Archive for May, 2004
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 28 May 2004 | Tagged as: Content, Industry Trends, User Generated Content (UGC), Web
As a follow up to our piece on the Creative Commons licensing of the BBC’s Creative Archive, we were fortunate to get an interview with Paula Le Dieu, Joint Director on the BBC Creative Archive project.
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 28 May 2004 | Tagged as: Computer-Centric, Gaming, Platforms, PVR/DVR
Microsoft may be looking to bring out a version of Xbox Next that borrows a few ideas from Sony’s PSX home media centre.
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 28 May 2004 | Tagged as: Broadband, Business
The UK telecoms company will be offering bills detailing time spent on line and bandwidth to its wholesale customers.
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 28 May 2004 | Tagged as: Distribution, Music
The music industry’s downloading education site, pro-music.org has celebrates its first birthday with a directory of legal music sites.
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 28 May 2004 | Tagged as: Content, Content Indexing & Navigation, Legal
The California state senate has approved a bill that places restrictions on ISPs who scan customer emails.
Posted by Simon Perry on 27 May 2004 | Tagged as: _events
The International Energy Agency is pleased to host a workshop examining the energy efficiency of set-top boxes – the term used to describe a wide range of products that allow televisions to receive digital broadcast signals, connect to the internet, or perform a host of other multi-media functions.
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 27 May 2004 | Tagged as: Distribution, Music, Pricing
Just a couple of days behind Napster UK, napster.ca hits the web. It’s considerably cheaper that the UK one too – don’t these people think we have access to the internet?
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 27 May 2004 | Tagged as: Mobile, Music, Platforms
Nokia’s revision to its N-Gage mobile games platform, the QD has begun shipping.
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 27 May 2004 | Tagged as: Business, Components, Industry Trends
Rather than focussing on processor speeds and cache sizes, Intel will be marketing the benefits and features of its PC chip sets, like the forthcoming Grantsdale.
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 27 May 2004 | Tagged as: Content, Mobile, Music
Aside from Napster, prices for downloaded tunes are falling – except for ringtones. Is it because they’re annoying? Or are you just being fleeced?