NewTeeVee |
August 29th, 2008 |
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One of the problems with Comcast's new 250 GB bandwidth cap is that, as Om points out on GigaOM, it's metered without a meter. Comcast doesn't provide you with a central tally of all your data use. The company instead suggests its customers install bandwidth metering software on their machines [...]
Seeking Alpha |
August 29th, 2008 |
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Napster (NAPS) this morning mailed a letter to shareholders advising them not to vote for three dissident investors - Perry H. Rod, Thomas Sailors and Kavan P. Singh - who are seeking seats on the company’s board, and to instead back the three incumbents seeking to keep their seats. Not [...]
SF Chronicle |
August 29th, 2008 |
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General Motors Corp. says it will offer optional radios with USB ports for personal music players on most of its 2009 models. The new radios, which will be available by the middle of the model year, will allow customers to play music from iPods or MP3 players[...]
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August 29th, 2008 |
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Internet users who downloaded podcasts to watch or listen to later increased from 12% to 19% since last year, according to a study by The Pew Internet and American Life Project. In early 2006, only 7% of Web users downloaded podcasts for later use. The study showed that 22% of [...]
MediaPost |
August 29th, 2008 |
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As multifaceted TV personality Tyra Banks seeks more opportunities, her umbrella company has hired a new top executive. Formerly with Sony BMG, Susan Moultrie joins Bankable Enterprises as COO.[...]
Troubled online music retailer Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) has hired UBS (again) to explore strategic alternatives, including a possible sale. The news was made in a letter to shareholders, urging them not to vote for three outside activists, looking to get representation on the board. In the letter, the company notes [...]
Seeking Alpha |
August 29th, 2008 |
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The following relates to my previous article on how digital music is drastically changing the economics of the music business in such a way that it's hurting profitably: (From the WSJ): "...a growing number of record companies are trying to steer clear of Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) behemoth music store, because [...]
Wired |
August 29th, 2008 |
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On the wall behind Leland Chee's desk is a portrait of an Ithorian, an alien with a hammer-shaped head that you glimpse briefly in the famous Star Wars cantina scene. In its leathery, foot-long fingers, the Ithorian holds a cube decorated with elaborate metallic tracings, a device known as a [...]
MediaPost |
August 28th, 2008 |
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For more than five years, the RIAA has attempted to stem piracy by litigating against individual file-sharers. Now, the group has arranged to have a blogger indicted for posting tracks from an unreleased Guns N' Roses album.[...]
Portfolio |
August 28th, 2008 |
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The prospect of a touchscreen Mac tablet is looking more like a reality, with purportedly leaked illustrations of Apple's patent filing demonstrating the technology. AppleInsider claims it discovered the report, containing 52 pages describing how the tablet will detect simultaneous touches and motions. The tablet would take the existing touchscreen [...]
Isn't this how the labels got in trouble to begin with? By making customers buy an entire, overpriced CD to get the single, the only track they wanted, oftentimes the only good track on the album?Pulling acts from iTunes is akin to winning the pennant but refusing to play in [...]
GigaOM |
August 28th, 2008 |
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I was talking to an executive at a major label the other day. We were talking about startups and he noted that they either sue these companies out of business or legitimize them out of business. That is not far from the truth. How many legitimate, standalone digital businesses can [...]
Portfolio |
August 28th, 2008 |
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Kevin Maney writes: A Wall Street Journal story seems to imply that keeping songs off iTunes is the equivalent of plugging a leak. Instead of buying songs off Apple's dominant service, fans are forced to slog to a store and buy the physical CD, so CD sales are better than [...]
Portfolio |
August 28th, 2008 |
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- The West Wing writer Aaron Sorkin is developing a movie about Facebook, to be produced by Scott Rudin, for Sony Pictures. [Portfolio.com]- The major record companies are looking for alternatives to Apple's iTunes music store. We've heard this before. [WSJ, PaidContent]- Consumers increasingly want computers wiped free of packaged [...]
Seeking Alpha |
August 28th, 2008 |
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The Olympics have ended. The athletes are heading home. Songs for Tibet is off of the iTunes main page, but it is apparently still available for sale. The iTunes music store is once again accessible from China. Maths over at Music2dot0 did us all a real service by expanding my [...]
No, this isn't the big one, but nonetheless an important precedent: A federal judge in San Jose ruled today that video-sharing site Veoh was not liable for copyrighted material uploaded to its site, dismissing an early 2006 case filed against it by Io Group, an adult video firm. The site [...]
