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- EMI Music Enhances Global Digital Transaction Management by Standardising on SAP R/3
- To prosper in the digital world, global music company EMI Music is undertaking a major overhaul of its sales and billings model to reflect market evolution. Historically, EMI Music's local companies have used individual Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systems, but the company is in the process of moving to one...
- Tags: EMI Group Plc., Transaction Management, SAP R/3, SAP AG, ERP, Microsoft Corp., Music, EMI Music, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Databases, Software, Data Management
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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
- iTunes Store to offer booklets, liner notes
- Were you upset when albums were replaced by CDs because they had so much less real estate for album art and liner notes? Back in the day prerecorded music featured things like lyrics which seem to have mostly gone the way of the Dodo bird. Then CDs...
- Tags: Booklet, Apple iTunes, Liner Note, Album Art, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-07-26
- RIAA's $1.92 million victory: more about message, less about money
- RIAA's $1.92 million victory: more about message, less about moneyRIAA is a dangerous criminal organizationThere is only one victim here, that poor woman, they destroyed her life, and for what?Of course she lied that her kids were the one, that she hadn't known etc. She was trying to get away...
- Tags: CD, RIAA
- Discussion threads 2009-06-19
- Wow! Jury verdict in Capitol v Thomas-Rasset: $2 million
- Wow! Jury verdict in Capitol v Thomas-Rasset: $2 millionWas Thomas-Rasset hurting the RIAA, the recording artists, or both?I use iTunes Plus so I couldn't care less, but I agree - that verdict seems extreme...RIAA, Sony, EMI, Warner, Universal - the evil quartetEveryone also take a special moment to wish Mitch...
- Tags: Thomas-Rasset
- Discussion threads 2009-06-18
- Best Buy to sell vinyl records?
- The sale of vinyl records is on the rise. But why would anyone want to buy something that can't be easily popped into your car stereo, or placed in your computer to burn to your iPod? Well, apparently, people don't care about those things, or they're finding ways to transfer...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Vinyl Record, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Jennifer Bergen
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- iTunes price hike: Really? $1.29?
- It's time to panic. Everyone get to your iTunes store and buy, buy, buy--right now. According to the Los Angeles Times, iTunes, the world's largest online music store, will be raising the price of some of its tracks from 99 cents up to $1.29 as soon...
- Tags: Apple iTunes, Black Eyed Peas, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jennifer Bergen
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- 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
- Student suicide threat over RIAA bullying tactics
- After checking Twitter a few moments ago, I was shocked, horrified and appalled at the news that a student from Chicago threatened suicide over the forceful, bullying tactics of major media corporations. I didn't think my 200th post on ZDNet would result in me saying this. ...
- Tags: RIAA, Music, Thomas Perrelli, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- Rumor: iTunes music to go DRM-free today
- A report originally published by French technology site ElectronLibre says that Apple will spark new interest in its music store by removing DRM from tracks published by Sony, Universal and Warner on December 9th â€" which is today. AppleInsider notes: The site doesn't point to specific...
- Tags: Digital-rights Management, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Music, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
- 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
- Subscription music services: Are we there yet?
- Microsoft on Thursday announced a new music subscription model for its Zune music player and the big question in the back of the room is this: Will subscription music services ever become dominant? Sure, there are a few folks that subscribe to their music. And Microsoft has...
- Tags: Microsoft Zune, Music, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- BitRecorder 1.73 (Windows)
- BitRecorder - leader of record social video and audio revolution, is devoted to new generation Web (Web2.0) recording, such as video/music/streaming media from Myspace, YouTube, Imeem, Pandora, last.fm, emi.fi and other sites, and to make general recording easier. Best Features: Record all kinds of FLV format Flash Videos through HTTP...
- Tags: Audio, HTTP, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Windows, Video, StreamingStar Technology, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-10-22
- Music market shares in October 2008
- According to Nielsen SoundScan, Universal Music led the US music market with 35.12% in October 2008, followed by Sony Music with 22.79%, Warner Music with 21.12%, EMI Group with 8.35%, and the rest of the labels with 12.61%. SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "Music market shares in October 2008", url:...
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- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Ready to buy albums on a memory card? I didn't think so
- SanDisk on Monday rolled out-albums sold on microSD memory cards. The argument (statement, Techmeme): SanDisk, which is trying to fend off Samsung, will offer a new category of music. Instead of buying CDs, downloading songs and subscribing to services you'll buy these little memory cards. The cards...
- Tags: Memory Card, Album, Flash Memory, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Apple is not the real enemy of open source
- Apple is not the real enemy of open sourceGodwin's Law is now in effectGodwin's law: whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically "lost" whatever debate was in progress.Loser.Apple is the official NAZI PARTY of Open Source.Where is http://opendarwin.com? It's GONE.Apple SUPPORTED the whole OSx86 project, then THEY reneged- There...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Linux, Digital media, Godwin, Apple Inc., open source, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Official: MySpace to form joint venture with major record labels
- We knew it was coming but now it's official MySpace has announced the formation of MySpace Music, a new joint venture with three of the four major record labels: Universal Music Group, Sony BMG and Warner Music. The new service, which will roll out...
- Tags: MySpace, Social Networking, Web Technology, Digital Music, Digital Media, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- News to know: SAP; Google; XP; Windows Mobile; MuleSource; iPhone shocks
- Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: Leo Apotheker appointed joint CEO at SAP Larry Dignan: Google CIO to jump to EMI; And what does he know about music? Techmeme Mary Jo Foley: Will XP's 'execution stay' for emerging markets apply to other countries?...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Windows XP, Jason O'Grady, ISO, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Quality, Business Operations, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- 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
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