Sony Electronics missed an opportunity when it nodded off with the emergence of digital audio players, but it hopes to right its wrongs to better compete with rivals such as Apple Computer.
Sony has released the first of its digital audio players to support the popular MP3 format, marking a significant shift in its music strategy.
MP3.com has launched a new subscription service in a move to raise money and reach profitability.
Mobile storage devices could give thieves and hackers a back door into corporate networks.
In what may be a first for the recording industry, Maverick Records and Vivendi Universal's online division are asking listeners to pay AU$2 for an unprotected MP3 version of a new single.
Microsoft is expected to release the first test version of its new Windows Media Player software Wednesday in the US, marking a significant upgrade aimed squarely at the burgeoning portable device market.
Song-swapping company Napster says it is delaying the launch of its subscription service yet again, after running into serious snags in its settlement talks with the big record labels.
Napster will open its long-promised portable music subscription service Thursday, which will make it the first company to put muscle behind a new music "rental" model aimed at undermining Apple Computer's digital music dominance.
A Princeton University student has published instructions for disabling the new anticopying measures being tested on CDs by BMG--and they're as simple as holding down a computer's Shift key.
It took a move to Athens, Georgia for the improvisational band Day By The River to gain regional fame. A move to the Internet took them global.
A group of technology heavyweights is expected to take the wraps off a secretive effort to secure music and video on wireless devices, according to sources familiar with the plans.
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Microsoft's Technical Beta release of Windows Media Player 10 features a redesigned interface that provides easy access to online media stores. It also syncs better with portable devices.
Version 8.0 of this six-year-old jukebox isn't exactly revolutionary, but it features some notable improvements.
Microsoft released the first test version of its new Windows Media Player software Wednesday, marking a significant upgrade aimed squarely at the burgeoning portable device market.
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.
Iomega has unveiled details of a small, detachable storage drive it is developing for portable electronics gadgets.
iRiver comes through again, with the SlimX iMP-400, improving on an award-winning MP3 CD player.
After much gossip and speculation, it looks like Apple is indeed working on a portable video player. But creating a device that's as easy to use as a music iPod won't be easy.
DivXNetworks unveiled a new version of its compression technology that promises to let Internet users shrink video files on the PC to play back on a range of consumer electronics devices.
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