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Will Apple pay you to share your headphones?

by Mathew on October 24, 2006 · 9 comments

According to rumours that are making the rounds of the gadget-blogosphere, Microsoft is planning to add a social-commerce aspect to its new Zune player. In addition to being able to share songs with other Zune users wirelessly, owners could be compensated with points if another user eventually buys one of the songs that was shared. [...]

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Yahoo! — more music without DRM

by Mathew on September 19, 2006 · 0 comments

The folks at Disney seem to be jumping all over the digital media bandwagon lately, what with the deal to sell movies through Apple’s new movie-download service (the only studio to sign up with Apple so far), and now a deal with Yahoo to sell an entire album from a Disney artist — Jesse McCartney [...]

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Media is Jell-O, the Web is the wall

by Mathew on May 9, 2006 · 1 comment

And you are the nail. Every day there are new signs of how traditional media — newspapers, radio, television — are morphing and shifting and changing, as content finds new routes to the consumer, like water finding the easiest path as it flows downhill. Fox announces a deal to sell shows via iTunes, Warner Brothers [...]

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Apple may have won — but is that good?

by Mathew on April 24, 2006 · 0 comments

According to a recent piece in the New York Post, Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs — now also known as the King of Digital Music — is close to winning his battle against the four major record labels, a battle he has been fighting for the past year or so. On the face of [...]

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Yes, Apple rules — but… ho hum

by Mathew on January 10, 2006 · 6 comments

I don’t want to add to my reputation as a wet blanket, and I would like to state for the record that I like Apple a lot — really. Their products are great, and I know that they dominate the digital music business and are raking in piles of cash, not to mention having really [...]

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