Penny-size 180 Gigabits CDROMs -July 30, 1999 -Slashdot
Princeton University electrical engineer Stephen Chou who directs the NanoStructures Laboratory, has created CDs that can concentrate data
800 times more efficiently than current discs.
Samsung Enters MP3 Fray-July 30, 1999
-Wired
Samsung plans to enter the MP3 market with "Yepp." The new digital
player is slated to debut in September, but Rio Port makers seem unconcerned.
Office 97 hole can allow code to take over
-July 30, 1999 -CNET
A security hole found in Microsoft's Office 97 application suite can allow
malicious code to take over a user's PC without their knowledge, Microsoft has confirmed.
MP3.com Reports Second Quarter Operating Results-July
29, 1999 -Yahoo
MP3.com today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 1999.
Revenues increased to $1.9 million compared to revenues of $247,000 during the comparable
quarter one year ago.
MP3 device makers wary of music standards-July 29,
1999 -CNET
Now that a specification to prevent the proliferation of illegal digital
music has finally been adopted, the question remains: Which device
makers will support it?
Toshiba
plans MP3 player -July 28, 1999 -Yahoo
Toshiba this year will start selling a portable device to play music downloaded
from the Internet, marking the electronics company's return to the audio market
amid expectations that online music distribution is set to boom.
Digital Music Revolution Begins -July 26, 1999 -Yahoo
It's been called a major revolution in the history of the music business, liberating
artists to deliver their music directly to listeners and terrifying record company
executives. But questions are arising over whether digital distribution of music
over the Internet will live up to all its hype.
Digital music distribution's coming of age -August
1999 Issue -The Computer Paper
Somewhere over at the major record labels, you can hear record executives' knees
knocking together in fear as the age of digital music distribution dawns.
MP3: the birth of a new music biz? -August 1999 Issue
-The Computer Paper
In the year since the MP3 audio file format appeared, it has simultaneously been called the best thing and the worst thing to
happen to the music business.
Germany's Grundig launches MP3
player-July 20, 1999 -CNN
German electronics company Grundig AG jumped into the digital-music market,
with the launch last week of its MP3-Player MPaxx.-we'll post info as soon as
it is available
MP3.com IPO brings the noise -July 22, 1999 -Redherring.com
MP3.com (Nasdaq:MPPP) made some noise with its market debut Wednesday, and you could hear the volume a block away.
Encoding.com
ripe for download business -July 22, 1999 -CNET
As music companies large and small begin to turn to the Web as a distribution medium, the question arises: Who is going to encode all
that music so it can be downloaded or streamed online?
MP3.com
crescendos in trading debut -July 21, 1999 -CNET
MP3.com flew out of the starting gate today, with its stock jumping more than 189
percent.
MP3.com
IPO prices at top of range-July 20, 1999 -CNET
MP3.com is making noise, pricing its initial public offering at $28 per share,
the top of its just-upped range.
EMI to Sell CDs on Demand -July 20, 1999 -Wired
Coming to a music store near you: kiosks that download tunes and spit out freshly minted CDs at your request
The Broadband Wars
-July 20, 1999 -Slashdot
Like it or not, the FCC and other government agencies make decisions every day that affect the way the Internet works.Don Weightman
is a Washington, DC attorney who is currently in the middle of the ongoing
regulatory dispute over who controls the "last mile" of online access in the
USA. Don's strong words make it unlawyerly obvious which side he's on, but the only
disclaimer he asked us to add was, "The following opinions are mine and not my
clients'."
Record Stores Keep
on Spinning -July 20, 1999 -Wired
What will music distributors do when consumers get all their music off the Net?
Plenty, they say, but don't hold your breath until then.
Exec:
Net music a boon for major labels -July 19, 1999 -CNET
Internet technology will benefit the major record companies tremendously
in the next ten years as more consumers turn to the Web to buy and listen to
music, Strauss Zelnick, head of entertainment giant Bertelsmann's North America
division, said today.
CDnow
stocks up on digital downloads -July 19, 1999 -CNET
CDnow's digital downloads store will debut with some 10,000 songs when it
opens this fall, the company said in an interview today.
Defensive Stance on MP3 Distracts Industry from Potential of
Digital
Distribution Profits -July 19, 1999 -Jupiter
Communications
fter more than a year of turmoil surrounding digital distribution, music
industry players must adopt a less defensive tack, using digital distribution
aggressively as a tool to market and sell music, according to new research
by Jupiter Communications.
Old Guard
Pshaws Digital Music -July 19, 1999 -Wired
The Net is a great distribution channel -- but it won't kill CDs and cassettes, says the chief of big-five record label BMG. Get with it,
say Net music mavens.
