Napster today reported financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2007. Losses continue at the company, despite increased revenues. Net revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007 grew to $29.1 million, up from $28.4 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2007. Net loss for the fourth quarter of […]

Apple Inc.¬†has received the official go-ahead on the iPhone, its first mobile handset,¬†from the Federal Communications Commission. The innovative phone promises to combine cell phone capabilities with the iPod’s media power and cutting-edge mobile Internet features. In an SAR Test Report conducted on February 6th, 2007, FCC Test Lab Manager Lothar Schmidt wrote the following: […]

Coca-Cola has announced that it is teaming with iTunes on Europe’s biggest music promotion ever, spanning 17 European countries and running from May until the end of August. As part of the promotion, Coke and iTunes will give away songs from the iTunes Store in over 2 billion promotional packs of Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and […]

Ozzy Osbourne wants you to direct his next video, for the track I Don’t Wanna Stop from his upcoming album Black Rain. He’s offering prizes for the best music video, including a Sony HD video cam. Here are the details: Here’s what we’re looking for. Ozzy wants a video for his new single “I Don’t […]

Apple today announced that Paul McCartney‚Äôs new album, Memory Almost Full, is now available for digital pre-order, and McCartney’s full catalog of 25 solo albums will be available for the first time digitally on iTunes later this month. iTunes customers pre-ordering the 13 track album in the US will receive the Dance Tonight music video […]

UK record label First Word Records is offering DJs the best of both worlds – vinyl records that include downloadable MP3s – with a new service, DigiWax.The records are double-weight vinyl discs that come with a unique code. With the code, buyers can download an unprotected, 320Kbps MP3 version of the music, to use however […]

Media Rights Technologies and BlueBeat.com, developers of digital rights management software, have issued cease and desist letters to Microsoft, Adobe, Real Networks and Apple for failing to implement the companies’ DRM technology in Windows Vista, Adobe’s Flash Player, Real Player and Apple’s iTunes and iPod. The companies are using an unusual interpretation of the Digital […]

For people with pacemakers, iPods could be deadly. iPods can cause cardiac implantable pacemakers to malfunction, according to a study presented by a 17-year-old high school student to a meeting of heart specialists on Thursday. The study tested the effect of the portable music devices on 100 patients, whose mean age was 77, outfitted with […]

Details are leaking out about a new round of Microsoft Zune portable media players and updates to the Zune’s operating system. The changes look to be incremental, rather than revolutionary, and don’t look like they will be enough to turn the Zune into more than another iPod wannabe. According to an¬†iLounge report, Microsoft reviewed new […]

Amazon.com today officially launched the Amazon Podcasts network, an original podcast offering¬†that features four channels of free content: Amazon BookClips, Music You Should Hear, Significant Seven and Amazon Wire. The company expects to offer several additional channels in the coming months to meet its customers‚Äô increasing demand for rich content related to the products they […]