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The middle child of audio technology, neither as hip as vinyl or as modern as the MP3, the cassette lives on in a massive online shrine called the C-90 Project. Odds are, if you’ve ever seen a blank cassette, it’s stored in here or soon will be. We saw its colorful compact novelties back [...]
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
London - Apple (NASD: AAPL) is said to be developing a version of its iPhone with a slide-out keyboard to please corporate customers used to the BlackBerry device, The Register reported, citing senior executives at some mobile operators who had seen actual prototypes. The sources told The Register that any iPhone model with a slide-out keyboard would definitely not hit the market this year. read more...
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
London - CBS-owned (NYSE: CBS) social music discovery service Last.fm announced on Wednesday that it has partnered with Radiohead to offer the band's "In Rainbows" album for free streaming from its site, supported by advertising. The rights were licensed through the "one stop" digital licensing platform that Radiohead and publisher Warner/Chappell Music created at the end of last year. The band previously...
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Some of you in the DMW community might recognize Matt Mason from Digital Music Forum East in February. He is the author of the controversial book " The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture Reinvented Capitalism ". Lately, been working on turning the book into a TV show with Jesse Alexander, the Executive Producer of Heroes and Lost (see YouTube clip above). In line with his reasoning in the book, he's...
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
London - Unsatisfied with the sound quality of MP3 and other current digital audio formats, veteran rocker Neil Young has been talking with record companies on "licensing an alternative digital platform that he had been working on -- something, he claimed, of far higher quality that could provide an alternative to the download world and perhaps even a new business model for music," the Financial Times...
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
London - Italian police have shut down popular music file-sharing forum Downrevolution.net and arrested four alleged operators of the site, which counted 30,000 registered users, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a record label trade group. read more
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Washington - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that one of the operators of BurnLounge, a digital music distribution service the agency had determined was actually a pyramid scheme, has settled charges and agreed to give up $20,000 in ill-gotten gains. read more
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
New York - Digital advertising and entertainment network New Motion, Inc. (NASD: NWMO) , which does business as Atrinsic, announced on Wednesday that it has acquired the assets of Ringtone.com, a mobile entertainment portal, for $6.25 million in cash. read more
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
I'm the first to admit that the whole Guitar Hero thing took me off guard. Play music on a plastic toy guitar, I mean come on! But then I want to Guitar Hero night at my local waterhole in trendy Silver Lake, Hyperion Tavern (Thursdays for those of you that care, see picture to the right). It was so much fun to watch all the hipsters go at it. Now in its third incarnation, Activision's (NASD: ATVI)...
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
New York - Viacom's (NYSE: VIA) MTV Games and Harmonix studio on Tuesday announced that it will add a dozen songs from The Who to the tracks available for download for its "Rock Band" game via the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Store. The tracks -- which include three from The Who's "Live at Leeds" album, the first live tracks to be featured in the game -- will sell for $1.99 each or $19.99...
Fideocam - The Blog (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
I maybe honking my/our own horn here a bit, but it is a fact that Finland has a quite large number of companies working in video technology compared to the size of the country. Why has this happened? At least you can’t explain it with drinking water. Businesses in this industry have not been clumped [...]
Cnet (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
The Samsung BD-P1500 lacks some features and doesn't perform as well as the PlayStation 3, but its relatively low price makes it a solid option for those few people on a budget who still demand a standalone Blu-ray player.
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
This is called Chronotopic Anamorphosis, a new video technology. It gets better the longer you watch: Chronotopic Anamorphosis from Marginalia Project on Vimeo.
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
New York - Pop culture-inspired fashion retail store chain Hot Topic plans next month to launch its own digital music store, ShockHound, which will sell music from at least three of the four major labels in MP3 format, The New York Times reported on Monday. "For us, music merchandise is where the profit is," Hot Topic president Jerry Cook told The Times. "The reason we carry CDs in the stores is that...
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Washington - The U.S. Copyright Office has announced that it will introduce its new online copyright registration system on Tuesday. In addition to added convenience, the service will offer features including a lower filing fee of $35 for a basic claim; faster processing time; earlier effective date of registration; and online status tracking. read more
