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- RIAA sues Project Playlist
- Is Project Playlist legal? The site allows users to build playlists of music found on other websites whether they got there legally or not the site claims disinterest and then streams them to listeners. They pay the relevant performance royalties. A WikiAnswer claims, "It is 100%...
- Tags: Performance, RIAA, Music, Music File, Performance Management, Web Site Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Subscription iTunes? It can't come soon enough
- Apple may be finally getting a clue about music subscriptions. We can only hope that Apple gets on the subscription bandwagon. The Financial Times reports: Apple is in discussions with the big music companies about a radical new business model that would give customers free access...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- RIAA willing to take its lumps in filesharing fight
- News.com's Greg Sandoval took a look at the filesharing case against Jammie Thomas from the perspective of the RIAA. Sandoval points out that nothing makes a huge dinosaur industry look worse than slapping a Native American woman making $36,000 with a $200,000 fine for making 24 songs available online, quite...
- Tags: Record Company, RIAA, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Zunes November 13: 80 GB model's specs here
- As Gizmodo first noticed and colleague Greg Sandoval of Crave articulates, pre-ordering the new line of Zunes on Amazon.com pulls up pages that point to availability on November 13. I did that drill- and made a screengrab of the Amazon.com page that came...
- Tags: Headphone, Microsoft Zune, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- Zune2 is no iPod killer, or even iPod competitor
- As colleague Greg Sandoval notes, Microsoft has announced the second-generation Zunes. Each will go on sale in November. There will be a $249.99 Zune 80GB hard-drive model, with a 3.2 inch screen, and two flash models: a Zune 8GB at $199.99 and...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Zune2, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- News to Know: AMD benchmarks, iPhone hacking, SAP's new day
- NEWS TO KNOW on a slow news dayGeorge Ou: AMD posts blatantly deceptive benchmarks on BarcelonaJon Lech Johansen: iPhone Independence DayAdrian Kingsley-Hughes: Let your iPhone run wild and free … free of AT&T that isPhoto Gallery: Cracking open the iPhone...and putting it back together againGigaOm: Why AT&T should offer free...
- Tags: YouTube, Web Technology, SAP, SaaS, Oracle, News to know, Microsoft, iPhone, Google, General, eBay, Craigslist, Apple, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-07-04
- TVU Networks answers copyright questions
- Legal experts say company may face legal challengesCNET News.com reporter Greg Sandoval speaks with TVU Networks CEO Paul Shen about the company's peer-to-peer software, which enables people to stream live TV broadcasts on to the Web without any authorization and involves file-sharing--a word that always gives entertainment executives pause.
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), TVU Networks
- Videos 2006-11-06
- OnAir GT makes your laptop a TV set
- Device relies on an antenna to pick up broadcastsCNET News.com reporter Greg Sandoval takes a look at AutumnWave's OnAir GT. It's an ashtray-size tuner that plugs into your laptop and turns it into an HDTV. Broadcast signals, both standard and HD, can be viewed.
- Tags: OnAir GT
- Videos 2006-10-18
- Dunn, others to be indicted in HP privacy scandal
- News.coms Greg Sandoval reports: Hewlett-Packards embattled former chairman Patricia Dunn and four others involved in HPs spying campaign will be indicted Wednesday by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, according to published news reports. The others expected to be indicted are Kevin T. Hunsaker, HPs former senior lawyer; Ronald...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Patricia Dunn
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- HP privacy probe: Dunn closer to being done (for)?
- News came out yesterday that former HP chairwoman Patricia Dunn was the one who gave HPs outside private investigators the phone numbers that were later used as part of a fraudulent pretexting scheme that was designed to smoke out whoever it was inside of HP that was leaking company secrets...
- Tags: Patricia Dunn
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- YouTube to go down the tubes?
