"We're going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device," said Steve Jobs in his keynote address at Apple's WWDC today. "We're going to move your hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud."READ»
Which metric best captures Lady Gaga's global superstardom: the 15 million albums she's sold to date, or the billion views she reached this week on YouTube? READ»
Apple negotiated with Facebook for more than 18 months to launch Ping, its new social network. How much heads up did they give to record labels? Absolutely none.READ»
A nice pair--of porn companies, that is--is being sued by the music industry for featuring songs in their XXX-rated clips without permission. The copyright infringement suit was filed at the U.S. District Court in L.A. last week, ...READ»
The oil spill is killing me. My suitcase is killing me. But mostly it's Robyn's interactive twideo that's killing Twitter users. The firm behind it is Blip Boutique, an L.A.-based collective led by James Frost--the guy behind ...READ»
The slow death of physical media may be even slower than expected, if UMG's new pricing structure takes off: CDs will actually be priced lower than their digital versions.READ»
How many times does a band have to take the music video world by storm before its record label gets that its members might know a little something about music videos? We may never find out, because OK Go, the band in question, has ...READ»
There's an intriguing rumor ahead of today's Apple keynote at Macworld: The company has successfully negotiated with the major record labels to drop DRM copy protection from all tracks in iTunes. And, as a major bonus, it's likely to ...READ»
The Washington Post recently carried an article about Pandora's struggle to stay alive. The article raises some serious questions about the people running record labels.
Giant of Internet Radio Nears Its 'Last ...READ»
According to indie rocker Jill Sobule, there's only one thing record labels are still good for and that’s financing albums. Everyone is preoccupied over which music-distribution model will win out, but the fallout of the Internet's ...READ»
