‘Father of PlayStation’ says ‘Game Over’
Ken Kutaragi, the inventor of the PlayStation video game consoles, steps down as CEO amid increased competition from Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo Wii.
The inventor of Sony Corp.’s PlayStation video game consoles, Ken Kutaragi, will retire as chief executive of the Japanese company’s game division on June 19, the company said Thursday.
Kutaragi, 56, known as the “Father [...]
CRIA Reports Canada’s Music Sales Declined 35% in Q1
Following the largest-ever annual decline in
Canada’s music market – a 12 percent drop from 2005 to 2006 – sales of CDs, music DVDs and other “physical” music formats fell an unprecedented 35 percent in the first quarter of 2007 compared with the same period a year earlier, the Canadian Recording Industry Association reported today.
This comes [...]
Joost signs major advertisers for TV-over-Web plan
Joost, the Internet TV company founded by Europe’s top Web entrepreneurs, has taken a big step towards commercial viability by signing up 31 advertisers worldwide ahead of the launch of its free service.
The company, aiming to become a new kind of global cable TV network on the Web, was started last year by Niklas Zennstrom [...]
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Steve Jobs: ‘No subscription-based iTunes’
Says customers not into renting music — and I agree.
Record labels have been supposedly asking Apple to introduce a music subscription service to its iTunes digital music download store in an attempt to increase profits but, Steve Jobs is adamant that “customers don’t seem to be interested in it”.
Apple is gearing up for [...]
Ohio University bans P2P
In an open letter to students, the university announces that it will now restrict the use of all “P2P, or file-sharing on the campus computer network”.
Ohio University has currently received the most complaints from the RIAA regarding illegal music downloading to date, having received some 1,287 notices since last September, and averaging 10-15 new ones [...]
Is the RIAA Pulling a Scam on the Music Industry?
There has been an understandable public outcry against the RIAA’s attempts to more than triple the sound recording copyright royalties on Internet radio. (See Save Internet Radio from Corporate Money Grab) One solution proposed by Webcasters is to just not play RIAA-member songs under the assumption that then they don’t have to pay the royalty [...]
Lawyer says accused ’sharers’ should resist legal claims
People who claim they have been wrongly accused of illegally sharing computer games on P2P networks should stand up to their accusers, a legal expert said today.
The comments came as Davenport Lyons, the law firm taking action for games publisher Zuxxez, continues to chase 500 British people it claims illegally shared the game Dream Pinball [...]
iTunes Store a greater cash crop than Apple implies?
Although Apple has repeatedly said that its iTunes Store operates at “just above break even,” a thorough analysis of the service’s economics suggests it turns a profit roughly in line with the company average, with recent events paving the way for even greater gains.
Based on per-song cost estimates, the ubiquitous iTunes service generates an operating [...]
Vista betas will kill your data
MICROSOFT HAS let it be known that the behaviour of Windows Vista beta copies is about to change fairly substantially.
From May 31, anybody using a beta copy of the OS will find that their machine reboots every two hours, and that intermediate access will be limited to base-level file retrieval. That means that you could [...]
