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Report confirms MP3 is here to stay
News However, the music industry's best efforts still fall short when it comes to preparing for the day when digital music distribution is commonplace. The stigma attached to MP3 should not prevent the labels taking advantage of what is the most...
[July 7, 1999, 13:33]
Xbox faces the music with new software
News The $40, or about £26, package, set to go on sale this autumn, will include PC and Xbox software that will allow owners to transfer digital music and photos from their computer to the console's hard drive.
[May 13, 2003, 7:55]
Flash memory heading for mobiles
News Eli Harari, head of flash memory product maker SanDisk, told attendees at an investor conference that so-called NAND flash memory is poised to go into products such as cellphones with camcorder capability, phones that double as digital music...
[August 3, 2004, 15:15]
Mezzmo
Downloads Mezzmo is home entertainment software that streams music, movies, TV shows and photos from your PC to your TV, home theater, games console and digital media appliances. Mezzmo supports all popular music, video and photo formats - including MP3, WMA...
[February 15, 2008, 15:02]
Microsoft and Apple's interoperability tussle
News Apple would not comment for this story.iPod owners will be able to connect their digital music devices through one of the Xbox 360's three USB 2 ports. Officially, the company says the new console can stream music from just about any MP3 player.
[November 4, 2005, 17:25]
BlackJack Deluxe
Downloads Features: Enhanced digital music for Palm OS 5 devices (Music requires Palm Zire 71, 72, Tungsten T, T2, T3,T5, C, E, Treo 600,650 or Sony TJ, TH or UX series); Enhanced digital sound effects for Palm OS 5 devices 3 types of play : Quick play...
[September 30, 2008, 9:22]
CES: Gates wants Windows XP in your living room
News Instead of the usual Windows desktop, Freestyle features a series of large buttons, visible from across a room, that in conjunction with a remote control can be used to launch a video, play a music file, access digital photos, watch and record TV...
[January 8, 2002, 9:14]
Headed to a highway near you - MP3 players
News The digital-audio phenomenon has yet to penetrate one place where people spend a lot of time listening to music: behind the wheel. Music can be downloaded to the hard drive and returned to the car. The hard drives will come in capacities of 5GB to...
[January 25, 2001, 9:07]
Apple hints at 'breakthrough' device
News Sources say it is some type of digital music device. Compaq has come out with its iPaq Music Center, and HP has announced its digital living room, with all sorts of bells and whistles combined in their hard drives and the ability to upload and...
[October 18, 2001, 9:24]
Selfish users may lead to death of peer-to-peer
News Citing a recent Gartner study, McNealy said sampling is what makes digital music distribution so appealing to users. Most digital music users understand that eventually they will have to pay for music downloads, McNealy said.
[August 22, 2000, 11:06]
Napster decision could have industry repercussions
News Although it may be difficult to track a direct correlation between the decline of Napster and PC or device sales, it is clear that digital music has energised the industry. When the topic of digital music comes up, nearly every analyst and PC...
[March 14, 2001, 10:11]
Music search tools target tastes
News While still very far from perfect -- and sure to face the continuing skepticism of listeners loath to believe that computers can perform the subjective task of recommending music -- the new tools could be an important part of driving demand for...
[December 12, 2003, 10:20]
DivX plots course to block pirates
News Fraunhofer is one of the companies behind the MP3 audio format, one of the most popular formats for creating and trading digital music files. Last year, university researchers cracked the code to four watermarks being considered for a secure...
[April 5, 2002, 10:49]
Apple bets big on synchronisation
News Apple is nearing the end of a long testing cycle for iSync, its software for synchronising information between Macs, Bluetooth-enabled cell phones, personal digital assistants or the company's iPod music player.
[December 19, 2002, 11:47]
French music store claims iPod 'anticompetitive'
News A number of media companies, most prominently RealNetworks, have called on Apple to open up its FairPlay digital rights technology so that other digital music services can securely transfer files onto Apple's iPod player.
[August 6, 2004, 9:05]
Firms rush to sell songs online
News Many, if not most, of the planned PC services are converging on Microsoft's Windows Media technology, both for encoding the music and wrapping songs in digital rights management protections. In a rush to market that's reminiscent of the dot-com...
[July 29, 2003, 10:33]
Commodore brand sold
News No stranger to the digital music business, Tulip this year announced several products under the Commodore name, including portable USB storage devices, low-end digital music players as well as a 20GB digital music player.
[December 31, 2004, 10:05]
EBay vetoes sale of iTunes download
News The move for now brings to an end a quirky effort to dramatise some of the less obvious effects of the music industry's shift from physical media sales to digital downloads -- in this case the still-unresolved question of whether Internet...
[September 5, 2003, 12:50]
iPods chopped by HP
News Under the terms of HP's deal with Apple, the computer maker cannot develop or market a rival digital music player to the iPod until August 2006. Camp said HP plans to continue reselling the music players through the end of September, when it...
[August 1, 2005, 9:40]
Snaps, crackles and pops aim to stop CD piracy
News The most high-profile effort, the cross-industry Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), has all but scrapped its plans to add digital "watermarks" to recorded music, after disagreements between labels, consumer device manufacturers and technology...
[July 19, 2001, 14:45]
