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Let it (not) be

According to a report from MediaMemo's Peter Kafka Apple will not be making a Beatles-related announcement at its 9/9/9 event tomorrow, but that the event would feature iPod and iTunes revs. Big whoop. Kafka makes the case like Andy Ihnatko before him that...

Tags: EMI Group Plc., Kafka, Digital Music, Digital Media, Game Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-09-08

Former Google CIO Merrill out at EMI

Not quite a year ago, Douglas Merrill left his position as Google's Chief Information Officer and went on to try something crazy challenging - and maybe even just plain crazy. He accepted an executive's position at record label EMI and was handed the task of figuring out this whole digital...

Tags: Google Inc., Lawsuit, EMI Group Plc., Douglas Merrill, Digital Media, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-23

No Beatles iPod for Christmas

No Beatles iPod for ChristmasWho?Each year that passes makes this group more and more irrelevant. In five more years, the only people who will care are 60 year old journalists.I wonder what EMI is asking for?Pagan jimBeatles - Who cares?Half of them are dead. They represent a generation so removed...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Beatles, Apple Inc., EMI Group Plc.

Discussion threads 2008-11-25

No Beatles iPod for Christmas

It looks like you won't be able to buy The Beatles music on iTunes this holiday season, which threatens to take a bite out of Apple revenue for the all important holiday quarter. Talks between Apple and The Beatles' record label Apple Corps Ltd. have "stalled" according...

Tags: EMI Group Plc., Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-25

An Assessment Methodology of Implantable Medical Device EMI Due to RFID Reader/Writers Based Upon the Three-Dimensional EMF Distribution Measurement

ElectroMagnetic Interference EMI from commercially available RFID reader/writers on implantable cardiac pacemakers and cardioverter-defibrillator ICD were investigated. The author has carried out detailed in-vitro experiments to assess the EMI due to RFID reader/writers for implantable medical devices (RFID/IMD-EMI). In this paper, an assessment methodology for the RFID/IMD-EMI based on three-dimensional...

Tags: EMI Group Plc., Medical Device, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2008-07-18

Google CIO to jump to EMI; And what does he know about music?

Google CIO to jump to EMI; And what does he know about music?Maybe it's a lark ... or something else ...He should have a quadrillion Google stock options in his pocket, so he doesn't need the money. He might be taking the job as a personal lark, doing something that...

Tags: EMI Group Plc., Google Inc., sales

Discussion threads 2008-04-01

Google CIO to jump to EMI; And what does he know about music?

Google CIO Douglas Merrill will reportedly jump ship to EMI to become president of the music label. His mission: Figure out this digital music thing. Merrill's move--reported by John Furrier and confirmed at numerous other news outlets--is a curious move. For EMI, Merrill brings technical know-how and...

Tags: Google Inc., CIO, EMI Group Plc., Music, Strategy, IPO, Digital Media, Leadership, Digital Music, Management, Financial Services, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-01

EMI labels sue online music executive Robertson

EMI labels sue online music executive RobertsonI really wishthese music companies would go after someone with deep pockets, who could slap them back and hard, thereby forcing the major labels to join the rest of us in the 21st century or go extinct...

Tags: online music executive, EMI Group Plc., online music

Discussion threads 2007-11-11

Global Music Company Leads Industry Transformation With Scalable Infrastructure

Digital sales and developments such as Internet subscription services and mobile downloads place enormous demands on the IT infrastructure at EMI Music. Part of top music company EMI Group, EMI Music needs to ensure its systems can scale to meet increasing data levels and support change. EMI Music supports its...

Tags: Data Management, Databases, EMI Group Plc., Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Hardware, Internet, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Operating Systems, Sales, Sales Strategy, Servers, Software

Case studies 2007-11-01

DRM: The hearse is right on schedule

Universal Music Group on Friday said that it will sell "thousands of its albums and tracks" without DRM for a limited time. Universal said in a statement that its test will run from August and January and track "consumer demand, price sensitivity and piracy in regards to the availability of...

