Tag Archives: Software

What rocked your tech world in 2005?

Best Buy Co. Inc. – the number one electronics retailer in the U.S. – is currently testing the sale of used video games in a few of its stores. With more than 870 stores in North America, Best Buy is trying to tap into the existing used video game market …

In the better-late-than-never category, so thunderstruck was I by my experience at the Future of Music Coalition’s ’05 Policy Summit last week in Washington, DC that I am just now getting caught up. In particular I had the great good fortune of moderating the session on “How to Podcast and …

Being a mega-busy media mogul perched in front of a computer at least 12 hours a day, not having the brainpower sufficient to concentrate on writing-editing-logistics-managing-marketing-and the like WHILE also listening to music, AND sitting on top of 25,000 or so CDs that just keep on trickling in day after …

America Online released a free, Internet-based e-mail service today – the first time the company has gone outside the “garden wall” of their fee-based subscription model for substantial services. Competing with free emails services like Google’s Gmail (2.3 gigabytes of storage), Yahoo (1 gigabyte for free), and Microsoft Corp.’s Hotmail …

Oh . dear . lord . almighty – it’s April 15th and for the first time in my entire life I am forced to do my own taxes (our taxes to be exact.) For reasons that I would rather not go into, this is the first year we have had …

You’re young. You’re passionate. You know technology (and stuff). Microsoft Corp. has launched its second annual You Can Make a Difference scholarship program this week, which challenges secondary school students around the world to design technology-based projects to benefit charitable organizations. Previously available only to students from the United States …

On December 10, 2004 the Supreme Court agreed to hear the entertainment industry’s case against two file-sharing services, Grokster Ltd. and StreamCast Networks Inc (Morpheus), through which millions of people swap music and movies online, a decision that could decide the future of digital copyright rules and related technology for …

compiled by Philippe Astor 10-18-04 MUSIC BUSINESS Sony BMG Sales Enterprise Taps Clyne, Morelli MIDEM 2005 : More Music Business Than Ever! Promo Only Music Delivery Software Launches New Escrow Service For Songs And Lyrics India : Counterfeit MP3 CDs flood markets DIGITAL MUSIC The End User: New key, old …

With almost 19,000 posts in just over two years, I shudder to think how many dead links we have festering in our archives – imagine trying to fix them all. This sounds like a blogger’s dream come true: Peridot, developed by UK intern students at IBM, scans company weblinks and …