John Townley

MP3.com’s settlement with two of the five major record labels that brought forth copy-infringment suits last January bode well for its stock trading Friday. Shares for the online music provider shot up to 35 percent, or $6, to 23 1/4 in pre-opening trading. Financial terms of the settlement have not been disclosed. However, Reuters reported […]

SRSWOWcast.com Inc., the Internet entertainment subsidiary of SRS Labs Inc., Thursday announced that it has selected Akamai Technologies Inc. as its media delivery services provider. Akamai will be responsible for the streaming music and entertainment content of the Web site, which is scheduled to launch in July. Upon its launch, the site will combine stereo […]

Torveo Technologies Wednesday unveiled Opus 2.0, a Web-based suite of products for creation and display of rich media. Opus 2.0 consists of rich media authoring tool Opus Studio and Opus Player, for viewing rich media without a plug-in. Opus Studio has three elements: Opus Composer handles rich media creation, Opus Painter adds image editing, and […]

Business-to-business digital media service and technology provider Amplified Holdings Inc. Tuesday signed an agreement with Preview Systems to use its digital goods e-commerce platform as a preferred technology for the digital distribution of music. Preview Systems will be one of Amplified’s partners in integrating digital rights management to their network of online retail affiliates. Wayne […]

StreamSearch and House of Blues Digital Inc. (HOB) have formed an alliance. Through this agreement, StreamSearch provides direct access to all live and on-demand content from HOB.com, including cybercasts, archived music and interviews, downloadable audio and video live tracks, Internet radio, artist profiles and CD reviews. Additionally, the companies will share revenue related to the […]

nCUBE Corporation, a supplier of interactive multimedia servers, and WorldGate Communications Inc., a service and technology company, Friday launched a joint effort to enhance interactive advertising. The service will utilize WorldGate’s Internet on EVERY TV Service, which enables cable subscribers to access the Internet, e-mail and other interactive services through their television and existing cable […]

Gigabeat Inc. Thursday unveiled a new online music gateway that enables fans to find, sample, play and purchase any music available on the Web. Using a patent-pending “find-and-discover” search technology — specifically designed for music — Gigabeat delivers music and content through links to commerce sites and radio stations. Also, Gigabeat’s GigaSpiral visual discovery tool […]

MP3.com Inc. Thursday launched its Instant Music Program to deliver free, full-length digital CDs to 500,000 registered My.MP3.com users. For a limited time, MP3.com will distribute 10 free Net CDs from leading digital artists to each of its 500,000 registered My.MP3.com users, as well as new visitors who register for a free account. Members can […]

eSynch Corp.‘s wholly-owned subsidiary, Oxford Media Corp. Tuesday signed an agreement to provide encoding and authoring solutions for Cinram International Inc. . The agreement will allow both companies to provide their customers with comprehensive turnkey solutions. “In addition to producing digitally encoded CDs or DVDs, Cinram has the technological capacity to fulfill mass quantity requirements […]

Beatnik Inc. Thursday announced that it has received $30 million in Q1 2000 funding from a group of technology, content and service companies. Investors include Pacific Century CyberWorks, Media 100, Space Shower, Sun Microsystems Inc. and The MTVi Group. “Strategic investments from these key firms will be used to support Beatnik’s implementation of a technology […]

EMusic.com Thursday started giving away free 32MB Creative Labs NOMAD II portable digital audio hardware players. The giveaway is a promotion available to customers that purchase $50 worth of downloadable music from the company. The players are valued at $229.99 each. The NOMAD II 32MB plays MP3s and provides up to one hour of stereo […]

Eastman Kodak Company has licensed Apple’s QuickTime for use in developing digital cameras. The agreement allows Kodak to build and sell digital cameras that let users create video clips in the cross-platform QuickTime. According to Philip Schiller, Apple’s vice president of worldwide product marketing, more than 50 million copies of the QuickTime 4 player have […]