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The Digital Natives: Conclusions (Part Five)
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor What's The Difference? In The Personalized Music Experience, the iPod was described as, “A personalized, maximized, and fully controlled experience that could be taken with you wherever you go and be plugged into docking stations that created a home like listening venue where you ...
Obama's New Commerce Pick Has Tech Cred
Third time's the charm? President Obama nominated former Washington Governor Gary Locke as his pick for Commerce secretary Wednesday, a choice that drew support from the high-tech industry. “Gary will be a trusted voice in my cabinet, a tireless advocate for our economic competitiveness, and an influential ambassador for American industry who will help us do ...
Ticketmaster: AEG May Cancel if Merger Succeeds
Ticketmaster's chief executive sought Thursday to allay antitrust fears over the ticket seller's planned merger with concert promoter Live Nation by revealing that a major venue operator has threatened to cancel its contract if the merger goes through. The revelation, made before a House subcommittee examining the proposed merger for antitrust concerns, was meant to suggest ...
Music Executive Ridiculed at Pirate Bay Trial
STOCKHOLM – Laughter filled The Pirate Bay trial here Wednesday when John Kennedy, the chief executive of the International Federation of Phonographic Industries, testified that people would have purchased every music track they got free file sharing. Kennedy answered an affirmative “Yes" to Pirate Bay defense attorneys when asked whether that was true. Bursting laughter could ...
No Doubt Shows Raise Doubt About Ticketmaster
There’s no question that No Doubt is planning to close its reunion tour on its old Orange County turf with performances July 31 and Aug. 1 at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine. But those shows raise the question of how efficiently Ticketmaster is following through on its recent agreement with the New Jersey attorney general’s office ...
Prosecution Alters Pirate Bay Charges in Bid to Win Conviction
The Pirate Bay prosecutor altered the copyright-infringement charges Tuesday to make it easier to convict the four defendants who co-founded the world's most notorious BitTorrent tracker. Moments later, Hollywood investigators testified about the ease with which they obtained copyright works using the 5-year-old site. But at the outset of Tuesday's proceedings, the prosecutor, Håkan Roswall, announced ...
Live Nation Ticketmaster Merger Hearing Becomes Battle over Chicago Music Scene
The Live Nation Ticketmaster merger was brought before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights yesterday, with the Chicago music scene at the epicenter of testimony both for and against the merger. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the Windy City was used as an example of how the merger wouldn’t violate antitrust laws, with ...
Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger Panned at Senate Hearing
Senators and independent concert promoters took turns at a hearing Tuesday slamming a proposed merger of two of the biggest forces in the music industry -- Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. and Live Nation Worldwide Inc. “It seems to be monopolistic, plain and simple," Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said. “This is not the American dream, as the ...
Google Backs European Case Against Microsoft Browser
Google Inc. is joining forces with European regulators in an attack on Microsoft Corp.'s dominance of the Web browser market, injecting more bad blood between two of computing's most powerful companies. The latest assault on Microsoft's Internet Explorer, announced Tuesday, comes as Google is trying to expand the use of its own Web browser, the ...
Kyte Offers Turnkey Framework for iPhone Music Apps Creation
Mobile video service Kyte is now offering a turnkey framework that streamlines the creation of custom music applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Similar apps are gaining popularity both with artists and fans. Using built in RSS feeds and links the apps deliver video, music, news, tweets, chat and links to purchase. Interscope Geffen A&M ...
