Amazon.com today announced it will launch a digital music store later this year offering millions of songs in the DRM-free MP3 format from more than 12,000 record labels, including EMI. Every song and album in the Amazon.com digital music store will be available exclusively in the MP3 format without digital rights management (DRM) software. Amazon’s […]

Microsoft is now offering the Zune – Halo 3 Edition, which comes preloaded with a collection of Halo-related music, videos and artwork: Videos: Halo 3 ‚ÄúStarry Night‚Äù advertisement Halo 3 E3 2006 announcement trailer Halo 2 theatrical teaser trailer Three Halo 3 ‚Äúmaking of‚Äù documentary videos A custom episode of Red vs. Blue ‚Äì just […]

The WordPress development team has announced the immediate availability of version 2.2 “Getz” for download. This version, named in honor of tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, includes a number of new features, most notably Widgets integration, and over two hundred bug fixes. WordPress has become popular among podcasters as a free tool for publishing blogs, podcasts […]

PennSound, a project of the University of Pennsylvania, is a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet. PennSound offers a large variety of digital recordings of poems — currently 1,500 and fast growing — mostly as song-length singles. “This has never been done before,” said Al […]

It looks like the recent Valleywag hype on Natalie Portman becoming the first 24/7 lifecast video star was unfounded. Boston.com reports that the supposed investor in the project, George Zachary of the Waltham-based Charles River Ventures, has revealed the Natalie Portman lifecast to be bogus. “We do enjoy talking with Natalie but don’t have more […]

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is pushing Congress to enact a sweeping new intellectual property bill, the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007, that would increase criminal penalties for copyright infringement, including “attempts” to commit piracy where no actual copyright infringement occurs. “To meet the global challenges of IP crime, our criminal laws must be […]

Media delivery network Akamai Technologies today announced the availability of Akamai Live Streaming in the Adobe Flash FLV format for delivering live, real-time audio and video formatted for playback using the Adobe Flash Player. Akamai‚Äôs distributed architecture is designed to handle live online events and scale to support thousands of simultaneous viewers. Through a series […]

Ozzy Osbourne wants you to direct his next video, for the track I Don’t Wanna Stop from his upcoming album Black Rain. He’s offering prizes for the best music video, including a Sony HD video cam. Here are the details: Here’s what we’re looking for. Ozzy wants a video for his new single “I Don’t […]

Apple today announced that Paul McCartney‚Äôs new album, Memory Almost Full, is now available for digital pre-order, and McCartney’s full catalog of 25 solo albums will be available for the first time digitally on iTunes later this month. iTunes customers pre-ordering the 13 track album in the US will receive the Dance Tonight music video […]

MySpace today announced the launch of a new section within MySpace Video featuring premium content from top corporate news and lifestyle brands. MySpace Video will launch ‚Äúbranded channels‚Äù for National Geographic, The New York Times, Reuters, The Daily Reel, Expert Village, Flow, FOX‚Äôs IGN Entertainment, Octane TV, Kush TV, Ripe TV, Studio411, VBS.tv, and Young […]