industry

Opinion: What's next for Asia's mobile industry?

Crave That might be a cynical way of looking at it, but nevertheless what the iPhone has shown the rest of the industry is that by allowing third-party developers to create a proper app ecosystem, the consumer experience becomes much more meaningful.

13 October 2008, 13:32

The monster awakes: Kong set for groundbreaking online release

Crave In the past, the movie industry has behaved a lot like King Kong, wandering wounded through the Internet, lashing out at anything that looks like it might pose a threat. It's a huge departure from the movie industry's first reaction to the Internet...

Tags: industry, film, itunes, universal

27 March 2006, 7:58

Government wins: Major UK ISPs forced to fight piracy for BPI

Crave In what the British Phonographic Industry is calling a 'ground-breaking' agreement, the six largest ISPs in the UK are to send hundreds of thousands of letters to their customers who have been reported by the BPI to be illegally sharing music over...

Tags: sharing, identify, letters, industry

24 July 2008, 9:44

Inside TorrentFreak: Ernesto's art of the niche

Crave You're statistically likely to have never heard of TorrentFreak -- a blog that focuses solely on the file-sharing and BitTorrent industry and the controversies that surround it. Entire social networks exist solely for people in the CCTV industry...

12 November 2008, 11:24

USB 3.0: Coming in '09

Crave USB is the next advancement in ubiquitous technology," Jeff Ravencraft, the president of the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the industry group that promotes USB technology, said in a statement on Monday.

Tags: industry, usb, products, forum

18 November 2008, 9:49

Google patent could spark network bidding war

Crave The application was published the day after Google launched its first major play in the mobile industry, the open-source Android platform. The scenario described in Google's patent application stands in sharp contrast to the way the mobile industry...

Tags: published, session, locked, portable

30 September 2008, 9:14

LimeWire opens music store: Earth still turning

Crave LimeWire, however, still operates its hated-by-the-entertainment-industry network of illegal downloaders, and we don't expect Sony or Warner Music to sign any distribution deals until its roster of artists are blocked from the controversial network.

Tags: labels, industry, store, songs

18 March 2008, 10:00

Amazon to bring DRM-free music store to Europe

Crave It has garnered a positive reception in the industry, not to mention from consumers -- anything downloaded from the store can be freely burnt to CD, and transferred to pretty much any music player, without risk of incompatibility or file expiration.

Tags: international, store, industry, itunes

28 January 2008, 10:12

Crave Talk: Why are all our gadgets glossy?

Crave But where does this desire for shiny things come from, and why is the consumer electronics industry so keen to exploit it? The laptop industry has taken particular advantage of our 'magpie instinct' to flock towards the glossiest computer in the...

Tags: industry, value, human, water

20 February 2007, 11:21

Let the people rip, says influential think tank

Crave The report also advises the government to resist the music industry's appeals for any advance on the current 50-year limit of copyright for sound recordings. The report notes that "it is not the music industry's job to decide what rights consumers...

Tags: industry, consumers, government, job

30 October 2006, 11:37

Crave Talk: A format war of mobile music downloads?

Crave This would prevent confusion, increase consumer comfort with downloading on-the-go, and ultimately give the music industry a return it sorely needs right now. Hopefully 2008 won't see the start of another format war, as there's really no space for...

Tags: industry, model, unlimited, consumers

3 April 2008, 13:32

Crave Talk: Is iTunes right for movies?

Crave Also, this does nothing to solve the film industry's abuse of consumer rights by preventing people from watching films they have bought in a different region. A smart industry would grab the chance to get closer to its audience and fine-tune its...

Tags: apple, industry, jobs, consumer

21 June 2006, 11:05

50 most bizarre social networks

Crave Comely ladies -- and lads -- can network with photographers, agents and other lookers in the modelling industry at ModelMayhem. One more from Ning: CCTVblog, a network for people in the CCTV industry, and not for perverts.

16 June 2008, 13:24

Crave Talk: Why do all our gadgets break?

Crave The fashion industry relies on your eagerness to keep up with changes in style to keep their new products selling, while the technology industry used to rely on the simple fact that computers were never quite fast enough for the average user.

Tags: consumer, upgrade, mobile phones, technical

28 November 2006, 12:16

The Ultimate Tech Celebrity Deathmatches

Crave Fighting them were five lawyers from the Recording Industry Association of America, which since July 2006 has sued over 20,000 music fans, including 12-year old girls, dead women and people who don't own computers.

7 March 2008, 7:30