downloads in comment and analysis
Music downloads: Dancing to a different tune
Comment Call us luddites if you want, but in an era when there's still considerable doubt whether Napster really has dented record sales, you have to say that the long-term success of music downloads is less than assured. [10 Oct 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Controlling electronic messaging, mobile games downloads and SPSS
Comment External email is becoming polluted with spam and viruses and an increasing number of organisations consider internal email to be a time waster. We need to consider all the options for electronic communication and make intelligent choices based on... [11 Oct 2003]
Leader: Still lots to learn from online music pirates
Leader The number of legal digital music downloads has risen 1,000 per cent and the online music business is booming, according to a recent report from industry group IFPI. While no one can deny it's good for the industry to see music fans switching to... [20 Jan 2005]
Leader: The iTunes fight-back starts here
Leader With the news last week that music downloads will be getting their very own pop chart came the sign that music downloading has finally been recognised as a vital and legitimate force in music - there's no debate about that. [05 Jul 2004]
Radioactive: Ready or not, here comes mobile music
Comment They've seen CD sales slip so far they need new outlets and the threat of illegal music downloads has encouraged them to realise that the monopoly on the medium (CD, tape or record) has come to an end. [14 Apr 2005]
Leader: Act now to stop next wave of virus attacks
Leader Illegal downloads of a mobile game are coming laced with a nasty piece of Trojan code that once installed on the handset will send premium rate SMS messages - to the considerable cost of the unsuspecting end user. [10 Aug 2004]
The Ovum View: DRM - protecting content and revenues
Comment Evolution to the next phase, that of rich media incorporating music and video downloads, depends on a number of technological issues being resolved. Ringtone downloads continue to grow and Ovum estimates that revenues from this application grew to... [10 Jul 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Trojan horses, legacy systems and IBM's new clients
Comment When you log on to a website to order goods or make payments through your bank account, a small program downloads to your PC and checks for any Trojans. Trojans can be put on a PC by viruses or attached to dubious downloads, such as those you might... [17 May 2004]
Radioactive: Crazy Frog's legacy - it's boomtime for ringtones
Comment A ringtone is a public demonstration of the phone owner's musical taste, while digital downloads are a more private affair. Ringtone downloads are driven by peer pressure and wall-to-wall late night advertising. [16 Jan 2006]
Leader: File-sharing suits out of tune with music market
Leader But it's certainly no coincidence that the as the amount of legal downloads has boomed, the number of illegal downloads has fallen significantly. File-sharing is illegal. Musicians know that, record labels know that and file-sharers are more than... [07 Oct 2004]
Minority Report: Apple in your living room
Comment As is often the case with new Apple services, the movie downloads are limited initially to users in the US only. Meanwhile its Unbox video service has come in for some early criticism about the usability of downloads and issues with DRM technology... [09 Oct 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.09.04
Round-Up Apple has so far refused to open its wildly successful iTunes store - over 125,000,000 downloads and counting - to customers not using iPods. The paper alleges that during a 'friendly game' of golf organised by the Japanese firm in Hawaii, Apple... [10 Sep 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Little sympathy for the music industry
Comment And the surveys that show large numbers of people are downloading music have rarely asked a further critical question - are the downloads pirate copies or are they downloads of the very large amount of material that is now offered on the internet... [25 Jan 2005]
Radioactive: We want our mobile TV
Comment And survey after survey shows that not TV but music downloads and gaming top peoples' wish lists of features in their next mobile device. In the US, Sprint PCS is making $2m a month on its two mobile TV services - Sprint TV (downloads) and MobiTV... [01 Dec 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Media wars
Comment It starts with time-shifted programme feeds, plus movie and music downloads, but then moves on to new diversions such as social networking, online games and virtual worlds. But as far as I can see most of the old broadcasters seem to be going in... [31 Aug 2007]
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