Featured
Search
Latest Tweets
Recent
-
Nokia’s free music offer isn’t so free
Few music business people expect Nokia’s unlimited free music giveaway to be repeated, or even last very long. There simply aren’t enough large consumer companies prepared to take such an expensive gamble . And Nokia’s richest partners aren’t interested in helping out. But it’s a radical and interesting offering that merits some serious analysis: certainly,…
-
Songwriters pal with IT to counter the Google lobby
There’s a new lobby group in town – but unusually, this one unites traditional adversaries from tech, telecoms, and media companies. Backers include the American Songwriters Guild representing creators, Microsoft, Cisco, and AT&T, and media companies including Viacom and NBC. Everyone but Google, it seems. The launch in New York today was well attended by…
-
MySpace Music hears the antitrust song
News Corporation and the major record labels are facing antitrust questions about the blockbuster MySpace Music venture – even before the site has launched. MySpace Music is billed as the biggest music retail launch of the year. It’s a one-stop shop backed by the cross-media muscle of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, with the three biggest…
-
Peak oil: postponed
Oil supplies will actually last for far longer than our politicians think, the scaremongers fear, and the oil companies tell us. So says Dr Richard Pike, head of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and someone who isn’t afraid to stir controversy. Whither, then, Peak Oil?