Apple Beats Targets But Profits Fall
News The company sold 5 million songs in the June quarter and has sold 6.5 million tracks to date, though Anderson would not comment on how much Apple makes from each song. Buoyed by its strongest sales in almost three years, Apple Computer on Wednesday...
[July 17, 2003, 10:51]
Record Labels Targeted In Napster Suit
News The file-swapping company struck a deal earlier this year to carry MusicNet songs in its own forthcoming subscription service--but the agreement carried an exclusivity provision that barred Napster from immediately signing a similar deal with...
[October 11, 2001, 12:01]
What Sony Ericsson's Up To: Part I
Blog Launching in Sweden this year on a single device, with 1000 best-selling songs preloaded! From global artists (the presentation showed Jordin Sparks) to "your best local artist" (here the presentation showed Alice In Chains' Dirt album, so this bit...
[September 25, 2008, 0:22]
Madonna Site Hacked In File-trading Controversy
News The singer has put files that appear to be versions of her new songs onto peer-to-peer networks that actually contain recordings of her saying, "What the fuck do you think you're doing? It also contained what appeared to be links to the album's songs.
[April 23, 2003, 8:07]
Legal Napster Opens For Business
News As announced earlier, the free software provides access to a huge library of songs that nonsubscribers can download for 99 cents (64 pence) apiece, as well as to a $9.99-a-month service that allows subscribers unlimited listening.
[October 30, 2003, 8:00]
A Year Ago: Net Music Will Change
News On Tuesday, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), whose members sell more than 90 percent of the recorded music in the US, along with the five biggest recording companies, unveiled an initiative to create a secure format that will...
[December 16, 1999, 6:01]
A Year Ago: Consumers To Get Secure Downloadable Music
News MP3's major drawback -- for the established music industry, at least -- is that it only compresses music and has no security to copy-protect songs. In fact, at present, the majority of MP3 music on the Internet is pirated copies of songs.
[November 4, 1999, 6:08]
Windows Longhorn: More Details Emerge review
Reviews For example, you could create stacks that show all songs longer than one minute, display photos taken in the past month, or sort all contacts (Longhorn includes a My Contacts folder) by email address.
[November 11, 2003, 7:40]
A Year Ago: Sting To Flog Compaq
News Many advertisers have mined music catalogues and used classic songs to sell computers, cars and more. For the most part those songs already had made their way onto the charts, and off, before being used to tug on consumers' purse strings.
[August 9, 2000, 7:01]
