...ugust 31, 2008, those songs will not successfully play," said Microsoft in an e-mail. It is similar to Sony 's move to kill off its "Atrac" format and related Connect music store. Sony began a new di...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:01
In an effort to turn around a declining music business, Sony -BMG is
currently in discussions to offer a flatrate-based music download
service. In an interview with a German newspaper, CEO Rol
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:57
...its international customers. Amazon is offering DRM -free music from EMI, Universal, Warner as well as Sony , which joined the lineup earlier this month. The portfolio also includes 33,000 independent...
Monday, January 28, 2008 17:01
...he song owners and claims that deals have been made with the four major record labels: Universal Music, Sony -BMG, Warner Music Group and EMI. Interestingly enough, those labels haven’t yet...
Monday, January 28, 2008 03:18
Sony BMG will be joining Amazon MP3 as the last of the four major music labels to offer music download without copy protection. Seattle (WA) – Sony BMG will be joining Amazon MP3 as the last o
Thursday, January 10, 2008 16:59
Yes, even we thought it might never happen, but Sony BMG has apparently waved the white surrender flag on DRM and plans on distributing a portion of its music collection as DRM -free songs. New York
Friday, January 04, 2008 12:38
...e Inquirer, where they make some predictions about what'll be up in 2008: Inventions #10 - A Sony plan for a skateboard that operates like a Segway. #9 - Digit-saving biometrics, which...
Friday, December 28, 2007 19:10
...DRM , or Digital Rights Management. This latest move away from DRM , the third in the industry with Sony as the only remaining holdout (see TGDaily.com's coverage of their reputation damaging ...
Thursday, December 27, 2007 22:13
Even though Sony admitted failure with its Connect digital music store, the company's mobile phone division is mulling its own music platform. London (England) - Even though Sony admitted failure
Wednesday, November 07, 2007 08:00
Customers with an extensive library of songs on Sony 's Connect store will need to act quickly before their collection essentially gets wiped out early next year. Culver City (CA) - Customers wit
Thursday, August 30, 2007 13:33
... still five cents less than the standard price for a song with copy protection on Apple's iTunes or Sony 's Connect, the two top online music sellers. Wal-Mart's online music store ch...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:27
...p; In May 2006, Business Week reported that the five studios who invested in Movielink (MGM, Paramount, Sony , Universal, and Warner Bros) were looking to sell the site. Blockbuster was the first...
Thursday, August 09, 2007 12:10
... and use them. Microsoft has the breadth but not the focus, Apple the skills but not the breadth, Sony the capability but not the will, and we are left waiting for the one company which can pull...
Friday, July 20, 2007 08:55
Sony is suing the Amergence Group for negligence and breach of contract over its MediaMax CD copy protection technology. Culver City (CA) – Sony is suing the Amergence Group for negligence an
Friday, July 13, 2007 13:59
...ready showcased a Wi-Fi enabled device at the most recent CES, while sources indicated that Samsung and Sony are currently preparing the launch of wireless MP3 players....
Friday, April 13, 2007 10:45
...rom the Sprint Music Store are priced at $2.49. The markup over most other stores like iTunes and Sony Connect led many to overlook the Sprint service. The new 99 cent price point matches ...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:27
Sony said it has developed a new block cipher algorithm that is designed to enable “advanced” copyright protection and authentication for the distribution of digital content such as music
Friday, March 23, 2007 13:35
...s. Movielink is currently a joint venture from several movie studios, with ownership belonging to MGM, Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios, and Warner Bros. If Blockbuster took...
Thursday, March 01, 2007 12:38
... flash players, Creative Labs, which had luggable hard drive-based players and some flash products, and Sony , which had attractive products that were crippled by a horrid DRM implementation. App...
Thursday, February 15, 2007 16:27
...estricted MP3 versions of songs to consumers. EMI is one of the big four. Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, and Warner Music Group round out the dominating record companies. Warner has voi...
Friday, February 09, 2007 11:21
...You can read the 1800-word letter here. In it he blames the big four music companies, namely Universal, Sony BMG, Warner and EMI of forcing iTunes to use DRM to protect music sales. According to Jobs,...
Tuesday, February 06, 2007 16:13
Sony BMG Music has reached a preliminary settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over its use of hidden copy-protection in music CDs. Santa Monica (CA) - Sony BMG Music has reached a preli
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 23:08
...ds. Toshiba is penetration pricing - you could think that they actually want to win this battle against Sony and they are foregoing the healthy margins to get there. Toshiba knows that Blu-ray has a s...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007 20:26
...day's online video market is its pricing model. Netflix apparently already convinced NBC Universal, Sony Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., New Line...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 18:12
...e consumer electronics vendors mostly didn't understand. The tragic competitive example was the initial Sony MP3 line, which, physically, was vastly more attractive than Apple's. But its was so diffic...
