compiled by Philippe Astor
10-15-04
MUSIC BUSINESS
Digital Musicworks International, Inc. Announces The World’s First Next-Generation Music Label
Top AOL Music Charts
Strait Ascends to Top of Albums Chart After Error
DIGITAL MUSIC
iTunes Music Store Downloads Top 150 Million Songs
Apple iPod grabs 82% US retail market share
Apple Under Scrutiny as Music Competition Rises
Microsoft snubs UK for Japan music launch
ANALYSIS: Japan’s Online Music-Delivery Business Heating Up
UK : Music firms win ‘pirates’ ruling
Australia : Consumer, privacy groups demand seat at Kazaa trial
Australia : Lawyers for Universal Music put the hard word on Sharman Networks
Induce Act Dead for This Year
Supreme Court Internet Privacy Decision : chat transcript with Verizon attorney Sarah Deutsch
The P2P Dilemma – A Problem Without Solution?
Napster Pre-Paid Cards and Media Room Edition
Listeners set the rules for how digital music needs to be sold
Starbucks Expanding Custom CD Service to 45 Stores
Adelphi University Offering Students RealNetworks’ Rhapsody Service at an Unbeatable Price: Free
RealNetworks Announces Agreements With D-Link, Pinnacle Systems
Loudeye Powers Digital Music Store for Portugal Telecom
Playstation Portable tunes into MP3s
Dell Displays New TVs, Music Players
MEDIA
Gates: Broadcast TV Model Faces Irrelevancy
There They Go Again: Microsoft’s Latest Foray Into Television
Review: Hi-Def TV may be PCs’ killer app
Entelligence: TV on a PC
Sony’s DVDirect – Transfer Home Movies Without a PC
UK viewers taking control of TV
Philips, IFILM in Home Entertainment Partnership
Digital home and mobile computing : HP to open research center in South Korea
Netflix sees Amazon entering DVD rentals
Car computer hobbyists hack XM Radio
Eminem Satellite Radio Channel Sets October Debut
Interep Pumps $57 Million In New Revenue To Radio In `04
HBO Execs Suspended in Inquiry
MOBILE
mMode Music Store: The Experiment Begins
AT&T Wireless Launches MobiTV
Analysis : Fat Pipes Encourage Downloading, Not Streaming
Symbian and Microsoft Compete For Smart Phones Leadership
Mobile Industry Prepares For 3G/UMTS In China
INTERNET
Google Unveils Desktop Search, Takes on Microsoft
Privacy Eroding, Bit by Bit and Byte
10-14-04
MUSIC BUSINESS
Justice Dept. wants new antipiracy powers
Rocking the music world
India : Music Industry Can Be Next Growth Engine
Music deserves better television than this, writes Sarah Crompton
DIGITAL MUSIC
DRM: Commission not interested in Civil Society’s position
Microsoft soon expanding MSN Music in Europe
Microsoft beginning music download service in Japan
The Orchard Announces New Distribution Deals With 11 Premier Indie Labels
D-Link, Napster Partner On Music Streaming
Apple Profit More Than Doubles
Sony retuning to pick up MP3s
Starbucks Launches the ”Hear Music Media Bar”
Music service Puretracks opens up shop in US
UCLA File Swappers in Quarantine
Can Ruckus Become a Campus Craze?
Rent, Don’t Rip
Coral Consortium, the world’s biggest DRM talking shop
Olympus to Launch Hard Disc Portable Music Player
MP3 mini market heats up
A Portable Little Cylinder Shares Your Digital Music
MEDIA
Glickman to Film Industry: Nurture New Technology
Optical networking: The next generation
Will Satellite, ‘Podcasting’ Bring a Renaissance to Radio Journalism?
