Clint Boulton

Sony Music- and Vivendi Music-backed pressplay Wednesday became the latest music subscription service to open its Web site to the public. The business basically signals the official start of another Microsoft Corp. versus AOL Time Warner -RealNetworks Inc. rivalry as the software giant has chosen to use pressplay to gain Windows Media Player users as […]

Performing rights group Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), which recently won the right to secure royalty payments from radio stations who stream its content over the Internet, said Tuesday that it has penned long-term music licensing agreements covering MSN Music and Yahoo! Once payment and performance data is received, fees collected from the public performances on […]

The heated battle over whether or not broadcasters should pay royalties when they play their stations’ programming online, may soon be reaching a truce as music companies and radio firms apparently reached a tentative settlement last Friday. According to the Wall Street Journal, a document submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office said that the clashing […]

Call it the month of online music if you want to, because companies all over the country have been busy rolling out their music subscription services. If it’s at all possible to saturate the market in a month’s time, it will happen in this increasingly crowded sector as Yahoo! Inc. Monday launched its new music […]

Mountain View, Calif.’s VeriSign Inc. Friday bought certain technology assets of managed infrastructure services provider Telenisus Inc. for $5.8 million. VeriSign, in additon to being the leading domain name registrar, is a purveyor of digital trust certificates and services. The firm said it will use Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based Telenisus’ software to bolster its Consulting Services […]

Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM Corp. said its highly-touted “Regatta” p690 Unix eServer, which competes head to head with Sun Microsystems Inc.’s high-end “Starcat” Unix server (formally known as Sun fire 15K), shipped on schedule this week. With the roll out, Big Blue said popular clothing retailer Gap is using two p690s to power supply chain software […]

NEW YORK — Content drives commerce. It’s been the mantra du jour for the last couple of years, but the keynotes manning both Fall Internet World 2001 and Streaming media East 2001 in New York saw fit to reinforce the notion. From AOL’s Bob Pittman, to Compaq’s Michael D. Capellas, the idea that content type […]

Seattle’s RealNetworks Inc. scored a bit of a coup over rival Microsoft Corp. Wednesday when Houston’s Compaq Computer Corp. Wednesday pledged to ship its upcoming Presario PCs with the digital media company’s newfangled RealOne Player as the default product. Compaq will also push for customers to sign up as members of the RealNetworks’ subscription services, […]

NEW YORK — Microsoft Corp. Tuesday wasted little time making some noise at the Streaming Media East 2001 show when it demonstrated its new Windows Media platform, a product whose key striking feature is that it kills the “infamous buffer” snag that irks streaming media lovers. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant aired its new wares […]

Newly-bankrupt Luminant Worldwide Corp. — the high-tech consulting firm held up for mockery by a writer who posed as a junior project manager at the company’s New York City office and scribed a piece about his adventure for The New Yorker magazine — agreed to sell its assets to rival Lante Corp. Monday. Houston-based Luminant, […]

In a move to become slimmer, focus on system-level integration and pick up some cash in one, fell swoop, communications chipmaker Agere Systems Monday agreed to sell its field programmable gate array (FPGA) business to Lattice Semiconductor Corp. for $250 million in cash. Allentown, Pa.’s Agere will sell to Hillsboro, Ore.’s Lattice its ORCA FPGA […]

Fresh off of being delisted from the NASDAQ exchange at the beginning of the week, wireless service provider OmniSky Corp. said Friday that No. 2 Internet service provider EarthLink will scoop up its 32,000 subscribers and wireless infrastructure. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal is the latest is a series of battles being lost […]