Consumer Electronics Association President and CEO Gary Shapiro offered his support today for an announcement from Apple and EMI Music that Apple will offer the entire digital music catalog of EMI Music DRM-free in a high quality format. “CEA applauds Apple and EMI Music for recognizing what consumers really want out of their digital music […]

The wonderfully-titled Le Journal du Geek (French) has the scoop on this bizarre iPod dock, the Dragon 1: The Dragon I iPod dock features tentacles that house individual speakers, with a collective output of 20 watts. The speaker tendrils can be bent to direct sound in any direction you like. The Dragon I speakers costs […]

The EU has launched an inquiry into what Apple’s online music store iTunes charges users across Europe, accusing it of restricting customer choice, resulting in higher prices for some consumers. The EU is considering whether agreements between Apple and record companies violate EU laws by preventing users in one country buying music from a site […]

Advanced Technology Office has updated its iSee 360i Video Recorder, an iPod accessory that lets you record video content directly on an iPod for portable viewing. ATO also announced that it will offer bundled iSee-iPod packages in three different configurations ‚Äì 2GB nano, 4GB nano, and 30GB video. The second-generation iSee package now includes adapters […]

Wizzard Software, a software company that specializes in speech-recognition technology and also a podcast service provider, today announced record revenues for 2006, thanks in part to (we’re not making this up!) “Rex” – the talking pill bottle. Wizzard recorded record revenues of $2,943,578, an increase of $1,249,503, or approximately 73%, from revenues of $1,694,075 in […]

While EMI may be eliminating DRM, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has appears to be moving in the opposite direction, announcing its list of its top 25 schools for pirating movies….

Apple today announced that EMI Music‚Äôs entire digital catalog of music will be available for purchase DRM-free (without digital rights management) from the iTunes Store worldwide starting in May. DRM-free tracks from EMI will be offered at higher quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for $1.29 per song. In addition, iTunes customers will be able to […]

EMI Music, in a joint event with Apple, announced today that it is launching new premium downloads for retail on a global basis, making all of its digital repertoire available at a much higher sound quality than existing downloads and free of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions. Here are the slides from the announcement….

EMI Music, in a joint event with Apple, announced today that it is launching new premium downloads for retail on a global basis, making all of its digital repertoire available at a much higher sound quality than existing downloads and free of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions. The new higher quality DRM-free music will complement […]

EMI has announced (above) a special event with Apple to be held today in London. EMI Chief Executive Eric Nicoli will be joined by Apple Chief Executive and co-founder Steve Jobs to make a joint announcement. Whlie some are speculating that they will announce that the Beatles’s music will be available for the first time […]