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Best Buy to Buy Napster for $121 Million
Electronics retailer Best Buy announced Monday that it will acquire online music service Napster for $121 million. Best Buy will acquire Napster's 700,000 digital entertainment subscribers, its Web-based customer service platform, and mobile applications, Best Buy said. The deal, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter, has been approved by the Napster board of ...
Myspace Music to Start with Major Ad Sponsors
NEW YORK - News Corp's MySpace, the world's largest social networking site, said on Sunday its long-expected MySpace Music joint venture with three major music labels will launch with four major sponsors underwriting the costs of streaming free music to millions of MySpace users. MySpace said McDonald's, Sony Pictures, Toyota and State Farm will power access ...
Yahoo Plans to Open Yahoo Music to iTunes, Others
SUNNYVALE, CA - Yahoo Inc plans to open its online music site to feature information about songs and artists from outside services such as Apple Inc iTunes or Amazon.com, an executive said on Thursday. “We are going to completely open up Yahoo Music in the next few weeks," Scott Moore, the executive in charge of Yahoo's ...
Google Invests in Satellite 'Net Firm
Google announced Thursday that it will invest in a company that intends to provide high-speed Internet access to developing countries via satellite. The search engine giant will contribute an undisclosed amount of money to O3b Networks, which is looking to provide fiber-like Internet services by utilizing medium-orbit satellites. “This means data can be quickly transmitted to ...
St. Louis Jazz Notes Jazz Calendar Updated
Be advised that yr. humble & harried editor has just about completed an extensive update of the St. Louis Jazz Notes Calendar.Among the additions are everything that' s been announced so far about the 2008-09 musical lineups for Jazz at the Bistro, the Sheldon Concert Hall, the Touhill Performing Arts Center, and New Music ...
Why Does Texting Cost so Much, Senate Asks
The chair of the U.S. Senate's antitrust panel sent a letter to four top mobile phone companies on Tuesday asking them to explain what he said were a doubling in the price of text messages in three years. Sen. Herb Kohl, chair of the antitrust subcommittee and a Wisconsin Democrat, wrote to Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc, ...
Apple Unveils New iPods, Genius Playlists, HDTV, NBC
Apple Inc. emphasized its leadership in the digital music market this morning at an event in San Francisco, as CEO Steve Jobs introduced new models of its most popular iPod music players, as well as a new version of the company's iTunes media management software. The revised version of the iPod Touch and iPod Nano, as ...
Analysis: How Google Has Changed Our Lives
Ten years ago, I sat next to a filing cabinet of press releases, notes, presentations, and financial documents. My crappy Compaq 386 notebook chugged away on my desk. And someone down the hall—I think it might have been Will Wade of EE Times—told me to check this new site out. So I did. Damn. I personally ...
Battle of Net Neutrality: Comcast Appeals FCC Throttling Order
Comcast on Thursday appealed the Federal Communication Commission's order that it stop its controversial practice of throttling file sharing traffic. On Aug. 1, FCC commissioners concluded on a 3-2 vote that Comcast monitored the content of its customers' internet connections and selectively blocked peer-to-peer connections using the BitTorrent protocol. The commission found that Comcast violated so-called ...
File Sharing Lawsuits at a Crossroads After 5 Years of RIAA Litigation
It was five years ago Monday the Recording Industry Association of America began its massive litigation campaign that now includes more than 30,000 lawsuits targeting alleged copyright scofflaws on peer-to-peer networks. The targets include the elderly, students, children and even the dead. No one in the U.S. who uses Kazaa, Limewire or other file sharing networks ...
