columbia house. articles, videos, photos and opinions

Sort by Relevance | Date | Popularity

The Day Ahead: Expedia's independence pays, Musicmaker's swan song

Expedia first quarter as a public company shows the benefits of being independent Read more

1 February, 2000 by Larry Dignan

Search history gives insight into lives of AOL users

Analysis AOL's recent publication of users' search data gives a rare glimpse into the life stories of these individuals Read more

8 August, 2006 by Declan McCullagh

Pop-ups are here to stay

...time period were Providian, Cendant, Cassava Enterprises, Dell, Bonzi Software, Morgan Stanley, Columbia House and Advertising.com. For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal... Read more

5 September, 2002 by Troy Wolverton

Net ads making a comeback?

...advertisers largely propelled the growth, with established advertisers filling the top spots. Columbia House took the lead by increasing Net advertising 89 percent from January... Read more

14 May, 2002 by Gwendolyn Mariano

Online advertising starts to stabilise

Analysts aren't giving away much, but there does seem to be a consensus that companies who rely on online ad revenue are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel Read more

7 June, 2001 by Larry Dignan

Amazon subsidiary admits security breach

...string of security breaches at leading e-commerce sites. A breach at Columbia House's Web site left open some 3,700 customer records last... Read more

6 March, 2001 by Troy Wolverton

The Day Ahead: Amid slide, CDNow reprices its stock options

...than $35. Not bad for a guy who was stood up by Columbia House after the AOL Time Warner merger. And not bad for a... Read more

31 March, 2000 by Larry Dignan

The music may be over for CDNow

...a plan to acquire CDNow and merge it with the media giants' Columbia House music-marketing venture. Under the termination agreement, Sony and Time Warner... Read more

29 March, 2000 by ZDNet

The Day Ahead: Online music earnings nothing to dance about

...other real sticking point in the CDNow story is its merger with Columbia House, a joint venture between Sony and Time Warner. Officials said on... Read more

4 February, 2000 by Larry Dignan

Winners and losers after AOL Time Warner deal

America Online's acquisition of Time Warner made a big splash Monday. Now brace yourselves for the ripple effect. Here are the winners and losers Read more

11 January, 2000 by Larry Dignan

Music online: Big boys team up on delivery system

...and Sony Corp.'s Sony Music. Sony and Warner, which jointly own Columbia House record club, together control about 33% of the market. Sony and... Read more

6 May, 1999 by ZDNet

Get ZDNet UK's daily newsletter

Enter your email address to sign up

ZDNet UK Live

Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

9 hours ago by Jack Strain via Facebook on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
dede0202

Hello ALL USERS OF THE PIRATE BAY I WOULD PUT AN EXPLANATION ON PIRACY Story Idea ILLIGALE AND SHARING THOSE THAT NET Dissent NOT WELL BUT TO CA...

18 hours ago by dede0202 on The Pirate Bay infringes copyright, High Court decides
Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

18 hours ago by Sungwoo on Loose Ends - Upgrading the Aspire One 522
itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

1 day ago by itsajob on Ten IT jobs to save up for those rare lulls
Roberto_Store

Now On Sale, Unlocked iPhone 4S / Galaxy Note In Factory Box. Roberto-Techie(UK) ”Now on Sales” Smartphone, Android,Tablets,Gadget &...

1 day ago by Roberto_Store on Samsung Galaxy S III lined up for sale
Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

1 day ago by Paul Smyth via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

1 day ago by UnderINK on European e-identity plan to be unveiled this month
Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

2 days ago by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe on Software with everything
Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

2 days ago by Jason Burchell via Facebook on Music industry negotiating over 24-bit downloads
Philip Charles Cohen

Read about it and weep, John Donahoe ... In addition to Visa’s V.me, there is now MasterCard’s PayPass digital wallet soon to arrive; another...

2 days ago by Philip Charles Cohen via Facebook on PayPal takes phone-based payments to the high street
apexwm

Leslie Satenstein : Where have you ever seen Mozilla even mention this? Firefox is the most popular browser in the GNU/Linux OS, so I don't see...

2 days ago by apexwm on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
songmaster

SHleG: Do you remember building a clockwork scorpion kit (I'm pretty sure I have a photo of it somewhere) — I think it was called something like...

2 days ago by songmaster on Software with everything
Chris Wortman

Good I love Yahoo! Their search engine is getting better than Google as of late. I find more of what I want on the first page, and usually within...

2 days ago by Chris Wortman via Facebook on Linux Mint 13 ramps up for KDE release
PatrickG

openhgs has made the point for Windows 8 multiple monitors without realising it! With Windows 7 you have to switch the mouse and so your focus...

2 days ago by PatrickG on Windows 8 could speed multi-monitor uptake
Leslie Satenstein

Mozilla has threatened to stop supporting Linux. I guess that UBUNTU is going with another browser. I indicated that if Mozilla stops supporting...

2 days ago by Leslie Satenstein via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
Andy Bolstridge

Much as I abhor Microsoft's licensing practices, this is almost certainly down to purchasing IT equipment via 3rd party consultants - you get the...

2 days ago by Andy Bolstridge via Facebook on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
Jack Schofield

@openhgs Windows users have had multiple desktops since Linus started writing Linux. They just haven't shipped as standard because not enough...

3 days ago by Jack Schofield on Windows 8 could speed multi-monitor uptake
Jack Schofield

@Phil at Cloud4 What, Microsoft gets £1,200 per PC and £1,622 per server? Gosh, I'm amazed....

3 days ago by Jack Schofield on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
craigsc

You guys have no idea what is going on at Autonomy. Autonomy could have been a much more profitable organization. The sales operations at Autonomy...

3 days ago by craigsc on HP cuts 27,000 staff as Autonomy chief Lynch leaves
Moley

How does this impact on dual or multi booting? Seems to me to more or less prohibit this, from Windows 8 anyway. Will Grub 2 recognise Windows 8,...

3 days ago by Moley on Windows 8 start-up speed forces USB boot workaround