Saturday, January 06, 2007 18:07
...rences on Sunday morning (LG Electronics, Pioneer, Toshiba, Philips, Sharp, RCA, Samsung, Panasonic and Sony ), we already count about 20 noteworthy announcements. The Tom's Hardware editorial team wil...
Friday, January 05, 2007 05:00
...t commitments, or complete offerings and, unless that changes, they will miss this opportunity as well. Sony , as a product company, is unmatched with hardware in all of the critical areas and an histo...
Thursday, December 28, 2006 14:40
... all digital restrictions. Currently, the most popular places for buying digital music, like iTunes and Sony Connect, encode all purchased songs such that they can only be directly transferred to spec...
Thursday, December 07, 2006 18:23
This has not been a great couple of years for Sony . We had the rootkit catastrophe last year and the battery disaster this year. A number of us have been increasingly concerned that the PS 3 would be
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 14:59
Another major deal in the very-fast-growing Web video sharing field was announced today, with Sony Pictures acquiring Grouper Networks, proprietor of one of YouTube's most intriguing competitors. The
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 19:05
...major artists that actually sells without digital rights management (DRM ). In a rather surprising move, Sony BMG released Jessica Simpson's "A Public Affair" went on sale for $2 this week at Yahoo Mus...
Friday, July 21, 2006 15:52
...succeeds, but doesn't succeed too much? If Microsoft were to price an "Xplayer" near the price point of Sony 's Playstation Portable - where it might have to be in order to make a dent - it could be lo...
Friday, July 07, 2006 18:08
Sony is announcing its new Flash memory-based Walkman for the European market, in the company's latest effort to re-energize the once venerable Walkman brand. Its new models, in any of six colors, co
Tuesday, April 04, 2006 22:21
Movielink and CinemaNow have begun offering movie downloads. While consumers are promised the convenience of having downloads available at the same time a movie is released on DVD, both services are
Monday, April 03, 2006 21:49
According to Microsoft's key representative with the licensing body responsible for AACS copy protection, high-definition disc players will never require an exclusive, wired connection to the Interne
Wednesday, March 22, 2006 15:50
Two key milestones in the settlement of digital rights management issues regarding next-generation high-definition content, took place this week: an interim agreement on the final AACS specification,
Thursday, February 23, 2006 23:05
SunCom Wireless, a wireless service provider for North and South Carolina, Georgia, parts of Tennessee and Virginia, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands, has won a contract with Ericsson to provid
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 15:00
...covered the presence of stealth techniques to mask the presence of digital rights management drivers in Sony BMG audio CDs, announced this morning he has discovered rootkit-like stealth in two popular...
Monday, February 06, 2006 17:18
How much stealth is being used everyday by the software upon which we've come to depend? Last night, Symantec had to issue a security advisory about a piece of its own software, whose own stealth tec
Friday, January 13, 2006 17:48
Last week was CES and there were a number of amazing products. These carried the promise of "convergence" or the idea that the best of what was available in the consumer electronics world would merge
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 14:41
...ew York has given its preliminary approval to a settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought on against Sony by buyers of music CDs that carried XCP DRM protection. Buyers will be compensated with a C...
Monday, January 09, 2006 22:57
The first official day of this year's Consumer Electronics Show - which we who keep count call "Day 2" - brought the two competing high-definition videodisc formats back into the spotlight. Meanwhile
Saturday, January 07, 2006 04:32
Intel CEO Paul Otellini's keynote address to CES Thursday evening provided some flash along with some substance, but not necessarily a banquet of both. How will Intel be able to sell its message of u
Friday, January 06, 2006 17:38
In the Thursday morning keynote address at CES 2006, Sony chairman and CEO Sir Howard Stringer made a bold attempt to project an image of his company as not having gone off-track. With a little help
Thursday, January 05, 2006 22:27
For the first time, the full weight of the TG Publishing network of Web sites will be brought to bear against the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas all this week. We've assembled t
Wednesday, January 04, 2006 04:59
Portable music and video is all the rage these days, but what about the old-fashioned book? Sony will launch a modified version of its Librie E-Book reader at CES 2006 in Las Vegas. The reader displa
Thursday, December 29, 2005 23:13
Lawyers in a class action lawsuit filed against Sony BMG, First 4 Internet and SunnComm last month have submitted a preliminary settlement, which calls for Sony to stop manufacturing CDs with X
Thursday, December 29, 2005 21:32
US band My Morning Jacket has waded into the debate over copy protection by sending fans DRM -free copies of its album.
Friday, December 16, 2005 17:45
The US computer scientists who discovered a significant security flaw in one of Sony BMG's CD copy protection systems have discovered that the flaw is still present in the patch released by the
Friday, December 09, 2005 00:38
With Microsoft taking its next bold step in the evolution of its global gaming platform, the company reaches into our households and our lives with one more appealing value proposition. What's the re
Tuesday, November 22, 2005 17:08
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