music download
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment It will be interesting to observe whether, in due course, illegal e-book file-sharing attracts the same levels of controversy and media attention as illegal music file-sharing. They are capable of storing thousands of... [27 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The turntable spins on
Comment Ten years ago a 19-year-old Shawn Fanning launched Napster and music file-sharing; and the property rights war has been raging ever since. The music industry has wasted millions on intellectual property... [24 Sep 2009]
Photos: Steve Jobs takes the stage as iPods, iTunes and iPhone revamped
Photo At its music-oriented press conference Wednesday morning in San Francisco, Apple played up iTunes 9, iPod price cuts, games for the Touch, a video camera for the Nano and much more. These show up in the App Store app, as... [10 Sep 2009]
Nokia's new mobiles take aim at Facebooking music lovers
News This service increases the cost of the device, but provides users with a free download music service. Nokia, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, on Wednesday announced new phones loaded with more... [03 Sep 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Apple iPhone
Cheat Sheet Sony Ericsson's music-playing Walkman phones debuted in 2005, for instance, while Nokia's flagship N95 - which launched a few months before the iPhone - included 3G, GPS, wi-fi, a five megapixel camera, multimedia... [02 Sep 2009]
Employee Web Use and Misuse: Companies, their employees and the Internet
White Paper Is it okay for employees to spend time on social networking sites, shopping online or downloading pirated music? Download this whitepaper to help make an informed decision about your own web monitoring... [14 Aug 2009]
Minority Report: Will Apple open up to 'iTunes killer' Spotify?
Comment Gloriously sexy online music service Spotify has submitted an iPhone app to Apple for entry into the iTunes Store. The free version of Spotify provides access to the entire library of music but listening... [29 Jul 2009]
Apple working on a musical Cocktail with record labels?
News Under the purported plan, people going to Apple's iTunes store to download music would also be able to get an interactive bundle that includes material such as liner notes, lyric sheets, and photos,... [27 Jul 2009]
Microsoft hopes MSN music-streaming service will sound sweeter this time
News Microsoft launched an MSN Music download business in 2004 but pulled the plug two years later and started promoting RealNetworks' Rhapsody as part of a settlement with that company. MSN has made several... [14 Jul 2009]
Seeking memorable mobile apps
Comment While Apple has undoubtedly successfully translated the 'buy a tune or video clip' model of iTunes into the mobile application domain, unfortunately for application developers the returns are also at a similar price point to... [02 Jul 2009]
Virgin file-sharers risking suspension
News The ISP announced on Monday that it would, before Christmas, launch an all-you-can-eat music download service for its users, based on a monthly subscription fee. In parallel, the two companies will be... [15 Jun 2009]
A new media world: Napster's 10-year anniversary
Comment Ten years after the launch of digital music upstart Napster, Gartner analyst Mike McGuire ponders the controversial program's legacy. In short, my feeling about Napster requires me to paraphrase TV critic Tim Goodman of... [03 Jun 2009]
Palm shows its hand with Pre features
News Among the Pre features, Palm showed a media-synching feature that transfers unprotected music directly from iTunes Rubinstein showed how the device can search Amazon's MP3 store and download songs... [29 May 2009]
Vodafone to dive into mobile app store pond
News The App Store lets iPhone users download thousands of small software programmes that personalise the way they play games, get directions and listen to music. Vodafone, the world's largest mobile operator... [12 May 2009]
Dance-Tunes B.V. Launches Online Store on Highly Scalable, Reliable Data and Application Infrastructure
White Paper Dance-Tunes wanted to create a chargeable online download platform for music to counter illegal downloads and prepare for the future increase in the number of users, in line with Dance-Tunes' global... [27 Feb 2009]