Calsbay Media Promotions has launched a new video sharing platform for musicians: Calsbay.com. The site is designed to give musicians, as well as comedians and spoken word artists an outlet to market...

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...

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...

A recent controversy over Microsoft Windows Media Center has highlighted the perils of DRM (Digital Rights Management). DRM uses secured formats that can cause incompatibilities with other hardware...

I admire the folks at Project Playlist. They've developed a service that carefully navigates copyright infringement, at least how the recording industry plays that game today. I'll ignore...

Shared Media Licensing's (SML) Weedshare, an early digital music service, has suspended operations. Weedshare was smoked by Microsoft, whose latest version of Windows Media Player was...

Jimmy Ruska's Awesome Video Blog at jimmyr.com proves there is plenty of unauthorized music sitting on the web, courtesy of Google and your browser. No need to fire up your P2P software. The web...

With Apple and the major recording labels integrating your name and address into digital music files, it's only a matter of time before the encryption is broken or they or others start tracking...

The New York Times ask this question in Where's the Other Half of Your Music File? While data storage for drives in computer and portable music players has zoomed over the past decade, the...

We covered the top PC music software earlier. The top six in order are Windows Media Player (WMP), RealPlayer, iTunes, RecordNow, MusicMatch, and Winamp. I put most of thousands of songs in folders...

Open wireless Internet like WiFi represents a huge threat to RIAA. It's virtually impossible to track and identify WiFi users. Wireless users typically share the same IP address. The Internet...

Research from BigChampange and PC Pitstop shows that Limewire has captured a huge lead as the top P2P software now that former giants like eDonkey and Kazaa have either been put out of business or...

Well, not exactly. The full phone number is 1-800-GOOG-411. No longer content with ruling the Internet, Google is bringing its well-known search to the offline world and a phone near you. Google...

Personal social networks like Friendster were not designed for entertainment. MySpace broke open the market with great success by integrating artists and their music. Musician's Playground 3D at...

A Technology Review article on the top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2007 covers the latest P2P research. Cornell University computer scientist Paul Francis has developed the Chunkyspread P2P network....

OnTour offers a concert widget that makes it easy to see where your favorite band is playing or who is coming to town, and to buy tickets. OnTour even retrieves concert listings and highlights the...

The Distributed Computing Industry published a white paper, "Digital Watermarking Technologies - Applications in P2P Networks." The paper outlines how digital watermarks can be used in P2P...

eWeek covers that the top 25 Killer Apps of All Time. The lists started with Electric Pencil in 1976 and closes with Firefox in 2004. Browsers take top billing with 3 entries - Netscape Navigator, MS...

Two inexpensive (under $200) turntables are now available that play vinyl records, come with preamplifiers to raise the sound level, plug into a PC or Mac, and create digital and MP3 files. A New...

Susan Crawford nicely ties together a few different pieces on asymmetric download and upload rates for residential DSL subscribers. P2P constitutes up to 70% of all ISP traffic. It's inherently...

In Gadgets as Tyrants, Xeni Jordan reviews CES (the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas) and doesn't like what she sees. The multiplicity of tech formats has resulted in "new products...