music players, as well ...
Date: 7 May 2008 18:05 | 5 comments
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Trying everything in its power to catch up to the market leading Apple iPod, Microsoft has released a new update for their Zune player that attempts to bring more social aspects into music file ...
Date: 7 May 2008 17:05 | 7 comments
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At Sun Microsystem's 2008 JavaONE conference, being held this week in San Francisco, one of the topics being discussed is the use of Java in Blu-ray movie (BD-MV) authoring. The keynote speaker ...
Date: 7 May 2008 05:05 | 1 comment
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If the indie music collective group Merlin has its way, then smaller music labels could be getting better deals for their content on iTunes and other legal online music stores in the near future.
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Date: 5 May 2008 22:05 | 2 comments
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Nine Inch Nails has released a new album called The Slip under creative commons license and it is completely free to download. The group encourages everyone to "remix it, share it with your ...
Date: 5 May 2008 10:05 | 7 comments
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It's no great surprise that video game retailers are very happy with the release of GTA IV, the latest installment of Rockstar Games' wildly successful Grand Theft Auto series. What is a little ...
Date: 5 May 2008 05:05 | 14 comments
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Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke has confirmed in an interview that they will no longer be offering any of its albums on a "pay-as-you-please" purchase model, and that "In Rainbows" was a one time deal.
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Date: 3 May 2008 22:05 | 11 comments
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Creative has become the second company to settle with consumers over a class action lawsuit started in 2005 that companies are "misrepresenting the number of files and hours of songs that players ...
Date: 2 May 2008 22:05 | 20 comments
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Nokia's hyped all-you-can-eat music service, Comes with the Music, has backfired in a devastating manner. Comes with the Music was launched as a service that would allow new mobile phone buyers ...
Date: 29 Apr 2008 14:04 | 4 comments
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Nokia is set to launch Australia's first subscription music service tomorrow in an effort to use its huge music industry clout to knock Apples' iTunes platform from the top.
The service ...
Date: 21 Apr 2008 17:04 | 4 comments
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According to a new analysis by The NPD Group, Amazon's MP3 store is having little to no effect on the flourishing success of the iTunes store.
The study revealed that only a measly 10 percent ...
Date: 15 Apr 2008 21:04 | 19 comments
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In January, Last.FM began offering music streaming on-demand instead of by simple genre or keyword searches. Three times a day users can listen to a track of their choosing regardless of artist or genre.
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Date: 13 Apr 2008 22:04 | 7 comments
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According to a new Jupiter research study, "a combination of disinterest and unnecessary hurdles" is currently stopping most mobile phone users from using mobile music downloads.
Out of the ...
Date: 13 Apr 2008 22:04 | 20 comments
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Sony has introduced its brand new headphones which it claims to be the first digital noise-canceling set, cutting out a 99 percent of ambient noise by Sony's calculations. The MDR-NC500D product ...
Date: 8 Apr 2008 01:04 | 16 comments
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Imeem (legally "imeem") has announced the acquisition of SNOCAP for an undisclosed amount to the press today. The leading social media networking site made the strategic acquisition of SNOCAP ...
Date: 7 Apr 2008 23:04
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Chinese Internet company Baidu may be forced by a Chinese court to damages claims totaling US$9 million to three record companies. The claim is the tip of the iceberg in a copyright infringement ...
Date: 7 Apr 2008 11:04 | 1 comment
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Along with being an internationally known nut, who headed up the "Manson Family" responsible for the death of actress Sharon Tate and other horrible crimes, Charles Manson always considered ...
Date: 6 Apr 2008 01:04 | 10 comments
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In the growing market for digital music downloads and related services, the companies who can provide the tech have to pay huge sums of cash to get label support. In the last year we have seen ...
Date: 6 Apr 2008 01:04 | 7 comments
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The world's largest video-sharing website, YouTube, has teamed up with The Rolling Stones to launch a new entertainment channel for fans. A statement from Universal Music Group and the band ...
Date: 4 Apr 2008 23:04 | 1 comment
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Victoria Police raided a music retailer in Sydney Road, Brunswick in Melbourne earlier today, seizing thousands of allegedly pirate music CDs and DVDs. The successful raid by Victoria Police ...
