Sony BMG Music Entertainment, the world's second largest music label, has become the last of the top four majors to scuttle digital rights management (DRM) software on music downloads.
A new generation of music recommendation services is emerging, aimed at helping listeners navigate the often bewildering mass of music now legally available online.
NineMSN has announced it will launch an online music store that will sell music from the "top five" record labels.
Mike Nuttal believes that simplicity is key to a successful product and that integrated devices such as combination mobile phone-camera-MP3 players are a step in the wrong direction.
CEO Michael Robertson wants to take Lindows.com where Microsoft can't go.
Defhead.com chooses music acts, invite them to play at an inner-city Sydney venue and Webcast the show live to their Web site visitors. Here is some behind-the-scenes footage of the night as well as an interview with the lead singer of Something With Numbers.
Yesterday, Beatles songs weren't in the iTunes fray, now it looks as though a deal's been made.
The weekend's Big Brother "sex scandal", during which the official site's live feed and forums were taken offline, highlights an issue that is provoking debate across the globe: to what extent are Web site administrators responsible for the conduct of their users?
Last year I opined that, even if Telstra did launch Apple's iPhone 3G, conflicting goals meant it couldn't afford to seriously back the product. This year, Telstra proved me right, and the reason is simple: Australia's biggest telco just wants to be a Mac.
Well, here we are. After years of bluster, measured progress and loads of annoyance, Australia's broadband users head to the polls on Saturday with a score to settle.
Apple Computer today launched its long-awaited iTunes Music Store in Australia, finally giving iPod owners a legal way of downloading music online. Extra: A peek at other Web stores.
Michael Robertson started MP3.com and Linspire. Now he's taking on iTunes with BadApple.
Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.
Seagate has unveiled two new portable hard drives -- one of which is just 3 inches in diameter, yet capable of storing 5GB of data.
SanDisk co-founder and CEO Eli Harari continues to fight the good fight against Apple's iPod juggernaut, but even he's starting to look toward the future.
iTunes 7 includes some great updates, like gapless playback, games downloads and a better interface, but Australian users so far miss out on the movie downloads available to American users.
We preview a quintet of next-gen MP3 jukeboxes to decide which will be the new audio trendsetter.
We like some aspects of this ultracompact, feature-laden player, but it's just so darned expensive.
In sport there can only be one winner. The Nike/Philips PSA [128MAX MP3 player is definitely in the game but is it a winner? Read our Australian review.
Mike Nuttal believes that simplicity is key to a successful product and that integrated devices such as combination mobile phone-camera-MP3 players are a step in the wrong direction.
Telstra shareholders fear break up
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