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Despite Ringtone Slide Mobile Music to Hit $14.6 Billion by 2013
A sharp fall in ringtone sales will be more than offset by growth in full track downloads, streamed music services and ringback tones, according to a new report from Juniper Research which forecasts that global revenues from mobile music services will reach nearly $14.6 billion by 2013. The report found that many of the key hurdles ...
The Digital Natives: Online Fandom and Community (Part Four)
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor Digital Community With the almost staple experiences behind me as music fan, these interactions with technology provided the necessary building blocks for me to take my next step into the digital world. At this point, I found that I had a passion for writing poetry and ...
The Digital Natives: Youth Culture (Part Three)
Some of the earlier experiences that I've had with music seem more easily related to than those that I've encountered in recent years. After getting my first boom box stereo, of course, one of the first things I found, either through my own inquiry or (perhaps) someone else's example, is that I could record songs off ...
Major Label Acts Get Hip to Music Apps
Apple's app store is doing for music promotion what the company already did for music sales: making it portable, desirable and easy to access. Forget about ringtones and Rhapsody; these apps let you subscribe to artists. Unlike the Presidents of the United States of America app we discovered last week, Kyte's iPhone apps for Universal Music ...
Live Nation/Ticketmaster Merger Face Antitrust Subcommittee Hearing
The potential merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster will face off against the Department of Justice tomorrow as the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights will decide whether the two concert industry superpowers can join forces or if whether the merger violates monopoly laws. The hearing will be titled “The Ticketmaster/Live Nation Merger: What ...
N.J. Settles with Ticketmaster over Springsteen Tickets
The New Jersey attorney general's office has reached a settlement with Ticketmaster over the recent sale of tickets to Bruce Springsteen performances in that state, calling for major changes to the way Ticketmaster does business. The settlement -- announced Monday, a day before hearings open in Washington on the proposed merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation ...
A Free Ticket to Digital Music Forum East
If you can be in New York City this coming Wednesday and Thursday February 25-26, I've got a pass to Digital Music Forum East in exchange for some coverage of the event. It's shaping up to be a very strong conference well worth attending even if you have to pay. DEADLINE MIDNIGHT EST MONDAY 2/23: If ...
How We Bungled the Digital Television Transition
America's transition to over-the-air digital television signals, which netted the government $19 billion in a wireless spectrum auction, was doomed from the start, thanks to a flawed voucher program and a time frame that left the country stranded between administrations. In January, close to two million people were stuck on the waiting list for $40 coupons ...
Feds Propose Storing Internet User Data for 2 Years
In the name of combating child pornography, federal lawmakers are proposing that internet users' online surfing habits be retained for two years. The so-called “Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth Act of 2009," or SAFETY Act, was floated in both the House and Senate on Thursday. Among other things, it demands: “A provider ...
