John Townley

I-Jam Multimedia LLC and Microsoft Corp. Tuesday unveiled the new Win-Jam Digital Music Player, which exclusively supports the Microsoft Windows Media Format. The Win-Jam Digital Music Player is scheduled to be available in July for a suggested retail price of $129.99. The Win-Jam device’s installation CD will include the new Windows Media Player 7 for […]

Listen.com is expanding its offerings to include music videos and reviews to its directory of downloadable music of more than 60,000 artists. The company said Tuesday that it has signed deals with eleven international music Web sites to facilitate the expansion. Listen.com has entered into deals with LAUNCH.com, RollingStone.com and Vidnet.com to expedite the inclusion […]

AppStream Inc. Monday unveiled a new technology enabling application service providers (ASPs), e-commerce sites and enterprises to break apart dynamic content and applications and deliver them to end-users in a personlized, on-demand basis. AppStream said the technology will accelerate and simplify hosting, management and deployment of rich applications at the edge of a network. The […]

Apple Computer Inc. announced Friday that its video editing software is now available as a free download for PowerBook and Power Mac G4 users. The Apple (AAPL) product, iMovie, comes preinstalled on all iMac DV and iMac DV Special Edition systems. The download is available at the Apple iMovie web site. With the software product, […]

Content delivery company SightPath, which was recently acquired by Cisco Systems (CSCO) for $800 million, is launching a rich media content delivery solution designed for European Network Service Providers (NSPs), Internet backbone carriers and Web hosting providers. The SightPath i.Director solution enables service providers to build their own scaleable content delivery networks, capable of providing […]

A strategic alliance Wednesday has opened the doors for users of Internet music software developer Earjam.com to access legally available music from more than 1,000 Websites through partner Listen.com. Terms of the deal were not available. Sean Ryan, vice president of business development for Listen.com, said the co-branded site would allow Earjam users to find […]

Sonic Solutions Thursday introduced iMaster, which enables professional audio engineers to master for CD-Audio and DVD-Audio production and simultaneously compress the results for audio over the internet. Masters produced by Sonic iMaster are compatible with SMDI compliant DRM (Digital Rights Management) systems. iMaster lets users create a master from a new recording and allows them […]

FastForward Networks Monday secured $30 million in a mezzanine round of funding. FastForward will use the money to build out its organization to meet the needs of the content distribution marketplace, and to move its networking platform for Internet broadcasting service providers from industry trials and limited deployments to volume production. The investment round was […]

MP3.com Inc. late Thursday night acquired a majority position in mp3radio.com from its joint venture partner, Cox Interactive Media (CIMedia). Financial details were not disclosed. Cox Radio will maintain its 28 mp3radio.com affiliate sites and Cox Interactive Media also expects to offer localized music information and free music downloads across its network of city sites. […]

RioPort Inc. Wednesday launched version 3 of its RioPort Audio Manager software. The new jukebox software features audio and video playback capabilities for downloadable or streaming content, the ability to create custom CDs for playback of music and spoken word content on home or car CD players, the ability to manage and download to portable […]

Sonicbox Inc. Tuesday released its iM Software Tuner, giving Internet users easy access to streaming radio stations. “Sonicbox was founded to make listening to ‘best of planet’ Internet radio as simple as possible, said Niko Bolas, President and CEO of Sonicbox Inc. “The iM Software Tuner is our first step toward listeners being able to […]

The telephone results of the first official run of the Pan European Internet Monitor by Pro Active International show that the Internet usage in Europe is growing rapidly, but that there are large differences between the different countries in North, West and Southern Europe. Thirty-four percent (107.8 million) of the European population of 15 years […]