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RSS EMIApple working on a musical Cocktail with record labels?
News The project, codenamed Cocktail, has Apple collaborating with EMI, Sony Music, Warner Music and Universal Music Group with an eye on a September launch date, the newspaper said on its FT.com site early on Monday,... [27 Jul 2009]
Martin Taylor
CIO Profile During his 30-plus years in IT, Taylor has held CIO posts at textiles giant Courtaulds, Cable & Wireless and EMI Music. Career highlights include leading EMI through the year 2000 and the advent of... [03 Jun 2009]
Three-tier iTunes pricing to save digital music?
News Major label owners like Vivendi's Universal Music Group, Sony Music, Warner Music Group and EMI Music say they can make money with more flexible prices and possibly help make music retail a profitable enterprise again. [07 Apr 2009]
Polymer Optical Fiber for EtherNet/IP Networks
White Paper In some applications were EMI is high, fiber cabling can provide a higher degree of noise immunity. As EtherNet/IP moves into the machine area, environmental conditions become a concern. In the past, the total cost of... [02 Apr 2009]
Irish ISP to ban illegal music downloaders
News The record companies - EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner - had wanted Eircom to install software from a US firm to detect the "fingerprint" of copyrighted music files being sent on its network. Willie Kavanagh, who is also... [02 Feb 2009]
Former Tesco CIO joins HMRC
News Previously, Cobain has held positions including IT director with EMI Thorn and Rumbelows. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has snapped up former Tesco CIO Colin Cobain as a non-executive director. Cobain, who stepped down... [06 Jan 2009]
A Smart Network Sensor System for Distributed, Synchronous Data Acquisition
White Paper Typical test and monitoring systems are based on stand-alone instrumentation and require point-to-point analog wiring, which usually results in cumbersome cabling and connectors, bulky instrumentation, susceptibility to... [14 Oct 2008]
YouTube adds click-to-buy links on videos
News For now, the service is only available to US users and the only music company specifically mentioned in the announcement was EMI. Google, which owns the video-sharing site YouTube, is adding "click to buy" links to... [09 Oct 2008]
BBC readies music downloads service
News So far, major label support for the BBC Worldwide project comes only from EMI, but MusicWeek reports that talks are underway with other major labels. BBC Worldwide, Auntie's commercial arm, is developing a music download... [05 Sep 2008]
RFID could disrupt medical devices, say researchers
News The study by six Dutch scientists has found electromagnetic interference (EMI) generated by the track and trace chips has the potential to cause disruption to medical devices - which could be a potential hazard to patients. [25 Jun 2008]
Martin Taylor
CIO Profile In 1996 he became group CIO at EMI, where he took the music company through the Y2K project and led early forays into the internet and digital downloads. Martin Taylor took on the group CIO role at clearing-house... [11 Jun 2008]
Legal Eye: What's the score for the music biz?
Comment For a band renowned for shunning the limelight, and firmly under contract to EMI, their announcements highlight the uncertainty surrounding the future of media companies. EMI recently lost Sir Paul... [22 May 2008]
Google CIO to join digital music realm
News Google CIO Douglas Merrill is leaving Google to become president of EMI's digital unit, according to sources. A spokeperson for EMI Music Group declined to comment. A separate source familiar with the... [03 Apr 2008]
UK record industry in illegal file-sharing crackdown
News Multi-national label EMI sells tracks DRM-free through Apple's iTunes catalogue while Warner, Sony/BMG and Universal offer unprotected songs on Amazon's US site. More people than ever are able to illegally swap their... [27 Mar 2008]
Minority Report: 12 months that changed Apple
Comment A month or so later, in a move that Jobs described as the "next big step forward in the digital music revolution", EMI and Apple made a joint announcement that the label would start selling DRM-free tracks on the iTunes... [21 Dec 2007]