Date: 3 Apr 2008 23:04 | 5 comments
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The iPhone Dev Team has delivered the Mac OSX version of a much-anticipated software development kit (SDK) for the development of "unsigned code" to be used with iPod Touch and iPhone. This ...
Date: 3 Apr 2008 23:04 | 5 comments
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Radiohead is once again reaching out to fans on the Internet after using it to make the band's latest album "In Rainbows" a chart-topping success. Last year, Radiohead released the album for ...
Date: 2 Apr 2008 22:04 | 3 comments
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EMI Music has appointed the chief information officer from Google and one of its most senior global executives, Douglas Merrill, to lead its growing digital music business. Merrill will head ...
Date: 2 Apr 2008 22:04 | 1 comment
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As many of you surely have been following this story, which has been posted to nearly every user-driven link-sharing service, Creative Labs appeared to threaten a third-party driver developer ...
Date: 2 Apr 2008 04:04 | 18 comments
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Denmark's biggest ISP, TDC, is to offer a music download service along with its Internet broadband packages. The songs which can be downloaded by customers are restricted by Digital Rights Management ...
Date: 2 Apr 2008 04:04 | 2 comments
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Although they closed down the service last June, it seems that Sony BMG is looking to resurrect its Connect music service.
Sony CEO Rolf Schmidt-Holtz has confirmed the launch of what users ...
Date: 29 Mar 2008 21:03 | 20 comments
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The Bodleian Library in Oxford and Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC have announced plans to reproduce all 75 editions of William Shakespeare's plays printed before 1641, online.
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Date: 26 Mar 2008 22:03 | 19 comments
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Earlier this year I was forced to find a replacement for Windows Media Center in order to use the latest version of Windows Media Player to support the Netflix Streaming service's DRM. After ...
Date: 26 Mar 2008 17:03
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After launching a music service six months ago that only offers digital audio downloads without Digital Rights Management (DRM), Amazon has taken the No. 2 spot in sales after Apple Inc.'s iTunes. ...
Date: 26 Mar 2008 12:03 | 9 comments
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According to Sony BMG Chief Executive Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, the music giant is currently developing a music download service that would offer unlimited access to the company's catalog on a subscription ...
Date: 25 Mar 2008 21:03 | 3 comments
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It appears that Sony BMG and Warner are close to signing a deal for the upcoming MySpace Music online store that would make their entire music catalogs available to the service.
The service ...
Date: 24 Mar 2008 22:03 | 2 comments
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According to a study by MultiMedia Intelligence, 50 percent of all phones shipped worldwide will be music-capable by 2011. The report also estimates that the Cell phone market itself will remain ...
Date: 24 Mar 2008 22:03 | 2 comments
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SanDisk is supporting more than 50 emerging and critically acclaimed artists and promoting DRM-free audio on a MicroSD card. This U.S.-based program from a leader in the MP3 player market is ...
Date: 23 Mar 2008 21:03
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In an effort to give back to loyal customers, Apple has said that they will be offering credits or refunds to those with Season Passes to the iTunes Store that were affected by the Writer's ...
Date: 23 Mar 2008 21:03 | 2 comments
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Today we have another new guide, this time on installing and configuring AC3Filter. Like most of the tools I've been writing about recently, AC3Filter is free and yet full featured and quite ...
Date: 21 Mar 2008 07:03 | 7 comments
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Dell is reportedly making a comeback to the handheld device market and could be teaming up with large manufacturer Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) to develop Windows Mobile-based ...
Date: 19 Mar 2008 22:03 | 6 comments
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According to Financial Times Apple is in talks with big music companies to use a completely new business model for iTunes. The kind of "all you can eat" model would give premium iPod or iPhone ...
Date: 19 Mar 2008 09:03 | 9 comments
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According to the French newspaper Les Echos, Microsoft officials have suggested that a third generation of its popular Zune media player is in the works and that a European launch of the player ...
Date: 17 Mar 2008 18:03 | 2 comments
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Last week the popular rock band Nine Inch Nails began offering their latest album exclusively as a digital download on their website, and those sales, along with orders for an expensive collector's ...