- Last week, at MIT Emerging Technologies Conference, AOL Chairman and CEO John Miller predicted the YouTube would get acquired. When asked by a Reuters reporter if that meant that AOL was considering an acquisition of video sharing site, he made it clear that he wasnt going to confirm or...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., YouTube
- Blog posts 2006-10-02
- Mark Cuban on downloading movies: We're better off with preloaded hard drives sent UPS
- During a recent interview with News.com's Greg Sandoval, Mark Cuban (who, amongst other endeavours, owns the Dallas Mavericks) sees brown trucks as a better way of delivering rich (high def-like) content to end users than the Net. Said Cuban in the interview: The reality is that it's cheaper and...
- Tags: Net, hard drive
- Blog posts 2006-09-06
- CEO of MP3tunes explains his business
- Michael Robertson wants to store your musicMP3tunes will let you play your chosen tunes anywhere--car, PC, cell phone, or earphones. And, Robertson has another new business getting started, he tells CNET News.com's Greg Sandoval at Stanford's AlwaysOn Innovation Summit on July 26.
- Tags: Michael Robertson
- Videos 2006-07-27
- CEO of MP3tunes has advice for YouTube
- Michael Robertson speaks at Stanford University's AlwaysOn InnovMichael Robertson speaks at Stanford University's AlwaysOn Innovation SummitMP3tunes' CEO and Founder Michael Robertson appeared at Stanford University's AlwaysOn Innovation Summit on July 26. Talking with CNET News.com's Greg Sandoval, Robertson had some advice for his fellow entrepreneurs, including YouTube's Chad Hurley, on...
- Tags: AlwaysOn, Michael Robertson, Stanford University
- Videos 2006-07-26
- It's inevitable: this YouTube suit will be the first of many from the copyright machine
- As my colleague Greg Sandoval reported late yesterday, YouTube has been sued for copyright infringement.Complaintant Robert Tur has alleged that 1992 footage he took of the beating of trucker Reginald Denny in the aftermath of the Rodney King riots has been viewed for free over 1,000 times on YouTube, costing...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., YouTube
- Blog posts 2006-07-20
- Craigslist has 21 employees
- Craigslist founder: We don't aim to kill newspapersCraig Newmark, Craigslist's founder, spoke with CNET News.com's Greg Sandoval at Supernova 2006 in San Francisco on June 22. Despite its small staff, the free community classifieds site is expanding to new cities as newspapers lose print classifieds business.
- Tags: Craigslist
- Videos 2006-06-22
- At Craigslist, 'do unto others'
- Craig Newmark talks about Craigslist's present and futureAt Supernova 2006 in San Francisco on Thursday, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark tells CNET News.com's Greg Sandoval he's no "socialistic anarchist"--his small Craigslist staff is just trying to help people.
- Tags: Craigslist
- Videos 2006-06-22
- Another music titan (Sony) bites the Apple dust
- News.com's Greg Sandoval: The behemoth Japanese conglomerate [Sony], which once controlled the portable music market, announced Tuesday that the company's data compression technology would be compatible with a number of rival formats, including Apple's format of choice, AAC....In the past, Sony has fiercely held to...
- Tags: AAC, Apple Computer Inc., Sony Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-05-11
- I'm sorry, but BitTorrent is still a den of thieves
- On Tuesday, it was announced that BitTorrent's file-sharing system will be used by Warner Bros. to distribute films and TV shows starting sometime this summer.There's two ways to look at this.The far more benevolent view is that BitTorrent is a highly efficient technology for mass distribution of huge...
- Tags: BitTorrent, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2006-05-09
- Mozilla gets PR help from community
- Grassroots marketing through Firefox flicksCNET News.com's Greg Sandoval interviews Mozilla community coordinator Asa Dotzler, and Pete Macomber, who produced the winning 30-second promotion video in a Mozilla marketing contest. Mozilla picked the winner from nearly 300 video entries, announcing the victor on April 27 at the San Francisco Film Festival.
- Tags: Mozilla Corp.
- Videos 2006-04-28
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