music downloads
Apple's iPhone wins rights to sell readymade ringtones in iTunes
News For that reason, ringtones have offered music labels and retailers better profit margins than full song downloads, which typically sell for between 79 cents and $1.29. Part of the reason for the drop... [03 Sep 2009]
Nokia's new mobiles take aim at Facebooking music lovers
News Recently it has been trying to diversify its business by offering its phone users online services, such as music downloads, games, and maps. Nokia, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, on... [03 Sep 2009]
Intelligent Optimization: Advancing Optimization in 3G Networks to Enhance Service Quality, Network Efficiency, and Business Performance Through User-Centric Data Analysis
White Paper Managing network complexity, accommodating greater numbers of subscribers, improving coverage to support data services (e.g.email, video, and music downloads), keeping up to speed with fast-changing... [15 Aug 2009]
Minority Report: Will Apple open up to 'iTunes killer' Spotify?
Comment The £9.99 premium looks reasonable despite the fact that I rarely spend that much on CDs or iTunes or Amazon downloads in a month. Gloriously sexy online music service Spotify has submitted an iPhone app... [29 Jul 2009]
Apple working on a musical Cocktail with record labels?
News Apple and the major record labels are teaming up to create bundles of interactive features to accompany music downloads, according to the Financial Times. The project, codenamed Cocktail, has Apple... [27 Jul 2009]
A new media world: Napster's 10-year anniversary
Comment Their new offering which offers consumers a month of free streaming if they buy a certain number of DRM-free MP3 downloads is probably the closest thing to a real challenge to iTunes that the market's seen in quite awhile. [03 Jun 2009]
Martin Taylor
CIO Profile Career highlights include leading EMI through the year 2000 and the advent of digital downloads, and from 2003-2006 restructuring Cable & Wireless' IT into two cost-effective, independent divisions. During his 30-plus... [03 Jun 2009]
Digital Media Resolves Oracle I/O Bottlenecks, Accelerates Music Downloads
White Paper Their system enables customers at a major mass market retailer to offer individual song downloads from their internet retail website. Digital Media develops and operates real-time delivery of multi-media content for... [18 Mar 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]
Digital leads music sales growth
News Those numbers square with recent reports on music downloads. For the third quarter, for instance, legal music downloads from sites such as iTunes and AmazonMP3 were up... [02 Jan 2009]
Apple patents, touchscreens, virtual worlds and Cern
Photo The Nokia 5800 Xpress Music comes with a guitar pick for use as a stylus - a nod to the fact the device also packs Nokia's Comes With Music unlimited song downloads service.... [04 Nov 2008]
Jeff Bezos
AS Profile Key to Amazon is the ever-expanding range of goods - from books and toys to music downloads and storage space - and the ease with which customers can navigate the site. Jeff Bezos, a perennial Agenda... [07 Oct 2008]
Is Nokia losing its enterprise mojo?
Comment The company in question is Nokia and the message it is apparently trying to get across is that it still loves business users - even if last week, at a painfully trendy club in Camden, the Finnish giant launched its first touchscreen... [06 Oct 2008]
Microsoft turns to Europe to fight the Google might
News The tickets enter users into the running for prizes such as free music downloads, air miles and video games. Microsoft will set up a Search Technology Centre designed to help its Live Search gain on... [06 Oct 2008]
Photos: Five of the best touchscreen mobiles
Photo The 5800 will also be one of the first devices to have Nokia's Comes With Music service so users will get free unlimited music downloads too. That said, Jobs and co did arguably reinvent... [03 Oct 2008]