Digital rights management provider Destra has attempted a low-key spoil of tonight's long-awaited announcement by ninemsn of its entry to the Australian online music market, announcing Warner Music Australia's participation in its Internet music service.
Warner Music Australia has signed an 'in-principle' deal with Telstra to provide content to the BigPond Internet music service, but the partners are staying cagey about the pricing arrangements.
As part of their major truce announced Thursday, AOL Time Warner and Microsoft pledged to discuss making their instant messenger products talk to each other.
America Online moved aggressively on Thursday to improve its ad prospects, announcing its acquisition of interactive marketing specialist Advertising.com for US$435m.
America Online is expected to launch an Internet-phone service in the United States next month, leapfrogging rivals in a fast-growing market as it seeks to evolve from an also-ran provider of dial-up Internet access to a broadband services powerhouse.
During a trip to the US four years ago, I rented a car fitted with an XM satellite radio which gave me well over 100 radio stations, each carrying a continuous stream of crystal-clear talk radio or music in a surprising array of genres.
Google promises purity in its interface and results, but expect more ads, video links and AIM chat.
Discovering how your favourite search engine protects your privacy is not an easy task, despite recent moves from the major players to make policies more transparent.
Sony has been in the news a lot in the last year, but mostly for the wrong reasons.
Yahoo continues to struggle behind Google in the US but in Australia, it's a slightly different story -- NineMSN, the partnership between Kerry Packer's PBL and Microsoft, remains a major stumbling block for the online giant.
The Internet's governing technical body gives a stamp of approval to a group intent on creating an open standard for instant messaging.
Netscape these days survives as a desolate outpost in the vast AOL Time Warner empire, something akin to banishment to Irkutsk. But what if history had a different twist?
AOL Time Warner has updated its popular Winamp MP3 player, adding video capabilities that bring the program into direct competition with Microsoft, Apple and RealNetworks.
So much for Netscape 8.0. That's one upshot of Thursday's settlement between Microsoft and AOL Time Warner, according to industry analysts.
The Internet's governing technical body gives a stamp of approval to a group intent on creating an open standard for instant messaging.
If you haven't looked at Netscape in a while, version 8 is worth it for its added security and extra features.
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