Mike Hales

Deutsche Telecom taking all of T-Online, to promote broadband adoption: CEO Kai-Uwe Ricke added: “Broadband has revolutionized fixed-line-based Internet business. We are in the middle of an ever increasing convergence of telecom and Internet service provider business models. This progressive merging also means that from a customer perspective – and that is the only gauge […]

In January 2004, the US Government added South Korea to its piracy watch list. South Korea joins the club with Russia, Taiwan, and India, as these governments have failed to prevent digital piracy of copyrighted content. But unlike other countries, a large percentage of Korea’s piracy comes from mobile phones. Korea is now the epicenter […]

Virgin Electronics is the latest to enter the portable mp3 market, with a 5GB player slated to hit the market at the end of October. The 5GB “Virgin Player” may land in the storage sweet spot for consumers, with the 4GB iPod mini showing success. Virgin brings a big name to the game, and can […]

iTunes continues to grow, most recently hitting 150 million total downloads. That works out to an average of four million downloads per month, and 200 million song purchases per year. Although it took more than one year to finally surpass the 100 million mark, a snowball effect now seems to be slowly emerging. That momentum […]

MusicNet is once again providing the guts for a new digital music store, this time for an f.y.e. digital retail play. The new store, initiated by f.y.e. owner Trans World Entertainment, will attempt the thread digital aspects into the physical buying experience. At several pilot locations, consumers will be able to download tracks on kiosks […]