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RSS sony downloadsAnti-spyware group agrees detection guidelines
News The guidelines should also make it clearer when companies cross the line of what's acceptable and legal and what's not when it comes to downloads, as Sony BMG did recently with its "rootkit" programs,... [13 Jan 2006]
Microsoft fixes smorgasbord of IE flaws
News One is related to the way the browser displays the dialogue box for file downloads. The browser security update also tackles part of the fallout from Sony BMG Music Entertainment's rootkit debacle.... [14 Dec 2005]
Sony recalls millions of copy-protected CDs
News Sony later replaced that web-based uninstall tool with one that downloads a program with its own instructions, as opposed to one that accepts instructions from websites. Record label... [16 Nov 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Comic capers and unlikely successes
Comment There is no reason comic book downloads will not be popular outside Japan. Sony is rushing into the market for mobile manga comics. There is probably something in that, and he knows a lot more about the... [05 Sep 2005]
Radioactive: Ready or not, here comes mobile music
Comment Though mobile operators currently have the price and usability of music downloads all wrong, they can, to an extent, take their time getting it right. With people showing so little interest in buying CD singles, it was... [14 Apr 2005]
'Protecting the public from piracy too expensive'
News That fragmentation would mean users would be unable to transfer music or movie downloads from one mobile to another after an upgrade, for example. Patents used to create the standard are drawn from a small group of... [04 Apr 2005]
iTunes gets a Yahoo! rival
News MusicNet's technology allows companies to offer subscription services or per-song downloads, and is used by Virgin Digital Downloads, America Online and others. However, Apple's dominance has been... [08 Mar 2005]
Napster looking to enter movie downloads
News Nevertheless, analysts are predicting legal film downloads could be a winner. Since the advent of broadband film downloads have surged considerably - one in four people online have now downloaded a film,... [24 Jan 2005]
Firefox heads for five per cent share
News Mozilla, an open-source software foundation formed by Netscape, launched Firefox 1.0 in November, after recording more than eight million downloads of its test version. As downloads continued to surge,... [24 Jan 2005]
Glitch hits iTunes downloads
News The company has continued to dominate the category despite growing competition from rivals such as Sony, Napster and Wal-Mart. Some users of Apple's iTunes for Windows say a glitch is causing the program to crash... [21 Dec 2004]
Radioactive: We want our mobile TV
Comment And survey after survey shows that not TV but music downloads and gaming top peoples' wish lists of features in their next mobile device. In the US, Sprint PCS is making $2m a month on its two mobile TV services - Sprint... [01 Dec 2004]
Leader: Is Tesco off its trolley to compete with iTunes?
Leader When rival song seller Real slashed its prices, for instance, it found its downloads started going like the proverbial hot cakes. Other online music competitors include everyone from Virgin and Sony to... [08 Nov 2004]
Tesco aims for iTunes with song-shop launch
News The site itself, tescodownloads.com, gives a hint at its future direction, according to Higgins - with the generically-named Tesco offshoot aiming to move into offering music videos and eventually full-length feature film... [08 Nov 2004]
How do you sell more smart phones? Turn them into iPods
News Rene Schuster, global marketing director for business at Vodafone, said young people will drive smart phones to offer "music downloads and all sort of neat things". Miles Flint, president of Sony... [05 Oct 2004]
Turn your mobile into a TV: O2 and NTL join forces in Oxford
News While operators like 3 have already been offering video downloads for 3G customers - typically short clips such as football highlights - Dave Williams, mmO2's CTO said that TV over mobile would complement existing 3G... [13 Sep 2004]