Tags: Digital-rights Management, Universal Music Group, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-08-10

Is EMI the chink in the RIAA armor?

Is EMI the chink in the RIAA armor?They already haveThe RIAA has gone after the P2P providers. They shut down Napster by running them out of money to the point where they had to sell. They got ruling in Australia nailing Kazza to the wall. The problem is that P2P...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Digital media, EMI Group Plc., RIAA CLAIMS, drug user, RIAA

Discussion threads 2007-06-05

Is EMI the chink in the RIAA armor?

Does anyone really believe the RIAA when they tell us that 'the sky is falling' from rampant piracy? Just last year, the recording industry, was trying to strong-arm Apple into raising its base price for it's entire DRM-protected music library.  Apple held firm on its 99 cent pricing model and drew...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-04

EMI Music spins Google YouTube song and dance

Just as Internet Kings Chad Hurley and Eric Schmidt were on stage last week at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference spinning YouTube is still working on video copyright protection tools, so no need for multibillion dollar Viacom infringement claims, Hurley was also unleashing a we're copyright owners friends combo pitch in conjunction with...

Tags: YouTube, Video, Music, Google, Copyright

Blog posts 2007-06-03

iTunes supposedly DRM-free music not so DRM-free?

iTunes supposedly DRM-free music not so DRM-free?EMI is the only company experimenting.And was financially weak when making the agreement.How will the success of the experiment be measured? An increase in sales online and offline? A reduction in filing sharing, including songs from iTunes with the identifying information stripped...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, DRM-Free Music, digital-rights management, EMI Group Plc., Apple iTunes, music

Discussion threads 2007-06-01

iTunes supposedly DRM-free music not so DRM-free?

If you follow the digital music business at all, then you know by now that earlier this year, Apple CEO Steve Jobs issued a clarion call (ok, an open letter) to the entertainment confab to free digital content of any digital rights management DRM technology: the technology that, in the...

Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Security, Personal Technology, General, Entertainment, Apple

Blog posts 2007-06-01

EMI: DRM assassin

EMI: DRM assassinI hope you are rightMy gut tells me that you are 100% correct that EMI is leading a frontal assault on DRM, and it will make DRM a sad memory.Par for the course..... part of the circleIndustrialists take technological advancements and wrap them with restrictive trickery to extort...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, EMI Group Plc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-31

EMI: DRM assassin

When the obituary of digital rights management DRM software is written music label EMI is going to get a fairly meaty chapter.First, EMI delivers its catalog DRM-free on iTunes. And now it's counting YouTube as a dance partner. In the music industry, EMI is the equivalent of scab that just...

Tags: YouTube, Web Technology, Personal Technology, Google, General, Entertainment, Apple

Blog posts 2007-05-31

YouTube, EMI sign breakthrough licensing pact

YouTube, EMI sign breakthrough licensing pactEMI ahead of the curveGood to see one company actually trying to adapt to new technologies and take advantage of them. The others will eventually catch up.U-Tube unites EMISir. The whole world is a small village as per Thomas Friedman who wrote the...

Tags: EMI Group Plc., U-Tube, YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-31

iTunes goes DRM-free with EMI

iTunes goes DRM-free with EMII might have to take a lookSee if anything interesting is available.Here's a future questionITunes the store hasn't been available on Linux operating systems because Apple didn't much care for the DRM-free operating system that Linux is.Now that they're selling DRM-free music, will iTunes now be...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Apple iTunes, digital-rights management, CD, Apple Inc., EMI Group Plc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-30

EMI/Amazon execs unplugged: Will Amazon's DRM-free downloads dent Apple?

EMI/Amazon execs unplugged: Will Amazon's DRM-free downloads dent Apple?The things you don't seem to understandI'm willing to be Jobs has zero regrets about calling for no DRM. What you don't seem to understand is that Apple seems ready to compete solely on merit, on the quality of their products...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Digital rights management (DRM), EMI Group Plc., friction, Apple Inc., iPODS, Apple iPod, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2007-05-17