LA Times |
August 30th, 2008 |
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The shareholders, seeking board seats, want the digital music service to turn around its stock slump or pursue a sale. Napster Inc. has struggled to catch the ear of enough customers. Now the company is out of tune with some of its big shareholders.[...]
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[...]
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.[...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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 [...]
With an iPhone or iPod Touch, Apple's new program Remote can convert an MP3 player into a sophisticated remote control for digital-music collections.[...]
A growing number of record companies are starting to think Apple's iTunes service is crimping overall sales.[...]
Wired |
August 27th, 2008 |
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The American Bar Association, the nation's largest lawyer advocacy group, says investigators like those from the Recording Industry Association of America don't need private investigator licenses from the states. Several states are demanding such licenses from the investigators who detect file sharers sharing unauthorized copyrighted material. The ABA said judges, [...]
Portfolio |
August 27th, 2008 |
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Limewire, a popular file sharing application that offers users access to music, movie and other downloads via the decentralized gnutella network developed by Justin Frankel, the late Gene Kan and others, has more than doubled the size of its music store catalog by adding around 1.2 million tracks from music [...]
Portfolio |
August 27th, 2008 |
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Sam Gustin says: The R.I.A.A. nailed Muxtape. Are they gonna take this lying down?Since the martyred music site was forced down by the R.I.A.A. last week, a new digital music offering has risen from its ashes.Like the proverbial phoenix, OpenTape.com has emerged as a bare bones way for people to [...]
Wired |
August 27th, 2008 |
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China has lifted its general block on Apple's iTunes store, now that authorities have apparently figured out how to block one specific album -- Songs for Tibet -- without cutting access to the rest of the store.[...]
Seeking Alpha |
August 26th, 2008 |
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The Apple (AAPL) rumor mill is back in action - and this time the bloggers are calling the date: Sept. 9. That’s the day the company is expected to announce a new look for the iPod Nano, a new version of iTunes, an OS X update and more. Apple, of [...]
Wired |
August 26th, 2008 |
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The Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America are well-known for their thousands of copyright infringement lawsuits. But they're also Hollywood's biggest lobbying organizations. The pair have descended upon Denver for the Democratic National Convention and are headed to the Republican's convention next week in [...]
Wired |
August 26th, 2008 |
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It's been a week since we started asking (and initially got the OK for) an interview with Justin Oullette, founder of the online mix sharing site, Muxtape, to find out about the site's still-cryptic RIAA-induced outage. We're hoping for the best, but just in case, here are five alternative services [...]
