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A proposed file format called MusicDNA will allow content owners to ship up to 32GB of information, such as album cover art, song lyrics, and even up-to-the minute blog posts and concert listings, alongside a music file. If enough content owners and distributors sign on, it could become an alternative to the MP3, giving users a more album-like digital playback experience, and allowing artists and content owners to charge more money per download. (more…)
Google Inc. and major music companies launched a free Internet music download service for China on Monday in a bid to help turn a field dominated by pirates into a profitable, legitimate business. (more…)
Yahoo is introducing a new type of search advertising that integrates images and video in paid listings, the company plans to announce Thursday.
Search advertising typically shows only text advertisements and links. Marketers usually devote part of their online budget to search — which shows text-only advertisements and links — and part to display, the banner and box advertisements that show images or video.
By introducing video and images, the new offering from Yahoo, called Rich Ads in Search, gives search some of the advantages of banner advertisements. “It moves the advertising experience from just the blue links, to a more engaging experience for advertisers,” said Tim Mayer, the vice president for search monetization and distribution at Yahoo. (more…)
Talk about strange bedfellows: Google (NSDQ:GOOG) Monday licensed software from rival Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT)’s Exchange ActiveSync protocol that will let Google users transfer data to iPhones and Windows Mobile phones. (more…)
Fourteen news organizations, including The Associated Press and The New York Times Co., are urging a federal appeals court to allow online streaming of a hearing in a music downloading lawsuit the recording industry filed against a Boston University graduate student.
The brief filed Thursday in the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals argues that allowing webcasting of the Feb. 24 hearing is in the public interest, and is in keeping with camera access already granted in the courts. (more…)
In an effort to keep pace with rival Netflix, Blockbuster announced a partnership Wednesday to offer instant access to its video library through various home and portable devices.
The movie rental company has partnered with Sonic Solutions to offer more than 10,000 movies for rent and sale to a variety of PCs, cell phones, portable media players, Internet-connected televisions, and Blu-ray disc players. The collection of offerings will be a combination of titles from Blockbuster and CinemaNow, a movie downloading service Sonic recently purchased. (more…)
Palm’s Pre won CNET’s Best of CES award for 2009, and is getting tons of love from around the tech world. Not a bad accomplishment for a smartphone with a completely new OS, from a company written off as dead not long ago.
I wrote something like this about RIM’s BlackBerry Storm and got some heat for it, but still…where’s the music?
I don’t mean that the Pre won’t play music–of course it will. Palm even announced a deal with Amazon to let users buy music downloads without any intervention (cooperation? interference?) from the carrier, Sprint. (more…)
If there was one overarching theme from the Consumer Electronics Show here last week, it was that absolutely every device in our lives is becoming a computer connected to the Internet.
The sleek little Palm Pre phone promises to make it easy to call your friends by looking up their numbers on Facebook.
A new version of the Ford F150 pickup truck will let contractors check service manuals by browsing the Web from an in-dash computer. (more…)
Yahoo Inc wants viewers to “fall in love” with its effort to bring the Web to the TV, but questions remain about how the service will operate and how successful it will be in reaching consumers.
It’s an ambitious undertaking because past attempts to “converge” the online and TV worlds have sputtered.
A few years ago, Palm was the unquestioned leader in the U.S. smartphone and PDA market. But it has failed to keep deliver devices that consumers lusted after, and it has been rapidly losing customers and has posted six consecutive quarterly losses.
