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Is Napster on the ropes?

News The digital-music subscription company says absolutely not, strongly denying reports that it is planning to make major layoffs, reorganise the business or even liquidate the company. Citing "sources inside the organisation", the Web site Digital...

19 January 2006, 11:10

Virus-infected Creative Zen MP3 players found

News A number of Creative's Zen digital-music players infected with the Wullik.B virus have been shipped to consumers in Japan. Infected Neeons, which have been on sale since May, will not be affected by the virus as the digital-music players do not run...

2 September 2005, 8:35

Legal music downloads triple worldwide

News Legal digital song downloads around the world have tripled in the past year, while the growth of music piracy on peer-to-peer networks appears to have slowed, according to record labels. IFPI also said that digital music subscriptions were growing...

22 July 2005, 10:12

Amazon delivers cinema to the home

News Apple has all but cornered digital music, so Amazon has set its sites on video downloads. Amazon's download site was supposed to be a music-centric site a year ago, when executives began designing the service, but the e-tailer is concentrating on...

25 July 2006, 9:09

News.blog: France approves iTunes law

News Apple will have to play better with digital-music others in France. An earlier version of the legislation drew fierce criticism from Apple as "state-sponsored piracy" because it would have required companies to share details of their digital rights...

3 July 2006, 9:12

Apple and EMI strike DRM-free deal

News EMI will soon sell digital music with better sound quality and no digital rights management restrictions through Apple's iTunes Store. The higher-quality, DRM-free music, which can be played on any computer and any digital-audio player, will not...

3 April 2007, 10:13

Napster, Ericsson join forces for mobile music

News Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson and Napster said on Tuesday they would team up to offer a new digital music service aimed at mobile phone customers around the world. The two companies said they would combine elements of both companies...

15 June 2005, 10:49

Microsoft to pay Universal for Zune sales

News Microsoft has agreed to pay Universal Music Group (UMG) a per-device royalty for each of the Redmond company's Zune digital music players the music company sells. A Microsoft spokesman said the company is hoping to support artists and ensure they...

13 November 2006, 9:27

News.blog: Amazon to challenge iTunes?

News Amazon looks like it will become the latest company to try to take on Apple in the digital music marketplace. But the Amazon store may offer a new twist: no digital rights management software. A report in the Times Online says Amazon plans to open...

25 April 2007, 10:33

Microsoft pushes for iPod-killing dock

News Hoping to loosen Apple's grip on the digital music player market, Microsoft is rallying consumer electronics companies to form a common link. However, the specification would not dictate what digital music encryption methods are used.

1 December 2005, 9:57

Music industry seeks Hollywood's release timing

News But the digital music market has already moved to a diverse model, particularly when mobile consumers are counted, Thomas Hesse, president of global business for Sony BMG Music Entertainment, said in a speech at the Music 2.0 conference on Tuesday.

10 August 2005, 9:22

MTV teams up with Microsoft for music service

News After promising to launch a digital music service for several years, MTV said on Tuesday that it is close to releasing an online music shop that will throw it into competition with iTunes and Napster.

14 December 2005, 10:18

UK online music hobbled by high prices

News High prices and digital rights management incompatibility are slowing the take-up of online music services in the UK, according to analyst IDC. Armitage said that part of the problem is that record labels aren't passing on the savings from selling...

30 September 2005, 9:52

News.blog: Xbox division 'making new music player'

News The Argo is the warship on which the Greek hero Jason sailed to adventure, and it is also the code name given to Microsoft's new digital music player, according to a report in the Seattle Times. News arrived last week that Microsoft is set to...

11 July 2006, 10:25

Illegal music three times more popular than buying

News According to a new report from analyst house JupiterResearch, consumers are three times more likely to get their digital music from illegal file-sharing networks than pay to download the tracks from online song shops such as iTunes and Napster...

30 November 2005, 8:29

Format wars: The tech that should have won

Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed

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