Mike Hales

Simple fact: they’re not meant to! http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2004/10/04

Microsoft’s MSN Music store shouldn’t surprise anybody. The company with its own operating system, online service, digital-music format and media software was always the likeliest suspect to launch an online music store. But Microsoft didn’t rush to open its store last year, when most of its competitors debuted. Instead, it waited until last month — […]

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 […]