Date: 16 Mar 2008 21:03 | 12 comments
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Despite widespread rumors to the contrary, Apple has denied all claims that the Beatles catalog is set to be made available through the company's iTunes platform. A spokesman even called the ...
Date: 15 Mar 2008 22:03 | 3 comments
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The large European mobile phone carrier O2 has announced a partnership with Napster to "offer the UK's largest full Track mobile music download
service."
There is however, one hitch. Your ...
Date: 15 Mar 2008 16:03
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At a panel discussion called 'Mobility, Ubiquity and Monetizing Music,' which will be held tomorrow at the SXSW (South By Southwest) Music And Media Conference in Austin Texas, the focus is ...
Date: 13 Mar 2008 20:03 | 22 comments
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Apple's popular iPod Nano shoots out sparks in Japan when being plugged into a charger, reports Reuters. The Japan Trade Ministry stated that this incident will initiate an investigation into ...
Date: 12 Mar 2008 18:03 | 14 comments
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A decade has passed since the world's first MP3 player hit the shop shelves. Saehan Information Systems' MPMan F10, a Korean wonder at the time, was the first music player that was capable of ...
Date: 12 Mar 2008 11:03 | 10 comments
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On Thursday Steve Jobs officially unveiled the SDK (Software Development Kit) that will be released for writing software to work with Apple's iPhone and various iPod Touch models. During his ...
Date: 7 Mar 2008 09:03 | 3 comments
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According to the Financial Times, online social-networking site Facebook has approached the world's largest record companies about the possibility of opening a music download service. The report ...
Date: 6 Mar 2008 23:03
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According to Greenpeace, consumer electronics are slowing becoming greener but still have a long way to go to eliminate the use of more hazardous and toxic chemicals and to become more energy ...
Date: 6 Mar 2008 23:03 | 10 comments
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German Police and Customs Officials investigating claims of patent violations have seized dozens of boxes of tech gadgets and equipment at CeBIT, a tech fair held annually in Hanover. The alleged ...
Date: 6 Mar 2008 21:03 | 4 comments
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7Digital.com is the first online music retailer to offer customers in the U.K., Ireland, Spain, France, and Germany DRM-free songs from Warner Music. Previously Warner's only deal for the DRM-free ...
Date: 5 Mar 2008 06:03 | 4 comments
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Trent Reznor, who last year was involved in an experiment to distribute an album he produced for Saul Williams by giving downloaders the option to either pay nothing for MP3s or $5 for CD quality ...
Date: 4 Mar 2008 08:03 | 16 comments
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The RIAA is trying to convince the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), which is responsible for setting the mechanical (automatic) royalty rates paid for music publication, that the flat rate ...
Date: 4 Mar 2008 07:03 | 9 comments
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Although they're not saying yet, it appears that Apple's strategy to meet their lofty sales goal of 10 million iPhones (from launch to the end of this year) involves looking to the business ...
Date: 28 Feb 2008 05:02 | 4 comments
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According to data from the NPD Group, after last year's increase in legal online music sales iTunes has become the number two music retailer in the country. During 2007 only Wal-Mart outperformed ...
Date: 27 Feb 2008 04:02 | 8 comments
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Universal Music Netherlands has struck a deal with Fabchannel allowing the webcaster, which offers live shows from two clubs in Amsterdam, to offer streaming performances from Universal artists ...
Date: 26 Feb 2008 04:02 | 1 comment
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With the increase in new content at Afterdawn over the last year, we've had a hard time keeping you informed of the resources we have available in our Guides section. In order to let you know ...
Date: 25 Feb 2008 09:02 | 2 comments
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The Songwriters Association of Canada (SAC) have revealed a new proposal that would allow all Canadian citizens to download as much unauthorized music as they please for the low, flat-rate of ...
Date: 24 Feb 2008 23:02 | 33 comments
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Jello Biafra, the former Dead Kennedys lead singer, recently had a few choice words for the RIAA, going as far as to say that the group reminds him of the mafia.
“I have two different opinions ...
