Live Nation has toys. The world's largest concert promoter last year unveiled a comprehensive web database. This year it's hopped on the Web 2.0 bandwagon to ensure its place as the premier...
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Filed in archive DRM
, Retail
by Marc on August 30, 2007
MediaNet, formerly named MusicNet, will offer more than one million songs without DRM. MediaNet joins iTunes and other retail music sites that have started selling open MP3 music files. MediaNet also...
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In Producers howl over sound cut out by MP3 compression, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer writes about anguished record producers. MP3 files lose 90% of data stores in the Recording studio. The mass...
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Filed in archive Apple
, Phones
by Marc on August 29, 2007
A few efforts have been publicized by developers and hackers that open the iPhone, including iPhoneSimFree and 17 year old George Hotz. The methods allow iPhones to send and receive phone calls over...
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Filed in archive Companies
by Marc on August 28, 2007
The Netgear Digital Entertainer HD won the 'Kickass' product award by Maximum PC and will be featured in an upcoming issue. The Digital Entertainer HD is a souped-up Tivo DVR. It's an...
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Filed in archive Companies
, Finance
by Marc on August 27, 2007
Boston-based SonicBids raised $4.5 million from the Edison Venture Fund. SonicBids offers a specialized service that packages web-based artist submissions. Sonicbids was used in the Starbucks Music...
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Limewire, the current leading P2P developer, is developing an online music store. Paid music files will be available via links in their P2P software and later included in P2P results. Music will be...
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yahoo music's latest promotion at the new Yahoo Lyricsmakers web site is a lyrics contest with promotional partner McDonald's and artist Ne-Yo. You write the lyrics, site visitors vote on it,...
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Filed in archive Companies
, Finance
by Marc on August 20, 2007
VIRTUAL SERVICE DOPPELGANGER ADDS $11 MILLION FOR KIDS Virtual-world builder Doppelganger raised $11 million from ComVentures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Trident Capital, Draper Richards, KPG Ventures...
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Filed in archive Fun
by Marc on August 17, 2007
The New York Times has an amusing article Memo to the Dept. of Magical Copyright Enforcement. Stopping copyright infringement is difficult. And it's often on the fringe. Acquiring illegitimate...
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.... but the company already has a similar service set up at MP3sparks. The Russian government closed the music download site AllofMP3 to mollify the U.S. government and the World Trade Organization...
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The iPhone sells for $599 and is quite profitable. The actual materials are $265 for a gross profit margin of 55%. Now that doesn't include licensing and internal shipping costs, which could add...
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Universal Music Group jumped past rival EMI and juggernaut Apple to sell digital music without DRM (Digital Rights Management) to consumers. The files will be in open MP3 format that can be used on...
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Rolling Stone published an in-depth feature on The Record Industry's Decline. Now that a new generation of executives is driving the record companies, they can admit what everyone else has known...
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The "first sale" doctrine is simple. You buy it. You own it. You can do whatever you like with it. In the digital world that's not so obvious. Record companies, software developers, and...
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Amnesty International is running a music campaign called Instant Karma to raise money to support relief programs for the genocide in Darfur. Instant Karma recycles John Lennon music, which is...
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Filed in archive Artists
, Companies
by Marc on August 13, 2007
The AT&T Blue Room program with concert promoter Live Nation features Internet streaming of live shows. It also features only the parts of the performances they approve. It was first publicized...
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Filed in archive Internet
, Software
by Marc on August 10, 2007
Music widgets have now moved into the mainstream with many powerful features that you can add to jazz up your web site in a snap. CNET's article Eight (and a half) free Web music players focuses...
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IFPI, the international version of RIAA, released "Ten Inconvenient Truths About File Swapping". It's bizarre propaganda that conveniently confuses physical piracy with digital...
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If the music biz thinks its declining business will get easier, it's dead wrong. To the contrary, it's a harbinger for the rest of the digital entertainment sector. That's the conclusion...
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Ticketmaster has a new deal. Buy a ticket for a show before Labor Day and get a free song on iTunes. That's right - pay $30 more than you used to for a concert ticket and ticketing fees and......
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Filed in archive Artists
, Marketing
by Marc on August 08, 2007
Pop star Prince shocked the major labels with a new marketing plan - free music. He gave away almost 3 million CDs of his latest album, Planet Earth, in the UK. They were distributed with the Mail...
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