Labels OK DRM-Free ITunes Tracks
Posted by Wendy Davis on Jan 6, 4:30 PM
In a long overdue move, all the major record labels have agreed to allow Apple to sell tracks without the much-maligned DRM software that limits consumers' ability to transfer music.
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Facebook Looks To Control User Data
Posted by Wendy Davis on Jan 5, 3:45 PM
As Facebook traffic climbs to new heights, the site also is taking steps to keep control over its most valuable asset -- users' data. The company has taken its beef with aggregator Power.com into federal court, where Facebook has sued for a host of claims. Power.com allows users to access information from across social networking sites in one central location -- an ability that Facebook clearly thinks threatens its own hold on the information that users have uploaded to their profiles.
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Broadband Era Sparks Cable/Content Conflicts
Posted by Wendy Davis on Jan 2, 4:04 PM
Time Warner Cable and Viacom may have reached a tentative agreement this week but, in the long run, battles between network operators and content companies are bound to intensify as content migrates online.
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Social Nets Disable Project Playlist Widget
Posted by Wendy Davis on Dec 24, 3:41 PM
Facing the threat of litigation, Facebook has joined MySpace in disabling Project Playlist's popular widget, which lets users search for tracks and create digital mixtapes.
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Net Neutrality Endangers Lives? Seriously?
Posted by Wendy Davis on Dec 23, 5:00 PM
There's been a lot of arguments for and against net neutrality, but a new report commissioned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ratchets up the rhetoric by claiming that neutrality laws would, literally, endanger people's lives. "Consumers would be negatively impacted by efforts to restrict network management," the report states. "In the long-term, such policies could impair the effectiveness of lifesaving telemedicine and other applications that ride the network and require connections that are jitter-free."
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Record Companies Tussle With YouTube, Project Playlist
Posted by Wendy Davis on Dec 22, 4:56 PM
The major record labels seem to have renewed their campaign to assert authority over where their music is streamed online.
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RIAA Enlists ISPs To Police File-Sharing
Posted by Wendy Davis on Dec 19, 2:02 PM
Here's the good news. After instituting proceedings against more than 30,000 music fans since 2003, the RIAA has decided it will no longer file lawsuits against individual Web users. But here's the bad news. The RIAA is forging deals with Internet service providers to target alleged file-sharers without going to court.
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More Upheaval At Phorm
Posted by Wendy Davis on Dec 18, 5:30 PM
On the heels of the departure of its four U.S. board members, controversial behavioral targeting company Phorm faces yet more upheaval. The company, which has consistently said it intends to enter the U.S. market, is now losing its U.K. chief executive, Hugo Drayton, as well as U.K. chief financial officer Lynne Millar.
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Yahoo's Anonymizing Attempt Falls Flat
Posted by Wendy Davis on Dec 17, 4:34 PM
In an attempt to quell some of its most adamant critics, Yahoo today said it would "anonymize" most data about users, including information tying their search histories to their IP addresses, after 90 days. In a conference call with reporters, Yahoo privacy head Anne Toth said the company hopes to bring "closure" to controversy surrounding the company's retention of data about users. If that's Yahoo's goal, the company will be disappointed. While some privacy advocates are cheering the company's decision, significant questions remain.
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Digital Rights Group Presses FCC To Rule Against Mobile Censorship
Posted by Wendy Davis on Dec 16, 5:31 PM
Digital rights group Public Knowledge is pressing the Federal Communications Commission to rule that telecoms can't discriminate when bestowing short codes for text messages any more than they can decide which phone calls to put through.
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