StreamingMedia.com on Monday announced the publication of two new reports that suggest that Apple’s QuickTime H.264 video encoding has gained ground on Microsoft Windows Media. The winner, however, was RealVideo. Link
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Apple’s iTunes store recently sold their one billionth song. This website has a plotted graph showing how quickly they were sold in just under three years, and the growth they have had particulary in the last six months. Link
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Yahoo Music chief Dave Goldberg raised eyebrows Thursday at the Music 2.0 conference in Los Angeles with a proposal rarely heard from executives at large digital music services: Record labels should try selling music online without copy protection. Link
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It may well have been the best 99 cents Alex Ostrovsky ever spent.
Early yesterday, he paid that amount to download “Speed of Sound,” a song on the Coldplay album “X&Y,” from the iTunes Music Store, the Internet music shop that Apple Computer started less than three years ago.
He did not know it, but it was the billionth song the site had sold, and Apple was not about to let that go unnoticed
Read the interview here
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APPLE, whose iTunes internet music site sold its billionth tune last week, is preparing to launch a film download service. An announcement is expected as early as this week.
The news will represent another move in Apple’s strategy to network computing and entertainment products around the home so music and video can be wirelessly streamed from one device to another. Link
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A macworld article is reporting that next week’s ’special announcement’ by Apple will be for the launch of the itunes movie store, where users will be able to download full length feature films. This is reported while the other rumour is that the announcement will be of the real video ipod. Link
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Apple’s iTunes store have sold their one billionth song, ending their huge campaign. The person who purchased the billionth song received a 20 inch mac, 10 60gig ipods and a US$10,000 itunes music card. Whoever downloaded every 100,000th song received a 4 gig nano and $100 music card.
And this would end all of the hype around this. It won’t take long till they hit 1.5 billion. I wonder if they will get to 1 trillion. Link
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US government officials are considering introducing legislation if companies continue to distribute copy-protection measures that compromise computer security. The Department of Homeland Security’s Border and Transportation Security Directorate warning followed the discovery last year that Sony BMG employed two different types of digital rights management (DRM) on music CDS sold in the US and both installed rootkit software on PCs that made them vulnerable. Link
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“Selling an iPod preloaded with music is no different than selling a DVD onto which you have burned your entire music collection,” the RIAA said in a statement to MTV.com. “Either act is a clear violation of U.S. copyright law. The RIAA is monitoring this means of infringement. In short: seller beware.” Many people have been selling their used iPods online with thousands of songs preloaded on them. Link
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The 2006 winter Olympics in Turin are being preported like never before, via podcasts, blogs, video, animation and satellite images of the event locations, giving viewers a more intimate look at the events and athletes’ lives than they’ve ever had. Yahoo and NBC have invested heavily into their Olympics coverage, for the millions of users that are turning to the web for up to date coverage. Link
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