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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. Most industry commentators... [27 Oct 2009]
iPhones unshackled, IT wages revealed and outsourcing explained
News Despite Apple rejecting some iPhone apps, it's approved the potential risk to its own business that is music service Spotify. But how good are the UK's universities at turning out the skilled professionals that the tech... [06 Oct 2009]
Minority Report: Is Microsoft competing with imaginary Apple tablets?
Comment Operating systems, touchscreen music players, advertising, retail stores, you name it. After all, this is a rivalry stretching back decades, a fundamental dichotomy that underpins the industry and its... [01 Oct 2009]
Daniel Ek
AS Profile The UK-based company's name is a combination of spot and identify and the 26-year-old Ek has certainly done that with a niche in the music industry. Daniel Ek co-founded the Spotify on-demand... [29 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The turntable spins on
Comment The music industry has wasted millions on intellectual property battles and digital rights management, and it looks as though the movie industry is intent on doing the same. I think we... [24 Sep 2009]
Steve Jobs: Firmly back in the driving seat at Apple
News Appearing notably thin, he received a prolonged standing ovation from the audience, much of it composed of members of the media, but also a range of guests including app developers, entertainers, and music... [10 Sep 2009]
Apple's iPhone wins rights to sell readymade ringtones in iTunes
News Apple will announce the ringtones on 9 September, if it can get them ready in time to sell, music industry sources told silicon.com sister site CNET News. As for ringtones, they have been a boon to the... [03 Sep 2009]
Time for businesses to open up - or else
Comment Compare this with open content distribution services such as YouTube and streaming music sites like Last.fm and Spotify, which are working to develop viable commercial models that let people freely consume and share... [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]
Using Customer Insights to Drive Revenue and Loyalty: Business Intelligence for the Media and Entertainment Industry
White Paper Where once it could only tune into a few television or radio stations, visit the local cinema or music store, or open one of a relative handful of newspapers or magazines for entertainment, sports and news, today choices... [02 Sep 2009]
iPhone, Google battle - another element in the struggle for web power
News AT&T said flatly it had "no role in Apple's consideration of Google Voice", though it said it sometimes does get involved when Apple is considering applications such as Pandora's music streaming service that could stress... [27 Aug 2009]
Apple readying lightweight MacBook?
News However, Apple typically unveils new or redesigned products at media events, but apart from a music event on 9 September, Apple has no such events on the calendar for the rest of the year. Data provided by market... [26 Aug 2009]
Yahoo! wins Sony appeal in music streaming case
News In what is being seen as a defeat for the music industry, Yahoo! Music was not deemed "interactive" enough to require the company to negotiate with record companies for the rights to... [24 Aug 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 collaborating with... [27 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]
