Music
Can Neil Young help Sun and Sony reinvent music media?
By: Stan Beer
I've been a Neil Young fan since "After The Goldrush" (yes I'm that old) so seeing the fuss being made about him at Sun's JavaOne conference where he publicly threw his support behind Java and Blu-ray technologies naturally perked my interest. The question is can the likes of Young help the developers of Java and Blu-ray change the way music is packaged and sold?
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By: Stan Beer
I've been a Neil Young fan since "After The Goldrush" (yes I'm that old) so seeing the fuss being made about him at Sun's JavaOne conference where he publicly threw his support behind Java and Blu-ray technologies naturally perked my interest. The question is can the likes of Young help the developers of Java and Blu-ray change the way music is packaged and sold?
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Here’s my new Business Model: Assume my Customer is a Thief
By: David Heath
How many companies survive using a long-term strategy that assumes their customers will steal their product? Only one group I know of seems to have turned this into their primary business model. But can they actually make money from it?
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By: David Heath
How many companies survive using a long-term strategy that assumes their customers will steal their product? Only one group I know of seems to have turned this into their primary business model. But can they actually make money from it?
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Can Samsung succeed with mp3 S2 Pebble and the S3 Slim?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
One of the world’s most successful consumer electronics companies, Samsung, is having another go at taking the iPod’s crown, with the Shuffle-esque S2 Pebble mp3 player and the nano-beating S3 Slim digital media player. Do they have any chance?
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
One of the world’s most successful consumer electronics companies, Samsung, is having another go at taking the iPod’s crown, with the Shuffle-esque S2 Pebble mp3 player and the nano-beating S3 Slim digital media player. Do they have any chance?
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1 Billion Seagate hard drives, the next will take 5 years
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Since 1979, when Seagate was called Shugart and the first hard drive stored a mere 5 megabytes, Seagate has shipped 1 billion hard drives and says it’s the first company to do so. 116,000 Terabytes are shipped each day – more than 1TB per second!
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Since 1979, when Seagate was called Shugart and the first hard drive stored a mere 5 megabytes, Seagate has shipped 1 billion hard drives and says it’s the first company to do so. 116,000 Terabytes are shipped each day – more than 1TB per second!
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Nokia’s music store opens in Oz: can they turn it up to 11?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Aiming to impress, Nokia’s new mobile and PC Music Store has finally opened its virtual doors, challenge the iTunes behemoth with three of the four major labels, many smaller ones, some exclusives, and an Aussie rock legend in the opening set.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Aiming to impress, Nokia’s new mobile and PC Music Store has finally opened its virtual doors, challenge the iTunes behemoth with three of the four major labels, many smaller ones, some exclusives, and an Aussie rock legend in the opening set.
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1 big problem with iPhone reviewing journalist
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Information Week’s Alexander Wolfe has done the dumbest thing ever: he bought an iPhone just a few weeks before the much-rumoured 3G iPhone model will supposedly hit the streets, and shares his 'five big problems'. Why did he bother?
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Information Week’s Alexander Wolfe has done the dumbest thing ever: he bought an iPhone just a few weeks before the much-rumoured 3G iPhone model will supposedly hit the streets, and shares his 'five big problems'. Why did he bother?
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Can music turn Nokia into Rokia?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Nokia’s entry into the music business is one that further pushes Nokia into direct competition with the very telecommunications companies it does business with worldwide. But seeing how poorly telco music services have fared against iTunes, traditional CD sales and piracy in general, can Nokia take music and make it rock around the clock?
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Nokia’s entry into the music business is one that further pushes Nokia into direct competition with the very telecommunications companies it does business with worldwide. But seeing how poorly telco music services have fared against iTunes, traditional CD sales and piracy in general, can Nokia take music and make it rock around the clock?
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The rise and rise of mobile data usage
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
A new study by m.Net corporation and the University of Adelaide shows that mobile data services (MDS) on mobile phones – purchasing, communications, information and entertainment – are finally reaching “critical mass”.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
A new study by m.Net corporation and the University of Adelaide shows that mobile data services (MDS) on mobile phones – purchasing, communications, information and entertainment – are finally reaching “critical mass”.
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Nokia’s Australian music store to hit all the right notes?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Nokia’s music store – the mobile giant’s answer to iTunes – is set to open its ‘virtual doors’ to Australians on April 22, with millions of tracks available to download, buy and also stream. Three of the four major labels are there, along with a host of others, with Warner yet to agree. Should Apple be worried?
