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Attributor Integrates Creative Commons with Text Fingerprinting
The text fingerprinting provider Attributor launched a beta version of a service called FairShare last week. FairShare enables anyone with an RSS feed — bloggers, for example — to attach Creative Commons noncommercial licenses to their content and use Attributor’s technology to track where their content is to be found on the web. There’s no […]
Amazon Launches Kindle Reader App for iPhones
Today Amazon is launching Kindle for iPhone and iPod Touch, an e-book reader application, available in the iPhone App Store at no charge. This is yet another major shift in platform tectonics for e-books, among so many in this young year already. And it shows that I was incorrect when I previously speculated that Amazon […]
Adobe Extends E-Book Platform to Several Mobile Devices
Adobe makes the e-book platform sweepstakes into a two-horse race with Amazon.
Stanza E-Book Reader To Add Adobe Support
Major publisher frontlist content will be available in Adobe formats on iPhones. This changes the dynamics of the e-book market.
QTrax to Launch with All Major Labels
Watch ads once a month and get free, legal access to music.
Intertrust Acquires SyncTV from Pioneer
An attempt to keep momentum around the Marlin DRM standard going.
Amazon’s Mobipocket Strategy
The e-book plot thickens as Amazon tries to leverage its smartphone and PDA platform for e-books.
Google’s Settlement with Publishers: Looking Down the Road
Future business models specified in the publishers’ settlement agreement with Google call for new business models that require structured content instead of page images. Will Google go to the trouble?
A Quiet MIDEM
The MIDEM music conference in Cannes, France seems to have passed about as quietly — with respect to our interests, at least — as CES in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago. Nokia’s Tero Ojanperä announced that Comes With Music will expand into more countries throughout the world this year, though he offered neither […]
Sonic Solutions Partners with Blockbuster on Video Delivery to Consumer Devices
This year’s CES show in Las Vegas wasn’t full of noteworthy events from our perspective. Most people I asked about their CES experience said something like “Don’t ask me, I was in meetings the whole time.” The consensus was that attendance was down but that those who did attend were the most senior people, making […]
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