Personal Digital Audio Players Will See Over 80% Unit Growth
From 1999 to 2003 -July 19, 1999 -Businesswire.com
Spurred by widespread Internet access, the market for personal digital music
players utilizing audio compression technologies will experience a tremendous
increase in growth, with nearly $800 million in sales in 2003, according to
Cahners In-Stat Group, a high-tech market research firm. While products in
this segment will initially focus on downloading technologies like MP3, over
the next 12 months consumers should expect to see more features integrated
into the players, such as FM tuners, increased storage capacity and security
mechanisms like Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) compatibility.
Research:
MP3s Sell CDs -July 19, 1999 -Wired
Jupiter kicks off its digital music forum by admonishing labels to stop dreading online music -- and start using it as a sales tool for CDs and tapes
Musicians net stock in themselves -July 18, 1999 -CNET
Artistdirect Network has signed a deal with 45 music artists, giving everyone
from the Backstreet Boys to the Rolling Stones a combined total of better than
10 percent in the music retailer through stock options, in return for the rights
to sell their wares.
The MP3 Revolution: Getting With It -July 18, 1999 -NYTimes
Just a year ago, writing an article about MP3 meant going into elaborate detail in defining the technology. At that time, the term --
shorthand for the 1992 formula used to compress audio into manageable, easy-to-share computer files -- had been mentioned in only four articles
in this newspaper; since then, it has been mentioned in more than 85,
becoming a part of the entertainment vocabulary almost as quickly as the
name Lewinsky became part of the political one. ( Free registration required )
Digital rights and wrongs -July 17, 1999
-Economist.com
INTELLECTUAL-PROPERTY law “cannot be patched, retrofitted or expanded to contain digitisedexpression,” wrote John Perry Barlow, co-founder
of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an online lobbying group, in an influential
essay. “Digital technology is detaching information from the physical plane,
where property law of all sorts has always found definition...The bottle was
protected, not the wine.”
Feature
Product Review: MP3's New "Mac" Daddy -July 16,1999 -MP3.com
Anyone who uses a Mac will likely tell you that they feel somewhat left
behind in the MP3 revolution. While a wide range of MP3 playing and encoding software exists for the Windows platform, a true full-featured
MP3 player/encoder for Mac OS has been sorely lacking. Until now.
Net
music gets louder next week -July 16, 1999 -CNET
Players in the Net music space are gathering for Jupiter Communications'
Plug-In conference in New York, which begins Monday, just as the market gets ready for the much-anticipated MP3.com initial public offering, expected next week.
MP3.com, Be to Go IPO Next Week -July 16, 1999 -Wired
At least 17 tech companies are scheduled to go public next week, including
such high-profile outfits as Gadzoox Networks, MP3.com, and Be Inc, and nearly all of them are expected to do well.
Net Bands
To Vie for Shelf Space -July 16, 1999 -Wired
Freed of radio station managers and fussy record label execs, Net musicians enjoy a distribution free-for-all. But a new retail kiosk program
may change that.
Virgin To Burn Net Music CDs-July 16, 1999 -Wired
Virgin Megastores launch a kiosk service to let customers walk out of the
store with a CD full of Internet music.
EMusic.com & Yahoo! to
Host Exclusive Web-Launch of 'They Might Be Giants' New MP3-Only Album -July 15, 1999 -Yahoo
On July 19, EMusic.com Inc., one of the Internet's leading sellers of downloadable music, and Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet media
company, will host the Web launch of They Might Be Giants' Long Tall Weekend,
the first album from a major artist to be released exclusively in the MP3 format.
Audiohighway:
We Own Net Music -July 14, 1999 -Wired
It's nice to own an industry. Especially the budding portable digital music player industry.
*Audiohighway
patents digital audio player -July 14, 1999 -CNET
CUPERTINO, California--Audiohighway.com, which transmits music, books, news, and other information over the Internet, said it was awarded a
patent for its portable digital audio player.
Wireless 10
gigabits/sec data transfer -July 14, 1999 -Slashdot
<-- great geek news
Lucent Technologies announced a breakthrough technology that eventually will enable business customers and service providers to transmit up to
10 gigabits per second (Gb/s) of information between locations through the air.
SDMI
Spec Restricts CD Copying -July 14, 1999 -Wired
The new spec designed to control digital music piracy wasn't supposed to
apply to existing CDs. But one such scheme made its way into the final version, anyway.
CDNow, Columbia House Will Merge -July 13, 1999 -Techweb
Online music vendor CDNow announced Tuesday that it will merge with
mail-ordermusic club Columbia House. Sony and Time Warner, co-owners of Columbia House, will each own 37 percent on the new company. CDNow
stockholders will hold the other 26 percent.
MP3.com: A billion-dollar business?-July 13, 1999 -Salon.com
Wondering just how hot the MP3 market is today? Look no further than the upcoming IPO for MP3.com, the portal site for the digital music community.
Webcast fee talks headed for stalemate -July 13, 1999 -CNET
A new fee Webcasters must pay record companies to play their recordings appears to be headed to arbitration, signaling that the controversial issue is
likely to remain unresolved for at least another six months.
Group pushes one tune for Net music -July 13, 1999 -CNET
Will online music submit to the same growing pains as the Internet at large?
