Jazz label joins the DRM-free revolution (Guardian Unlimited)
Record label Universal Music Classics & Jazz is making its entire catalogue available online without copy protection as part of an experiment to gauge fans' demand for MP3 tracks. By Katie Allen ....more...Learn about Evangelical Christians in the U.S.: Lifestyle, Demographic and Marketing Trends (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LYON, France----Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the American consumer trends is available in its catalogue....more... iPhone review, part III: Listening to music (Guardian Unlimited)
Apple's iPod dominates the music market, but how does its new iPhone fare as a media player? Bobbie Johnson investigates in the third part of our extended review. ...more... 350,000 Subscribers and 3 Million Tracks: eMusic Hits Critical Mass (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
As the holidays approach, eMusic hits a new level of critical mass: today, the world's largest retailer of independent music -- and the world's second-largest digital music service after iTunes -- announces that it has surpassed 350,000 paid subscribers and that its catalogue totals more than three million tracks. Since establishing the current subscription model in 2003, eMusic has sold more ......more... Creatively Zen (Channel NewsAsia)
When it comes to the world of portable music, there is little doubt that the iPod holds the lead. But there are also a good many strong contenders, like Creative for example who, when given half the chance, give the iPod team a good run for the money....more... Tuning into a new model (Chicago Sun-Times)
Like many dot-com entrepreneurs in the late '90s, Peer Munck maybe had too much too fast. In 1999, Munck raised nearly 30 million bucks to fund his first company, Ravenswood-based TheSauce.com, only to see its fortunes spoil less than two years later during the market shakedown....more... Science@NASA ... to go (NASA)
A new "podcast" puts audio recordings of NASA science news articles into your pocket MP3 player....more... Invasion of the pod people (The Malay Mail--The Paper that Cares)
There are a lot of new ways to entertain yourself out there on the market these days, and it seems like the Internet is at the heart of all of them....more... The E-Book Revolution (E-Commerce Times)
In just a few short years, MP3 downloads and the iPod changed the face of the music industry. CDs are going the way of the dodo, and high-street music stores fear for their future. Now there's a new revolution on the horizon; this time in the realm of books. For nearly 600 years -- since the invention of the printing press -- the printed book has reigned supreme as the "technology" of choice for ......more... |