The RIAA is increasing the pressure it puts on colleges and universities to restrict activities on school networks, sending thousands more complaints to top universities this school year than it did last year. A few schools, including Ohio and Purdue universities, already have received more than 1,000 complaints accusing individual students since last fall. For […]

Toronto, ON-based digital music store Puretracks has announced that it will sell a full catalog of MP3 music files for purchase and download, free of Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions. The new DRM-free MP3 catalogue will initially feature 50,000 titles from a number of major independent labels, priced from $0.79 cents per song. Additional tracks […]

Viacom has announced that it will be a content partner and will offer its full range of brands and programming for free to consumers via Joost. Joost is a new Internet video site, now in beta, designed to provide interactive video content while providing copyright protection. Under the agreement, Viacom’s divisions – MTV Networks, BET […]

Cisco and Apple today announced that they have resolved their dispute involving the ‚ÄúiPhone‚Äù trademark. Under the agreement, both companies are free to use the ‚ÄúiPhone‚Äù trademark on their products throughout the world. Both companies acknowledge the trademark ownership rights that have been granted, and each side will dismiss any pending actions regarding the trademark. […]

Podtrac today announced the Podtrac Media Planner, a new online service designed to demistify advertising in podcasts and serial video clips by helping advertisers learn about audio and video podcasts, view demographics and reach, and sample more than 4000 audio and video podcasts. According to Podtrac, the serial nature of audio and video podcasts provide […]

Life Fitness announced this week that it plans to offer commercial exercise equipment with seamless iPod integration. This connectivity makes it possible for iPod users to plug in and charge their iPods, watch video on the equipment‚Äôs large LCD screen and control the playing of their iPod music libraries from the console. The first Life […]

The recordings of a British concert pianist who found fame in the last years of her life have been exposed as hoaxes – by Apple’s iTunes music player. Joyce Hatto, who died in June 2006, has become a cause c√©l√®bre with fans of classical piano. A series of recordings appeared to show her masterful command […]

Odeo, a podcasting community that was one of the darlings of early podcasting coverage in the mainstream media, is looking for a buyer: In the last few months, we here at Obvious have been increasingly focused on Twitter. As a result, our original product, Odeo, has not gotten the attention it deserves. It does not […]

Sirius Satellite Radio plans to buy U.S. rival XM Satellite Radio for $4.6 billion in stock, which could allow the combined company to raise prices, reduce costs and become profitable. The move will bring Oprah Winfrey, singer Bob Dylan, Major League Baseball, motivational guru Deepak Chopra and shock-jock Howard Stern under one roof. Under the […]

It looks like the music industry has figured out a new way to anger music lovers. Suretone Records, a label distributed by the Universal Music Group, plans to start distributing free video files featuring popular acts like Weezer and new bands like Drop Dead Gorgeous on file-sharing networks. The music videos will not be wrapped […]