A standards body thinks so, although it may be tough convincing the MP3 hordes.
Punk Label Takes MP3 Plunge -July 13, 1999 -Wired
In a significant step, EMusic strikes a deal with punk label Epitaph to sell selected MP3 cuts by acts ranging from Offspring to Bad Religionto Tom Waits.
Here Comes SDMI, Ready
or Not -July 13, 1999 -Wired
After some last-minute delays, the music industry's controversial answer to digital music is having its long-awaited debut
One inch no cinch for IBM storage gurus -July 12, 1999 -TechWeb
When two IBM designers started tinkering around in a motor-research project five years ago, they weren't planning to create a new form factor
around 1-inch disks. After all, the industry hadn't embraced a smaller disk-drive format in more than a decade.
MP3.com Raises IPO Goals -July 12, 1999 -Wired
MP3.com substantially upped the ante on the amount of money it plans to rake in with its upcoming initial public offering.
MP3.com
increases size and price of IPO -July 12, 1999 -Yahoo
(Reuters) - Internet music distributor MP3.com Inc.said Monday it had raised
the size and estimated price of its initial public stock offering.
Secure Downloads for Films -July 12, 1999 -Wired
Two companies said Monday they will team up to help studios keep their films from being illegally distributed over the Net.
Listen To The Band -July, 1999 issue -Entrepreneur
Magazine
Implementing nontraditional methods and best-practice business decisions, the Grateful Dead has had a remarkable 30-year run as a
rock icon. Follow their lead, and keep your business truckin'.
CDnow Offers Microsoft-Secured Music Tracks -July 11, 1999 -Yahoo
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online music company CDnow said Friday it is offering digital music from a top music label for the first time, with music
from four Atlantic Records artists available for free at the site and encoded
using Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Windows Media Audio format.
The Empire Strikes Back -July 9, 1999 -Slashdot.org
<-- support these buggers ;)
The music industry claims to be re-taking control of the
distribution of digital music, after battering by MP3's, rogue bands selling music directly
on the Net, the posting of of music files online and on-line audio sites with
vast archives and libraries.
Don't bet on it.
Record Industry Launches a First Strike -July 9, 1999 -Industry
Standard
On Friday, the record industry's first strike against digital piracy will take
place online.
Liquid Audio Stock Triples -July 9, 1999 -Wired
12:15 p.m. The digital music company makes an impressive debut on the stock market. No matter that its technology isn't as popular as MP3.
Digital music is just too sexy for investors to pass up.
RARE MEDIUM GROUP LAUNCHES THE CHANGEMUSIC.COM
NETWORK -press release
The ChangeMusic.com Network intends to revolutionize the way music is made, promoted, distributed, and
consumed. It incorporates the already completed acquisitions of MP3place.com and MP3now.com
as well as two new purchases, MP3park.com and Findsongs.com.
SDMI
on SDMI: A Better MP3? -July 8, 1999 -Wired
SDMI executive director Leonardo Chiariglione defends the standard
and explains how the music industry's initiative has been misunderstood.
And privacy? That's not SDMI's problem.
MailZone's
New MP3 Monitor -July 8, 1999 -Wired
New software can block MP3 file attachments in corporate email and tell the difference between legal and illegal music files. Skeptics abound.
Amazon
faces new threats in music July 7, 1999 -CNET
Barnesandnoble.com's opening today of a new online music store represents the latest industry-wide move to put heat on market leader
Amazon.com--and could result in a price war, analysts say.
Digital
Music: No Time Soon -July 7, 1999 -Wired
When will most folks get their music online rather than on disc?
Revolution
In Music Marketing -July 6, 1999 -CBS.com
The band Red Delicious hasn't had a hit but they've caught the ear of the recording industry. Not their music, their marketing.
Internet music firms set
to try luck in IPO market -July 6, 1999 -Reuteurs
NEW YORK, July 6 (Reuters) - Internet music firms Liquid Audio and MP3.com Inc.and Internet music retailer
musicmaker.com Inc. are rushing to claim their
place on the relatively untouched digital music frontier with initial public offerings.
Life, Liberty
and MP3 - July 5, 1999 -ABCNews.com
Announcement of a new encryption standard by the Secure Digital Music Initiative
(SDMI) seems to have also ensured that the free MP3 music standard will remain in force.
Can't
Stop The Music - July 5, 1999 -Upside.com
The timing could have been better. Late last month, a consortium of major
players in the recording and technology industries announced...
Yahoo
may join MP3 player fray - July 1, 1999 -CNET
Sources say talks between Sonique and Yahoo in the works.
The portal is seriously considering a foray into the Internet music player business, joining Net giants such
as America Online in the booming market, sources say.
Securing Digital Ditties - July 1, 1999 -Wired
Liquid Audio and Iomega have teamed up for a digital-music download
system that complies with the Secure Digital Music Initiative's recently
announced specification.