Bill Gates: Live at Microsoft’s Digital Entertainment Anywhere Event
(audio)
Media Centers On Parade; Content Partners Announced
MOBILES
Mobile Phones Increase Tumor Risk, Study Says
INTERNET
Yahoo! names Kelkoo’s Pierre Chappaz as the new president of its European operations
Investors Flock to Web Networking Sites
10-13-04
MUSIC BUSINESS
Supreme Court Won’t Weigh Net Music Lawsuit Tactics
Universal Said to Consider Executive Post for Rap Star
Sony BMG Music Entertainment Appoints Managing Directors For Hungary, Czech Republic And Poland
Lisa Zbitnew Named President, Sony BMG Music Canada
Sony BMG : other nominations
Riddle of missing Mean Fiddler boss
HMV hires Warner’s Bennett for new digital music role
DIGITAL MUSIC
Yahoo Gets US Antitrust Nod for Musicmatch Deal
A Preview Version of AOL Music on Demand Now Available on Media Centers
Live365 to Provide Thousands of Radio Stations to Media Centers
Trans World Entertainment Launches F.Y.E. Download Zone with Musicnet
TradTunes.com is First Celtic Music Download Store
MP3 music service draws industry fire
Apple Fan Sites Buzz with Talk of Photo-Ready iPod
iPod Claims 82% HD-Based Retail Market Share; 42% All Players
Preview : Toshiba Gigabeat F 60GB
Virgin unveils portable music player
Making disk drives the star of the show
Fewer People Paying for Music Downloads – NPD
Rocking the music world
Mattel Introduces Juice Box Personal Media Player
Identity Rights Manager Boasts More Sophisticated Approach
MEDIA
US crackdown on film, music piracy
Orb Unveils New Service for Digital Media
News Corp to sell Sky stake to DirecTV
DirecTV to Add to Latin America
Fund Seeks Power to Nominate Disney Directors
DreamWorks Animation IPO Could Raise $725 Mln
Senate Tax Vote May Help Hollywood
UK : A new framework for Public Service Broadcasting
UK : BBC launches first trials of on-demand television programming
BBC : The lost treasures
Study: High Demand for Movies-on-Demand
Movielink at 99 Cents For Students
CinemaNow Premieres High-Definition Movie Downloads
Microsoft Renews Play for Digital Home
Microsoft Sets Aside $20 Billion For Media
A slow crawl to digital television
Podcasts: New Twist on Net Audio
Big Content Plays From Verizon And Comcast
Global Dawn For Digital Radio
Lions Gate tests distributing films via satellite
JVC Sides With Blu-ray Disc
Sony DVD burner skirts PCs
Intel Cooperates With Japanese PC, CE And Content Industries To Promote The Digital Home
The Copyright Industries Continues To Be A Driving Force In The U.S. Economy
New Fee For Internet-Capable PCs In Germany
MOBILES
South Korea: The Epicenter of Mobile Music Piracy
Sony StreamMan and Outsourcing Music
Problems might force Orange to delay 3G launch
Siemens backs new wireless technology
INTERNET
Yahoo Profit Triples on Google Stake Sale
The next big thing in the prepaid arena
Why Broadband’s Pipes Need Reaming
Ultrawideband Heralds Zippier Wireless Connections
Wi-Fi Successor Called High-Speed Hype, for Now
Where Opera Is Out-Browsing Explorer
UK : Online advertising poised to pass radio
10-11-04
MUSIC BUSINESS
Free CDs ‘killing music’
DVD sales help slow recorded music decline
CDs to come in three classes
South Korean Downloaders Push Music Stores to Brink
The Guardian profile: Vince Power
AIM For China 2004
China : Recording industry tunes up for compensation
Audio Fidelity And Paul Mitchell Hair Products To Bring Music Into Hair
Salons Across U.S.A.
DIGITAL MUSIC
Music industry presses for common standard for downloads
EXCLUSIVE: 60GB iPod to pack photo-viewing features
MSN Music Falls Short Of iTunes’ High Marks
Hollywood, RIAA appeals against Internet file sharing decision
Kazaa owner denied office-raid appeal
Weekly Comment: Illegal downloaders or music’s best customers?
Pop impresario Pete Waterman defends legal assault on web music piracy
Take your part in the NME Downloading debate
US : Senate Talks Fail on File-Sharing Software
If you want to see the future, it’s time to consult your peers
Profile : Yusuf Medhi, head of MSN
Napster Announces 2005 Supercross/Motocross Team Sponsorship
Heard it through the Web grapevine
JetGroove Sell Unlicensed MP3 Without Permission
South Africa Gets Own Music Download Facility
Podcasts: New Twist on Net Audio
Love DRM or my family starves: why Steve Ballmer doesn’t Get It
Gadgets of the week: Turning wax into MP3
What’s The Download.Com Announces Search For Young Adults To Serve On New “Interactive Advisory Board” Addressing Digital Music
MEDIA
Digital radio sales 13m ‘by 2008’
WIPO Assemblies Conclude
MTV Networks Chairman And CEO Judy McGrath Announces Key Appointments
RealNetworks Announces 13 New Versions Of Realplayer
Wireless media player launches in Europe
Piracy Bill’s Language Protects DVD Movie Filters
MOBILES
Japan to begin mobile satellite broadcasting
How do you sell more smart phones? Turn them into iPods
Mobile clash of cultures
Mobile payments: RIP credit cards?
INTERNET
AOL Readying Stand-Alone Browser
compiled by Philippe Astor