Walmart has made the decision to end its music downloads service as it found it was unable to compete with the likes of iTunes and Amazon. The online Walmart music downloads store is closing as of Aug…
Akamai's latest peer-to-peer (P2P) technology will help media customers to stream live on-demand videos to the end users for better marketing. Akamai has been experimenting with P2P since 2007 wit…
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 on…
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…
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 a…
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 th…
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 incompatible…
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 yo…
