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DIGITAL ASSETS REASSEMBLED FOR BETTER USE A FEW YEARS BACK, CNN EXECUTIVES MET TO DISCUSS THE future of many thousands of hours of archived video footage capturing some of the […]

ISP, CONTENT OWNERS CLASH POLICING COPYRIGHTS BECAUSE OF AN AMBIGUITY IN A 1998 COPYRIGHT law, Internet service providers are at loggerheads with copyright owners over the extent to which they […]

IMPROVING THE WEB, TWO BITS AT A TIME WHEN A PIECE OF E-MAIL WHIZZES ACROSS THE INTERNET, IT DOESN'T TRAVEL in one piece; it is broken into a bunch of […]

When it comes to promoting optical networking technology, companies -- and the writers who report on them -- just can't resist tossing in references to the speed of light. Do […]

A HIGH-STAKES BATTLE OVER A KEY technology for managing the distribution of digital content has been launched, and the first volley is InterTrust Technologies' lawsuit against Microsoft for patent infringement. […]

CHAINCAST'S CHEAPER STREAMING JOINING THE FRENZY FOR ALL THINGS peer-to-peer, ChainCast Networks officially unveiled its streaming technology last week at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas. ChainCast's […]

NEW PROTOCOL MAKES MULTICASTING EASIER AS BANDWIDTH-HOGGING MULTIMEDIA TRAFFIC SWARMS over the Internet, multicast -- a technology designed to reduce Internet congestion -- is undergoing a transformation that will make […]

MPEG-4 GAINS SUPPORT AS ALTERNATIVE TO PROPRIETARY FORMATS WHEN REALNETWORKS ANNOUNCED EARLIER THIS MONTH that it was starting MusicNet, a music subscription service, as a joint venture with three major […]

START-UP DIGITAL FOUNTAIN TODAY WILL introduce its first products: servers enabling efficient distribution of rich content, such as multimedia, over the Internet. In addition to selling its servers directly, the […]

WHILE THE BIG RECORD LABELS AND LEADing online companies strike nearly a deal per day for e-music delivery services, traditional CD retailers suspect they're getting purposely cut out of the […]

PRINT-ON-DEMAND COULD BE PUBLISHING'S FUTURE A FEW YEARS BACK, E-BOOKS LOOKED AS THOUGH THEY WOULD TAKE THE market by storm. The grand promise was that the low cost of publishing […]

INTERNET BROADCASTER RADIO FREE VIRGIN plans to announce today that its users can now click on a record button to save copies of songs onto their computers. Radio Free Virgin […]

ENTERTAINMENT AND ELECTRONICS DIVISIONS CLASH SONY CORP. OF AMERICA IS STUMBLING over its own big feet. The media behemoth is the umbrella for both Sony Music Entertainment and Sony Electronics […]

PREVIOUSLY STATIC PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT FILES ARE FINDING A NEW ROLE on the Internet. An electronic forms suite announced last week by Cardiff Software enables users to fill out, sign, […]

WHILE OBSERVERS WERE QUICK TO PREDICT the demise of Napster after last week's preliminary injunction, the terms could have been a lot worse for the music swapping service. Unlike the […]

NAPSTER USERS OVER THE WEEKEND MAY have found themselves unable to trade music, as the service began blocking access to thousands of copyrighted songs. After a court hearing in San […]

NAPSTER RULING FELT ELSEWHERE THIS MONTH'S ANTI-NAPSTER APPELLATE court ruling struck a sour note for many businesses interested in new technologies. The legal precedent will affect the ability of consumer […]

Record giants hold the licensing baton THE MUSIC LOVER'S DREAM OF A DIGITAL 'CELESTIAL JUKEBOX' HAS turned into an entrepreneur's nightmare, and critics maintain major record companies are to blame. […]

CRITICISM SURROUNDS SDMI'S SECURITY CHALLENGE A HACKING CHALLENGE, SPONSORED BY THE MUSIC RECORDING INDUSTRY, IS DRAWING fire from academic researchers who feel the ballyhooed contest was as much a public […]

GRACENOTE SPINS BEYOND CDs SLIP YOUR FAVORITE CD INTO YOUR COMPUTER. If your CD software works like most, it will almost instantly display the title and artist of the CD, […]

WHY SECURE DIGITAL MEDIA FLUNKS THE VENDORS OF DIGITAL RIGHTS MANagement technology have been taught an old and painful lesson: The customer is always right. In the pre-Napster era, digital […]

REALNETWORKS UPGRADES STREAMING MEDIA SOFTWARE REALNETWORKS WILL RELEASE A NEW VERSION OF ITS STREAMING MEDIA SOFTWARE this week that represents a substantial departure from earlier versions of the infrastructure software […]

MP3.COM'S LICENSING DEALS SET COSTLY PRECEDENT IN THE WAKE OF MP3.-com's costly legal battles with the recording and publishing industries, Internet music companies are saying they, too, are paying a […]

WHILE STREAMING VIDEO IS BECOMING A FUNDAMENTAL component of media sites, encoding it and distributing it can be awkward, to say the least. Start-up Telestream, near Nevada City, Calif., hopes […]

New paradigms for computing and data security JONATHAN DOWLING KNEW HIS RESEARCH WAS INTERESTING. HE JUST DIDN'T REALIZE how interesting until government intelligence officials tracked him down. The call came […]

AT FIRST GLANCE, IT SEEMS LIKE THE ONLINE ENTERTAINment industry should be dancing in the streets. Napster, with its phenomenal base of 38 million users, has demonstrated to one and […]