Date: 23 Feb 2008 23:02 | 18 comments
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It turns out the British government isn't actually considering a three-strikes plan for dealing with internet pirates. According to Andy Burnham, culture secretary, suggestions to force ISP ...
Date: 23 Feb 2008 08:02 | 4 comments
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Sony BMG has announced that it had signed a deal with Thumplay that will add another 7000 pieces of content to the growing mobile media service.
Currently the service offers 80000 ringtones, ...
Date: 21 Feb 2008 21:02 | 1 comment
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San Francisco based doubleTwist launched a new service today for transferring digital media between a variety of devices, including computers, portable media players, and mobile phones. The ...
Date: 20 Feb 2008 04:02 | 3 comments
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Apple has announced that they have dropped the price of their popular iPod Shuffle model after growth drastically slowed for the last quarter.
The 1GB 2nd Generation Shuffle will now cost ...
Date: 19 Feb 2008 19:02 | 12 comments
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It was only a matter of time before the BitTorrent community decided to take on the "network management" practices of ISPs like Comcast. According to TorrentFreak that's exactly what a small ...
Date: 19 Feb 2008 04:02 | 11 comments
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Motorola has announced that it will be completing its previously announced acquisition of Soundbuzz, the Singapore-based provider of digital music downloads. In fact, Soundbuzz is the leading ...
Date: 18 Feb 2008 22:02 | 2 comments
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The Super Bowl is perhaps the best known advertising spectacle in the world, but it's not just advertisers who can benefit from increased sales after the big game. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ...
Date: 17 Feb 2008 03:02 | 7 comments
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The European Commission is set to consult over the current copyright levy systems in place in many EU states. Copyright levies can apply to anything from blank CDs and DVDs to MP3 players and ...
Date: 16 Feb 2008 06:02 | 4 comments
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European internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has indicated he will propose longer copyright terms for recordings in the European Union, stating he wanted to bring "fairness" into the ...
Date: 16 Feb 2008 00:02 | 5 comments
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Brick and mortar retailer Borders is hoping to be competitive with online stores like Amazon.com by introducing a new type of store designed to appeal to consumers accustomed to getting what ...
Date: 15 Feb 2008 03:02 | 10 comments
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Another week has gone by, and as I threatened last week I'm continuing to update the Glossary. Here are the highlights of my updates over the last week.
MPEG-4 Part 10 - MPEG-4 Part 10 ...
Date: 15 Feb 2008 02:02 | 1 comment
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Google has announced plans to enter the Chinese online music market for the first time by joining up with the popular Top100.cn, which allows users "to listen to and download licensed music ...
Date: 14 Feb 2008 20:02 | 2 comments
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It appears like British officials are looking to follow French President Nicolas Sarkozy's lead and consider putting illegal downloaders on warning with a "three strikes" law. The proposed law ...
Date: 12 Feb 2008 06:02 | 54 comments
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The star hip-hop producer Timbaland has announced that he has made a deal with Verizon Wireless to produce the first ever "mobile album" which will be exclusively available on V Cast.
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Date: 10 Feb 2008 23:02 | 15 comments
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), which among other things is responsible for enforcing federal antitrust laws, is apparently suspicious of record labels intentions with respect to a new ...
Date: 8 Feb 2008 04:02 | 3 comments
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Toshiba has announced that it has updated two models in its Gigabeat media player line, one in the T series and the other in the V series.
The new T802 is an upgrade to the T401 and will ...
Date: 7 Feb 2008 21:02 | 1 comment
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Yesterday, the subscription-based online music retailer Napster announced that thanks to a 15 percent jump in revenue from subscriptions the company has posted a much smaller Q3 loss for 2007 ...
Date: 7 Feb 2008 20:02 | 6 comments
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As Jamie (Dela) announced last month, the staff here at Afterdawn is working on updating some of our core content in the Glossary. Along with additions like our new Topics feature we're planning ...
Date: 7 Feb 2008 20:02 | 1 comment
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According to many music label executives, manufacturers of portable music players should be paying them a cut of profits since their sales are predicated on the availability of recorded music. ...
