Apple announced a major overhaul of the iPod and slashed the price of the iPhone. Upgrades to the iPod include more storage, bigger screens, and a new ‘iPod Touch’ model featuring the iPhone’s multitouch interface, built-in Wi-Fi and the Safari Internet browser, and ability to play YouTube videos.
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )MTV Networks announced plans to invest over $500 million in video games over two-years as part of a global strategy to incorporate games development at the inception of all new programming plans.
MTV has seen early success with properties such as Xfire, GameTrailers, Neopets.com and Nicktropolis — traffic to AddictingGames.com surged 84% in July, offering casual [...]
Mobile phone content is forecast to reach $43 billion worldwide by 2010, up from $5.2 billion in 2004. Led by ringtones and ringtunes, ‘mobile music’ represents the largest and fastest-growing wireless content segment — with last year’s transition from polyphonic ringtones to ringtunes pushing global music content revenues for the year to $3.8 billion. The [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The ring tone business generated $217 million in revenue in 2004 for cell phone providers. Wireless operators, content providers and cell phone makers see huge opportunities in the addition of music and entertainment content, though business challenges loom as they try to create partnerships that will satisfy customers without eroding their existing markets. The [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Apple Computer said that it is selling 1.25 million music downloads at 99 cents apiece every day, with total purchases of over 250 million songs from its online iTunes Music Store. iTunes accounts for 70% of music sold online legally between December 2003 and July 2004. Apple sold 4.5 million iPods in Q4, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Starbucks is expanding its digital music service to 15 Starbucks shops in Seattle and 30 in Austin, Texas. The Hear Media music bar service lets customers burn custom music compilations onto a CD, selecting songs from Hear Music’s digital library of 150,000 songs. Consumers can browse the catalog on a touch screen and listen to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The NPD Group reported that peer-to-peer usage was up 14 percent in November 2003 from September, after 6 months of declines in digital file sharing. Usage began dropping in April 2003 when the RIAA began filing the first of more than 300 lawsuits against individual file sharers.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )IMPULSE Digital Media is published by James Brennan, President of digital media consulting firm Mandalan Media, which operates web video wiki Strmz.com.
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