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Ex-MTV Exec Named as Myspace Music Chief
Former MTV executive Courtney Holt has been named president of MySpace Music. Holt previously served as executive vice president of digital music for MTV Networks Music and the Logo Group, where he worked to increase consumer interest in the companies' online content. MySpace Music, which combines audio streaming with download functionality powered by Amazon, made its ...
France Mandates Nationwide Broadband for All
BRUSSELS - France will shortly call on telecoms operators to offer broadband services across all its territory for a maximum of 35 euros ($45.15) a month, a government minister said on Thursday. This would make France the first country in the European Union to effectively mandate the supply of broadband services. It signals a retreat by ...
Beatles on iTunes Talks Stall
LONDON (Reuters) - Talks to put The Beatles' catalog on Apple's iTunes online music store have stalled, former Fab Four member Paul McCartney told the BBC. The Beatles is one of the few big acts left whose music is not available on iTunes, but the settlement of a trademark dispute between Apple and The Beatles' company ...
Facebook Adds Full-Length TV Shows
Do you long for Facebook when you tear yourself away to watch a little television? Not to worry, the social networking site announced Monday that it is integrating full-length TV episodes into the site. “Full-length television is coming to Facebook, via a new generation of applications. Entire shows such as Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, and The Simpsons ...
Readers Overwhelm Europe's New Digital Library
BRUSSELS - Europe's heritage went digital Thursday when the European Union launched an online library putting famous works such as Dante's “Divine Comedy" and Beethoven's 9th Symphony just a mouse click away. Europeana (www.europeana.eu) gives multilingual access to two million digitized books and other items of cultural and historical significance held in over 1,000 institutions in ...
McCartney, Guns 'N' Roses Debut on Myspace
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and Guns N' Roses released their biggest hits on vinyl records and compact discs, but on Thursday, their new albums will debut online on MySpace. Users of MySpace, the world's largest social network on the Internet, will be able to listen for free to “Electric Arguments," the new album ...
Sonic Buys Cinemanow in Movie Burning Deal
Sonic Solutions said Wednesday that it had agreed to buy the assets of streaming movie provider CinemaNow. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The agreement combines CinemaNow's online movie business with Sonic's Qflix team, the technology that allowed users to download and burn CinemaNow movies as part of a November 2007 deal. The combination of ...
MySpace Believes in Japanese Music's Appeal
TOKYO - Banking on the global appeal of Japanese pop and video games, social networking site MySpace said it would more than double the number of artists on its Japanese pages to get more clicks internationally. The growth of new sign-ups and page views is slowing in Japan for rival networking services such as mixi Inc, ...
Comcast Expands 50-Mbit Service to Ore., Wash.
Starting next month, Comcast will expand its revamped “wideband" service, which offers speeds up to 50 Mbits/s, to Oregon and southwest Washington state. The cable provider started rolling out wideband in Minneapolis-St. Paul earlier this year and expanded to Boston, southern New Hampshire, and areas of Philadelphia and New Jersey in October. Wideband, also known as ...
The Worst Tech Problem? 'The Internet's Down'
Most of us have been plagued with a blue screen of death, a laptop that refuses to connect to a home wireless network, or a cell phone that just doesn't feel like making calls. About 48 percent of technology users have encountered such problems with their devices in the last year, according to a Sunday report ...