Date: 6 Feb 2008 05:02 | 5 comments
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Yet another defendant in a RIAA file sharing lawsuit has decided to fight back. On behalf of his client Rolando Armurao, who is accused of illegally distribution of more than 500 songs using ...
Date: 6 Feb 2008 04:02 | 9 comments
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Apple has announced that it has updated its iPhone and iPod Touch lineup by adding new models with double the memory capacity.
The new iPhone will feature 16GB of memory and will retail for ...
Date: 5 Feb 2008 21:02 | 15 comments
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Yahoo has announced that it is selling its digital music subscription service to Rhapsody America in an effort to revamp its struggling music strategy.
Yahoo Music will still offer its music ...
Date: 4 Feb 2008 23:02 | 8 comments
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Amazon has announced it plans to buy out Audible for about $300 million USD, expanding the company's interests in the digital audio market. Those familiar with the acquisition say the purchase ...
Date: 1 Feb 2008 21:02 | 5 comments
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U2 manager Paul McGuinness recently made a big impression at the MIDEM music industry convention in Cannes by calling out everyone from ISPs to customers. Sounding much like he was reading talking ...
Date: 31 Jan 2008 04:01 | 40 comments
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According to Gene Munster, an Apple analyst from investment bank Piper Jaffray, the leading MP3 player manufacturer is likely to bring new cheaper iPods that would be like the recently released ...
Date: 30 Jan 2008 14:01 | 13 comments
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As music labels sit by and watch their decades old business model crumble before their eyes, yet another artist is attempting to make the leap past CD technology. Neil Young has apparently decided ...
Date: 30 Jan 2008 05:01 | 10 comments
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Amid all the hype at the MIDEM music trade show in France around Qtrax's announcement of the free music service that wasn't, a more important story is emerging with the presentation by Jean ...
Date: 29 Jan 2008 07:01 | 16 comments
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The large mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has announced that it has signed deals with 10 major record labels so it can add content to its PlayNow service, which allows users to download music ...
Date: 29 Jan 2008 05:01 | 1 comment
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Several hours after their announced launch, and even a few hours after an Afterdawn member posted a link to the much anticipated client software, Qtrax now officially has a download link on ...
Date: 29 Jan 2008 03:01 | 25 comments
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It's two hours after the official Qtrax launch time and there's still no sign of a client for download. Since the story of the new P2P based, ad-supported online music service became hot news ...
Date: 28 Jan 2008 07:01 | 18 comments
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Amazon has announced that in 2008 the company will begin to expand Amazon MP3, its popular DRM-free digital music store to the international stage. The service, which is seen as a strong competitor ...
Date: 27 Jan 2008 23:01 | 3 comments
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A new free music download service is getting ready to launch. A P2P-based service called Qtrax is supposed to be going live today, offering 100% ad-supported music downloads, and apparently ...
Date: 27 Jan 2008 07:01 | 11 comments
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The past eight years has been a struggle between the music industry and P2P downloads. Since Napster launched in 1999 and brought the peer-to-peer downloads to the mainstream, the International ...
Date: 25 Jan 2008 10:01 | 20 comments
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According to the IFPI's annual report on the music industry, released today, it was innovative labels, rather than frustrated consumers or knowledgable online store management who came up with ...
Date: 25 Jan 2008 04:01 | 5 comments
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Yahoo is reportedly working on a plan to launch a MP3 download service some time this year. The company is apparently engaged in preliminary talks with the major music labels, but still hasn't ...
Date: 25 Jan 2008 01:01 | 1 comment
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Music sold worldwide had a substantial decline in 2007 and fell faster than 2006 even while digital distribution sales have been seemingly soaring. As is the usual argument, the industry is ...
Date: 24 Jan 2008 15:01 | 15 comments
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Despite increased sales and an increased profit margin over the year before, Apple's stock ended the day down more than 3% on Tuesday after the company reported both earnings for the last three ...
Date: 23 Jan 2008 22:01 | 3 comments
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As part of an initiative to come up with a common standard for connecting portable digital audio and video devices to everything from home stereos to car entertainment systems, the Consumer ...
Date: 23 Jan 2008 19:01 | 8 comments
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