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Virgin Megastores Opens Music and Video Vault to Customers With New Digital Kiosk

whitepaper To maintain that reputation at its Virgin Megastores in the United States, Virgin wanted to replace CD listening posts with digital media preview kiosks capable of delivering far more than just music.

Tags: embedded systems

[11 May 2008]

Data Center Sustainability

whitepaper It's not only on the computers, but the mobile phones, televisions and portable music players. The internet is everywhere. Very few users of digital content consider how data arrives on these devices.

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

SQL Server Compact 3.5

whitepaper This is driven by market changes such as a growing mobile workforce and its need for productivity even when not "Connected" and an explosive growth of new devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), portable music players, and gaming...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Brits want ASBOs for rude mobile users

News Music blaring out of mobiles and conversations so loud that everyone in the train carriage is forced to listen are just two of the mobile habits that are getting on the UK's wick. A survey of more than 2,000 UK adults found the top five pet hates...

Tags: texting, in-flight, mobile

[09 May 2008]

Microsoft Online Services Customer Story: Live Earth

whitepaper Across cities, continents, cultures, and countries, music has a unique power to unite people. And that's exactly what it did on July 7, 2007 - or 7.7.07 - when millions of fans around the world harnessed the resonance of music to make a resounding...

Tags: streaming media

[04 May 2008]

Tech Futures: The talkification of the web

Comment The film and music industries have been turned upside down by the arrival of the internet. Over the past decade, as digital music, video and films have become the province of anyone with an ISP, whole industries have been transformed with each...

Tags: internet, comms, voice

[01 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 25.04.08

Round-Up Meanwhile, the relaxed lifestyle of Bristol, Devon and the South West makes for a more positive workforce thanks to the vast quantities of reasonably priced, quality cider and the trip-hop music scene.

Tags: open source, zx spectrum, apple, london

[25 Apr 2008]

Apple profits up thanks to Mac, iPhone and iPod

News The company blamed the slide in its gross margin on lower sales of its Leopard operating system, a price cut on low-end iPod shuffles, and higher sales at its iTunes online music and movies store, which runs at break-even or slightly profitable.

Tags: ipod, iphone, mac, apple

[24 Apr 2008]

Cool tech gets down with the kids

News In this respect, Jones said cyber crime can be a barometer of social dissatisfaction - pointing to illegal music downloads as an example of younger generations' mass dissatisfaction with restrictive digital distribution models.

Tags: ipod, apple, virtual worlds

[23 Apr 2008]

Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket

Comment The device has managed to invigorate the market with its core value proposition of mail, phone, music player and mobile internet but little else. The Mac, and more recently the iPod, have had an undeniable influence on both the hardware and...

Tags: smart phones, apple, android, iphone

[23 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'

Comment But like business models of a 1960s/1970s recorded music industry, they're totally out of fashion and not listening to the listeners. The latest in the debate over music downloaders and sharers also got a lots of comments, while women in IT - or...

Tags: file-sharers, home office, women

[17 Apr 2008]

Ofcom - high-fibre diet ordered for Broadband Britain

News The speed offered by fibre optic cable - up to 100Mb - is much faster than broadband speeds of existing copper networks, and is able to deal with multiple high-definition video streams and near-instant music downloads.

Tags: telco, broadband, fibre

[16 Apr 2008]

Tesco to launch iTunes challenger

News Tesco is launching an online music service next month with more than three million tracks available to download and more content to follow. No details of pricing are yet available but Tesco says it plans to offer "variable pricing" on albums and...

Tags: mp3, online, digital music, itunes

[15 Apr 2008]

HP OpenCall Communications Software: Software Part 5

whitepaper From voice & data to games, music & video, it is all about expanding the user experience with personalized, dynamic content & services. The attendee of this webcast will learn how HP OpenCall solutions hold the key.

Tags: voice - data integration

[14 Apr 2008]

Under the Yankee Group Microscope: NTT DoCoMo's Experience With Flash Lite

whitepaper The next mobile revolution will see wireless phones used as music players, cameras and payment instruments. The user interface must make each application seem natural. Flash Lite can play a crucial role in this transformation of mobile phones into...

Tags: japan, phones, flash, lite

[10 Apr 2008]

Musical retailer improves stock visibility

Case Study Pro audio music retailer Digital Village implemented a retail software management system to improve productivity and sales in 2003. Prior to that, the company was using Claris Filemaker, a simple database to manage stock.

Tags: great plains, sql, k3

[08 Apr 2008]

Google CIO to join digital music realm

News A spokeperson for EMI Music Group declined to comment. The move was surprising, given how different the music industry is from Google's world. The music industry has to figure out how to deal with technology that easily lets people download music...

Tags: emi, google, cio

[03 Apr 2008]

Optimizing Cellular Backhaul Networks With Optical Multiservice Platforms

whitepaper As mobile users increasingly adopt IP-based music, video, and data services, cellular bandwidth requirements are growing exponentially - especially in the cellular backhaul network. Mobile carriers are incorporating more packet-based services than...

Tags: ip technologies

[03 Apr 2008]

SAS UK boss talks SaaS, innovation and his first 90 days in the job...

Comment SliceThePie founder: Helping music fans grab a slice Ian Manocha took over as managing director of SAS in the UK three months ago and has been busy putting his stamp on the company. Manocha joined SAS to run the Manchester sales office in 1996...

Tags: saas, consolidation, uk, sas

[02 Apr 2008]

White Stuff settles on secure EPOS network

News Other potential uses include distributing music electronically, rather than on CDs through the post, or even piping it through from a central server to each store. Clothing retailer White Stuff is due to complete the rollout of a secure store...

Tags: pci, eft, white stuff

[02 Apr 2008]

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