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Nokia’s music store – the mobile giant’s answer to iTunes – is set to open its ‘virtual doors’ to Australians on April 22, with millions of tracks available to download, buy and also stream. Three of the four major labels are there, along with a host of others, with Warner yet to agree. Should Apple be worried?
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Racetrack memory promises major storage expansion for devices
By: Stephen Withers
New non-volatile memory technologies pop up from time to time, but they don't always make a lasting impression. Remember bubble memory? What about FRAM? Now IBM reckons its 'racetrack' memory could deliver the performance and reliability of flash memory with the low cost and high capacity of hard drives.
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By: Stephen Withers
New non-volatile memory technologies pop up from time to time, but they don't always make a lasting impression. Remember bubble memory? What about FRAM? Now IBM reckons its 'racetrack' memory could deliver the performance and reliability of flash memory with the low cost and high capacity of hard drives.
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Will Apple delight - or disappoint - with the 3G iPhone?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
A right ripper rainbow of 3G iPhone rumours is relentlessly raging across the radiant Internet, perpetuated by rapscallion rumour-mongers bent on raising expectation to raucous new heights. If it’s all true, it’s quite radical, but if not, it could well be outrageous.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
A right ripper rainbow of 3G iPhone rumours is relentlessly raging across the radiant Internet, perpetuated by rapscallion rumour-mongers bent on raising expectation to raucous new heights. If it’s all true, it’s quite radical, but if not, it could well be outrageous.
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Apple to delight – or disappoint – with the 3G iPhone?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
A right ripper rainbow of 3G iPhone rumours is relentlessly raging across the radiant Internet, perpetuated by rapscallion rumour-mongers bent on raising expectation to raucous new heights. If it’s all true, it’s quite radical, but if not, it could well be outrageous.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
A right ripper rainbow of 3G iPhone rumours is relentlessly raging across the radiant Internet, perpetuated by rapscallion rumour-mongers bent on raising expectation to raucous new heights. If it’s all true, it’s quite radical, but if not, it could well be outrageous.
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iTunes tops music retailer chart
By: Stephen Withers
After running second behind Wal-Mart for seven months, Apple's iTunes Store has made it to the top of the US music retailer rankings.
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By: Stephen Withers
After running second behind Wal-Mart for seven months, Apple's iTunes Store has made it to the top of the US music retailer rankings.
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Scott de Martinville records sound earlier than Edison
By: William Atkins
Previously regarded as the first person to make an audio recording, American inventor Thomas Edison lost this distinction when a recording was found that had been created in 1860 by Parisian inventor Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.
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By: William Atkins
Previously regarded as the first person to make an audio recording, American inventor Thomas Edison lost this distinction when a recording was found that had been created in 1860 by Parisian inventor Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.
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Beware of Geeks Bearing Grifts!
By: David Heath
During a retrospective discussion of his 1973 album ‘Berlin,’ Lou Reed was drawn to dump heavily on modern music delivery systems – the iPod in particular, although the others were clearly guilty by association.
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By: David Heath
During a retrospective discussion of his 1973 album ‘Berlin,’ Lou Reed was drawn to dump heavily on modern music delivery systems – the iPod in particular, although the others were clearly guilty by association.
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Apple to offer iPod/iPhone subscription music at last?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Conventional wisdom states people want to own their music and not rent it, hence the success of iTunes without a subscription option – but this could all be about to change.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Conventional wisdom states people want to own their music and not rent it, hence the success of iTunes without a subscription option – but this could all be about to change.
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Rockers die younger than most people
By: William Atkins
A new British study has found that rock and pop stars should be aware of the fate of Elvis, Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Tupac Shakur, and many others. They found that music stars suffer almost double the mortality of the general populations of the United States and the United Kingdom.
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By: William Atkins
A new British study has found that rock and pop stars should be aware of the fate of Elvis, Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Tupac Shakur, and many others. They found that music stars suffer almost double the mortality of the general populations of the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Sansa Fuze or Sansa Snooze?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
SanDisk is lighting the fuse that it hopes will see sales of its new mp3/video player, the Sansa Fuze, go off like a rocket. But even with the usual set of additional features not available on any iPod, is the Fuze the media player to use?
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
SanDisk is lighting the fuse that it hopes will see sales of its new mp3/video player, the Sansa Fuze, go off like a rocket. But even with the usual set of additional features not available on any iPod, is the Fuze the media player to use?
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