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Round-Up In other non-travel news - illegal music downloads are being fuelled by file-sharing applications that allow people to share tunes online. Planes, trains and automobiles - the title of an amusing comedy flick starring Steve Martin is also a neat...
[28 Mar 2008]
Round-Up iPhone and iPod Touch fans are in for a third-party app bonanza after Apple announced more than 100,000 downloads of the Software Development Kit (SDK) in record time. It's difficult to know what to make of AOL these days.
[14 Mar 2008]
Comment Countless more sensitive files must be lost every day on USB drives when someone downloads accounts records to work from home but mislays the flash drive en route or emails it to the wrong address. Putting a ring of steel around corporate data is...
[10 Mar 2008]
Round-Up In other news, the government has dipped its oar into the debate about controlling illegal downloads. In a deafening cacophony of ringtones that could be heard from outer space (and underwater), handset vendors, mobile operators, developers and...
[15 Feb 2008]
AS Profile In May Amazon announced plans to launch an online music store featuring downloads without copyright restrictions. Bezos has risen up the rankings once again by keeping Amazon at the forefront of online retailing and also by guiding the company...
[12 Oct 2007]
Comment It starts with time-shifted programme feeds, plus movie and music downloads, but then moves on to new diversions such as social networking, online games and virtual worlds. But as far as I can see most of the old broadcasters seem to be going in...
[31 Aug 2007]
Comment It seems ISPs are keen to advertise all the things you can do when you sign up such as unlimited downloads, stream high quality videos etc but when you do they moan about it. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week?
[16 Aug 2007]
Leader The specific issue seems to be that iPlayer is a peer-to-peer system so that it uploads and downloads data at the same time, making it potentially bandwidth-heavy. Claims by ISPs that the BBC should fund the extra bandwidth needed by users that...
[16 Aug 2007]
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. What they say about him: "A legend among CIOs who specialises in turning around chaos.
[06 Jun 2007]
Comment While this number pales in comparison with the estimated 32 billion viewers of live broadcast coverage, the number of clip downloads increased by a huge factor between 2002 and 2006. InFront Sports reported more than 125 million downloads from the...
[04 Jun 2007]
Comment On the menu are media-rich offerings such as video on demand, music downloads, hosted applications and collaboration tools. The era of converged telecoms services is bringing big changes to the operators.
[02 Jan 2007]
Comment As is often the case with new Apple services, the movie downloads are limited initially to users in the US only. Meanwhile its Unbox video service has come in for some early criticism about the usability of downloads and issues with DRM technology...
[09 Oct 2006]
AS Profile This year the justification for Jobs' perennial presence is all about his foray into movie downloads. Why? Thinking different' about tech Steve Jobs has been a regular fixture in the Agenda Setters top 10 for many years and, though down three spots...
[25 Sep 2006]
AS Profile Under his stewardship, the broadcaster got involved with P2P movie downloads and mobile TV but it's the purchase of ISP Easynet that really turned heads. Why? Transforming Sky into a telecoms player James Murdoch is back on the Agenda Setters list...
[25 Sep 2006]
Leader But a recent analyst report found that mobile music will be a third of all downloads by 2011. Nokia announced this week it will spend $60m on buying Loudeye, the digital music company. So what's with Nokia - the hardware, mobile phones and base...
[10 Aug 2006]
Comment Microsoft's announcement two weeks ago that it will be taking on Apple in the music downloads and MP3 player market was no great surprise - the rumours had been doing the rounds for months - but it represents Apple's most serious threat yet to...
[04 Aug 2006]
Round-Up Get the songs on iTunes, start a viral marketing campaign on the internet and get Gary McKinnon to number one - a few thousand downloads alone will see him hit the charts. Imagine the Round-Up's surprise when during a moment of abject boredom this...
[30 Jun 2006]
Comment You launched the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) scheme in April which gives users access to more tools if they sign up to the service and register their copy of Windows but blocks some downloads to customers who don't.
[22 May 2006]
Comment Its Hotmail web email service is blocking 3.4 billion spam messages each day and has had two billion downloads of its malicious software removal tool in the last year, which tells us something about the overall size of the malicious software problem.
[26 Apr 2006]
Comment A ringtone is a public demonstration of the phone owner's musical taste, while digital downloads are a more private affair. Ringtone downloads are driven by peer pressure and wall-to-wall late night advertising.
[16 Jan 2006]
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