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Canadian record industry faces $6bn copyright fine
Blog Since the late 80s, the Canadian recording industry has decided not to pay musicians and other rights holders for tracks used in compilations. There are now some 300,000 tracks on those lists, and the rights holders have taken the record companies...
[December 7, 2009, 14:13]
Spotify: let the music begin
Blog OK, at the current count the number is a shade over 90,000 tracks. Classical music fans will enjoy the fact that Spotify cut a deal with Naxos earlier this year to put more than 100,000 of its tracks onto the service.
[June 17, 2009, 14:26]
Piracy down, streaming up, internet 'broken'
Blog More fans are regularly sharing burned CDs and bluetoothing tracks to each other than file-sharing tracks. Illegal filesharing in the UK has fallen dramatically, according to media and technology researchers at Music Ally.
[July 13, 2009, 11:26]
Of Qtrax and broken dreams
Blog Qtrax does indeed purport to be a free legal music downloading service, with 30 million high quality tracks from all the majors. The client filters out bad and unlicensed tracks, bungs on some DRM, adds adverts and the stuff's yours.
[January 28, 2008, 7:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The news that Virgin Mobile not only tracks the movements of its subscribers via the mobile phone network but also keeps those records indefinitely has worried a lot of people. Monday 29/10/2001 I'm a Virgin subscriber, and it worries me -- but...
[November 2, 2001, 15:45]
Extreme OpenStreetMap
Blog Contributors to the OpenStreetMap project use GPS receivers to log their travels along highways, byways and any tracks they can find. However, one contributor from Japan decided to take things one step further.
[April 9, 2009, 14:10]
Shaggy elephant story
Blog A Korean scientist's commendable but misguided attempt to stem the tide of species extinction by cloning the distinctly deceased woolly mammoth has been frozen in its tracks, report our friends at The Reg.
[October 25, 2006, 16:37]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You can browse freely, pick tracks or albums, pay by credit card, and download your booty as very well encoded, un-DRM'd MP3s. Tracks cost 99p and albums cost £6.99, which is very reasonable -- considering that these days, I buy an album, slap it...
[January 16, 2004, 16:15]
Virgin considering filesharer suspensions
Blog The tracks will all be DRM-free. Virgin Media could start suspending persistent filesharers on a temporary basis, using information provided to it by the Universal record company. The ISP announced on Monday that it would, before Christmas, launch...
[June 15, 2009, 13:22]
Google Chrome browser market share after Day 1 = 2.77%
Blog My thanks to SEO expert Nikki Pilkington for sharing with me (over Twitter, look her up) some stats Clicky has released of web traffic over the 45,00 unique websites it tracks since Google Chrome was released in beta at 7:00pm BST last night.
[September 3, 2008, 15:36]
Correction of the week (so far)
Blog Like this, which greatly brightened up my day, from our sister publication News.com's story about Apple embedding user information in DRM-free music tracks: Every now and again, we hacks have to change a detail in a story - a necessary evil because...
[June 4, 2007, 14:49]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog When you have 8,000-odd tracks on shuffle, there's a lot to remember. Thursday 20/7/2006 I don't know how they do it. Apple sold eight million iPods last quarter, into a market I was sure would be showing signs of saturation already.
[July 21, 2006, 19:15]
Off topic: nerdy rap
Blog On their site, Bellicose Studio, the duo also have tracks about the Internet, noting the difficulty of evading banner ads and other Internet irritations - and about the McDonalds Corporation. It's not a tech corporate anthem, or even very good, but...
[May 6, 2008, 20:03]
Rupert Goodwins' diary
Blog Today, they broadcast it -- seemingly on every bulletin -- with me pointing to screenfuls of ripped Enimen tracks and saying "It's naughty, but it's not going away no matter what they do. Monday Yesterday, the BBC sent a nice lady with good hair...
[February 19, 2001, 8:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It tracks head movements and relays them to the pointer on screen -- blinking your right or left eye twice will trigger the appropriate click. Thursday 16/9/2004 The searchlight of IT innovation ceaselessly seeks out new areas for development.
[September 17, 2004, 17:30]
Facebook's statistical uncertainty
Blog Facebook tracks active monthly users, rather than registered user or unique visitors. A lesson in picking and choosing statistics here: in the middle of last week, Nielsen stats showed Facebook usage was down 5 percent in the UK from December to...
[February 25, 2008, 8:43]
Qt's Oktober Developer Days: first impressions
Blog With the promise of a comparatively no nonsense two days ahead (keynotes and presentations last only half a day and then it's into break outs, meetings and other tracks) I approached this event with great interest.
[October 14, 2008, 12:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I poke around some of the usual suspects: servers are clogged, the software is sluggish and the few tracks I try to find are nowhere to be seen. Wednesday In a scene from a thousand Japanese anime death scenes, the monster robot is near to death.
[May 11, 2001, 16:00]
O2: £200-per-gigabyte data charge a 'deterrent'
Blog GB per month is roughly equivalent to a few hours of surfing per week, downloading three music tracks a week, watching two hours of video a week (YouTube/ iPlayer) downloading one film a month and spending a few hours a week on Skype," James...
[July 29, 2009, 15:59]
Show blog: IBM Rational Software Developer Conference 2008
Blog It’s bigger this year though: 3500 developers, 300 sessions across 14 tracks and more Jazz-related product announcements than you can easily digest in a single serving. My guesses for what would constitute the bulk of the show news this week at IBM...
[June 2, 2008, 23:46]
