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MP3.com and Warner Music Group, a division of Time Warner have announced a two-year agreement enabling MP3.com to feature music and videos of Warner artists on its Web site.
Jurors have told a US judge that a US$300,000 copyright infringement verdict against MP3.com should have been several million, but they'd got their maths wrong.
MP3.com has launched a new subscription service in a move to raise money and reach profitability.
Shortly after buying the MP3.com domain name and announcing that its sprawling music archive would close, CNET Networks said Wednesday it will start its own free service for independent musicians online.
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Lindows, a start-up developing software that would let many Windows programs run on Linux computers, has released legal papers designed to head off Microsoft's efforts to thwart the product.
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A new digital storage format called Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is finding its way into consumer products, and it is demonstrably superior to MP3 in a number of ways. Is the format that enabled the rise of online music trading already obsolete?
Without a doubt, one of the biggest stories of 2000 was the rise of Napster and the continuing saga of MP3. But, MP3 is just one of several digital audio formats widely used today.
An Australian ex-pat engineer manages to get Apple's portable MP3 player to run basic parts of the uClinux version of the Linux operating system. But it's only a rough start, he says.
Novel devices such as Internet radios and other appliances keep falling by the wayside. But that hasn't deterred home audio or tech companies from pursuing the quest for the Holy Grail of convergence. Josh and John take a closer look.
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