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RSS sony musicSony phone deal gives Symbian boost
News Mobile phone handsets combining telephone, Internet, and multimedia applications such as music and video, will be available this time next year, Sony claimed. Symbian has been given a further boost with the announcement that Sony is to use its Epoc... [27 Apr 2000]
Broadcasting industry forms EU lobby group
News Simon Bazalgette, CEO of Music Choice - which is a joint venture between EMI, Sony and Warner - claims the European Music Service Providers Association will give the industry a much-needed voice at European regulatory level. [12 Apr 2000]
BMG to offer music for sale online
News Sony is expected to make a similar announcement next week. BMG Entertainment is launching a service to let consumers download its artists' music over the Web. The company hopes the initiative will accelerate the development of a legitimate... [07 Apr 2000]
Genie puts mobile users in touch with the stars
News It will be the new Sony Walkman, but with much wider possibilities. BT Cellnet subsidiary, Genie Internet, has announced a service that gives music fans access to their favourite movie and music stars via their mobile phone. [01 Mar 2000]
Thomson software to fight multimedia pirates
News Music companies Macrovision and Sony have already expressed an interest in using the technology. Thomson-CSF and French disk manufacturer MPO have partnered to develop technology to fight the pirate copying of CDs and DVDs. [21 Feb 2000]
EMI/Time Warner merger puts e-music on the map
News EMI has struggled in recent years, and been rumoured to be on the wishlist of rivals, including Bertelsmann's BMG Entertainment, Seagram's Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, as well as music industry outsiders such as Microsoft... [24 Jan 2000]
MP3.com faces massive copyright law suit
News The RIAA represents the rights of 90 per cent of all music produced in the US, with members including BMG, EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner Music. Online music site, MP3.com, is to be sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for... [24 Jan 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Novell's directory supremacy, CE's struggles, and the problem of Net taxation
Comment The collaboration between Sony and Palm can be seen as yet another networking move that is not Windows CE friendly. The latest move in this market is the announcement yesterday that Sony and Palm (i.e. [21 Nov 1999]
Sony unveils Internet Walkman
News Sony says the product will comply with specifications from the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) - the industry consortium looking for ways to protect copyrights of digital music. Users of the product will be able to download material using... [29 Sep 1999]
SDMI consortium agrees digital music format
News The big record labels - BMG, EMI, Sony Music, Universal and Warner Music Group - have opposed the illegal downloading of music in the controversial MP3 format via the Internet since its introduction. The Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI... [30 Jun 1999]
High-street shops get digital music delivery
News Sony Music Entertainment has inked a deal with Red Dot Net to digitally distribute all Sony's back catalogue. The major advantage for any retailer is it can effectively sell the entire Sony range without needing miles of shelf space. [10 Jun 1999]
Net music sales set to boom
News According to MTI, direct downloading of music from the Internet - which currently accounts for less than 8 per cent of the Web music trade - will become more and more popular and threatens to take music out of the control of major corporations... [26 May 1999]
IBM and RealNetworks team up to fight MP3
News IBM already has the support of BMG, EMI, Sony Music, Universal Music, and Warner Music. IBM and RealNetworks are set to work together on a project to deliver music online. RealNetworks will provide the front end for IBM's Electronic Music... [13 Apr 1999]
Sony and EMI join forces for online music
News Sony and EMI's music divisions are set to jointly develop commercial Web sites, according to a report on the Financial Times. The two firms have so far refused to comment, but Robin Duke-Woolley, principle consultant at Schema, claims the move is... [26 Mar 1999]
Music giants end months of indecision on online trading
News The decision by firms including EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner marks an end to month of indecision over how to handle Web sales. Major record labels in the US have given their support to a music distribution platform developed in secret by IBM. [26 Nov 1998]
