Microsoft Unleases Three Way Attack To Control Media Marketplace
In a major (and long expected) move to integrate and control how we purchase and enjoy music, film, and all digital media Microsoft has just announced: WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 10. Continue reading
(CelebrityAccess MediaWire) The live music scene is flourishing in the United Kingdom according to the first ever survey by the Live Music Forum. Almost half of the venues, which took. Continue reading
Rockin’ The Vote Radio Invades NYC
FMQB reports that with the Republican National Convention kicking off in New York City today, Viacom/Infinity Broadcasting Modern Rock outlet WXRK (K-Rock) is making a statement by letting Axis Of. Continue reading
Look familiar? It’s Hewlett Packard’s new version of the iPod, but except for a different logo on the cover it might as well BE an iPod. It’s part of HP’s. Continue reading
Big Champagne’s Weekly Download Chart
Internet download watchdog Big Champagne’s weekly chart may just be the only accurate measure of what music the public really wants. No economic motives. No label manipulation (yet). Just what. Continue reading
Free Music Compilations For Hair Salons
In what hypebot thinks is a smart and innovative move to expose new music releases to the important female 18+ demographic, Audio Fidelity is launching a new venture with John. Continue reading
Hollywood Reporter Names Billboard’s Chris Morris Music Editor
Billboard senior writer Chris Morris is joining The Hollywood Reporter as music editor, editor Howard Burns announced yesterday. Morris replaces Tamara Conniff, who recently was appointed as an executive editor. Continue reading
Broadband Users Outnumber Dial-up
From The Hollywood Reporter: “Early Internet entrepreneurs envisioned a day when consumers would devour short bites of entertainment on their computer screens delivered over the Internet by fat broadband pipes.. Continue reading
The Recod Business May Be Hurting But BMI Is Rockin’
Even as labels complain about the effects of illegal downloading and competition from new media, the Hollywood Reporter writes that performance rights organization BMI “posted record revenue and royalties for. Continue reading
TiVo For XM & Sirius
MusicBiz is reports that XM is about to offer a new high-tech toy – receivers capable of storing up to 30 minutes of a live broadcast to play back at. Continue reading