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'Hyperconnected' world grabs mobile over wallet

News More than one-third of workers would choose their mobile phone over their wallet, keys, laptop or digital music player if they had to leave the house for 24 hours and could take only one item, a new survey has found.

Tags: laptop, mobile

[14 May 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]

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]

Google CIO to join digital music realm

News Haddad says: "It's a digital world and if they [music companies] can't pull the heavyweights in that have been successful in other industries they're never going to get it right for their industry. A spokeperson for EMI Music Group declined to...

Tags: emi, google, cio

[03 Apr 2008]

UK record industry in illegal file-sharing crackdown

News But Benn acknowledged there is a dramatic shift among major labels away from digital rights management (DRM) that restricts how people can listen to their music towards alternatives such as unprotected music bearing a digital watermark.

Tags: p2p, drm, bpi

[27 Mar 2008]

EC lays down standard for mobile TV

News Most countries have seen trials of mobile TV, such as sports, news and music videos although Italy is one of the rare EU states with a commercial-type service running, Biggam said. The Commission said setting the Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld...

Tags: mobile tv, eu, ec, association

[18 Mar 2008]

Linux-based laptop latest OLPC rival?

News According to Elonex, the Linux-based laptop will boast a three-hour battery life, wi-fi, a flash-based hard drive, a "hard-wearing case" and a "wireless music server", and will weigh less than one kilogram.

Tags: olpc, linux, laptop, education

[19 Feb 2008]

Music piracy fight - ISPs must do more

News The music industry is calling for governments and internet services providers (ISPs) to do more in the fight against digital music piracy. And although digital music accounts for 15 per cent of all music sales and rose by around 40 per cent during...

Tags: music, government, piracy, isps

[25 Jan 2008]

Bill Gates sings at CES for one last time

News In the more near-term realm, Microsoft said Samsung will start offering an adapter that lets its flatscreen TVs act as Media Center extenders, which lets the TVs show videos, pictures, and music stored on a Vista PC in another room.

Tags: vista, olympics, ford, gates

[07 Jan 2008]

Microsoft Zune gets a makeover

News Microsoft has unveiled the second generation of Zune digital music players and will offer consumers one million unprotected songs on its online music store. Not only is the company one of the major providers of digital rights management software...

Tags: mp3 player, drm, microsoft, ipod

[03 Oct 2007]

Nokia maps $8.1bn Navteq buy

News Already selling more mobile phones around the globe than any other handset maker, Nokia has been aiming to add software and services such as music, games and navigation to its business. Nokia has said it plans to buy digital-map supplier Navteq for...

Tags: mapping, location-based services, nokia

[02 Oct 2007]

Apple slapped with copyright suit - report

News Eminem's music publishers have not given Apple permission to offer the artist's music for download, according to the report, although Eminem's music is available through Apple's iTunes Store. Apple pays a portion of the revenue it collects from...

Tags: itunes, downloads, copyright, apple

[01 Aug 2007]

HMV adopts lean digital business strategy

News Music, video and games retailer HMV Group has set out its web 2.0 stall as part of an effort to offset flagging physical store sales, and which could also lead to redundancies in the IT department. It will be piloting two 'stores of the future' in...

Tags: waterstones, hmv, social networking, online

[28 Jun 2007]

YouTube copyright battle hots up

News The Federation Francaise de Tennis and Ligue de Football Professionnel, as well as New York-based Cherry Lane Music Publishing, have joined a class-action lawsuit that accuses YouTube and parent company Google of copyright violations, according to...

Tags: copyright, youtube

[06 Jun 2007]

Data breach fears over iTunes songs

News Apple is in trouble with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for embedding customer information within iTunes music. But some observers have speculated the Mac maker is adding watermarks to music files.

Tags: eff, apple, itunes, data

[04 Jun 2007]

Mobile telly to hit the big time in five years?

News But it found a significant number of occasional consumers of mobile content - such as music and video clips - exist. Chris Khouri, associate media and broadcasting analyst at Datamonitor, told silicon.com the European mobile telly landscape is set...

Tags: mobile tv

[31 May 2007]

Apple to lecture iPod lovers

News In other Mac-related news, Apple has also launched its DRM-free iTunes Plus service so customers can download tracks from music label EMI's track listings without any restrictions on the type of music player or number of computers purchased songs...

Tags: apple

[31 May 2007]

Terabyte storage heading for consumer market

News Other enterprise storage vendors are eyeing up the lucrative consumer mass-market, which is being fuelled by the vast growth in personal technology and user-generated digital data, music, images and information.

Tags: terabyte, storage, emc

[22 May 2007]

Amazon to open DRM-less digital song store

News Amazon.com plans to launch a digital music store later this year, featuring music downloads without copyright restrictions. In making the announcement, Amazon also noted it has teamed up with EMI Music to offer songs from its digital catalogue.

Tags: drm, music, amazon

[16 May 2007]

Downloads sound the end of cassettes

News Digital music, however, continues to grow. Analyst Berg Insight predicts music sold on digital formats will outsell physical by 2011. According to the electronics retailer, the growth of music downloads has sounded the death knell for the cassette.

Tags: currys, cassette, tape

[08 May 2007]

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