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Comment As a data-centric devices, smart phones have to have fast connectivity, such as 3G or even HSPA, otherwise email downloads and browsing take too long. A typical high-end product is Sony's flagship VAIO TZ150N weighing just over 1kg with an 11-inch... [04 Jun 2008]
UK record industry in illegal file-sharing crackdown
News Illegal music downloads are being fuelled by file-sharing applications that allow people to share tunes online, the UK record industry has warned. Multi-national label EMI sells tracks DRM-free through Apple's iTunes catalogue while Warner, Sony... [27 Mar 2008]
Vodafone offers unlimited music downloads
News Using Omnifone's MusicStation platform, users can choose from a catalogue of more than one million songs from major music labels - such as EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group and the Warner Music Group - and independent labels. [10 Sep 2007]
Downloads sound the end of cassettes
News According to the electronics retailer, the growth of music downloads has sounded the death knell for the cassette. The Thatcher years saw the biggest boom in cassette buying as portable tape players, led by Sony's Walkman, allowed music fans to... [08 May 2007]
Sony BMG does mobile downloads deal in China
News Sony BMG Music Entertainment has struck a deal with content aggregator Global Music International to distribute the company's music videos, full track songs and ringtones to mobile subscribers in China. [05 Apr 2007]
Apple to sell DRM-free music through iTunes
News EMI is the first record label to embrace the unencumbered downloads but it's unlikely to be the last, as Jobs revealed the iPod maker is in talks with other majors. While declining to give further details on who is likely to be the next seller of... [02 Apr 2007]
Floppy disks to disappear from PC World
News The increasing use of digital downloads and photography means many files are now too large for a floppy disk to hold and with plenty of other storage devices - USB keys, rewritable CDs, memory cards - with significantly more storage capacity, PC... [30 Jan 2007]
James Bond beaten by pirates
News The trade in illegal downloads and pirate DVDs has been boosted significantly by the release of the latest eagerly awaited Bond flick Casino Royale. Already those downloads will be spreading as well as being burned to DVD for sale across the country. [22 Nov 2006]
Apple uncloaks iTunes movie downloads
News As for the movies, notably, Apple launched with just Disney's studios, while rival Amazon.com announced last week its Unbox service will include films from 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal... [13 Sep 2006]
AOL moves into movie downloads
News The company said on Thursday it has cut deals with several movie studios - Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film, Universal Studios and Warner Bros Entertainment - to make full-length movie downloads and related content available... [25 Aug 2006]
Hollywood ready for DVD burning
News The reason for this is that Hollywood studios feared downloads would be easily pirated. Tom McInerney, founder and CEO of Guba, a video-sharing site that recently negotiated deals with Sony Pictures and Warner Bros Entertainment to sell... [11 Aug 2006]
Minority Report: Microsoft goes for Apple's jugular - the iPod
Comment Microsoft's announcement two weeks ago that it will be taking on Apple in the music downloads and MP3 player market was no great surprise - the rumours had been doing the rounds for months - but it represents Apple's most serious threat yet to... [04 Aug 2006]
World Cup kicks off $300m mobile TV bonanza
News TV clip downloads have been a staple of mobile companies for some time but several are already banking on broadcast as the way forward - O2, for example, is trialling a service with Nokia; Virgin Mobile is buying telly in wholesale from BT Movio... [07 Jun 2006]
Sony DRM settlement passes final legal hurdle
News Those customers can file a claim and receive certain benefits, such as a non-protected replacement CD, free downloads of music from that CD and additional cash payments. It yanked the affected discs off the shelves, suspended production of CDs... [23 May 2006]
French road test cashless city
News Among them is an underground car park; the town hall; a bus stop which can transmit timetable information; a cinema poster which downloads video trailers to users' mobiles; a local supermarket, where people can pay for their groceries with a... [20 Apr 2006]
