Music publishers are restricting online growth - DiMA

The head of the body that represents online music services has said that music publishers' demands are restricting the growth of the industry. Jonathan Potter, director of DiMA, the Digital Media Association, said that unless publishers accept a smaller share of the digital music pie for songwriters, the online services will not be able to cut prices in order to better compete with the 'free' music available on p2p file sharing networks. Publishers receive about nine per cent of each track sold. ...more

Starbucks to fill iPods to go

Starbucks may soon start filling iPods as well as coffee cups. It recently opened CD burning stations at its coffee houses in five US cities and found that customers linger longer as a result. 'That experience can go anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes as they continue to browse and listen and make their music selections,' said the head of Starbuck's entertainment division, Ken Lombard, according to the New York Daily News. ...more

Trains to offer broadband on the move

Rail passengers on London to Brighton services can expect to have access to broadband speed Internet access by the summer, following a link up between rail operator Southern and T-Mobile. Free trials will begin on some services in March. T-Mobile will provide the service to Wi-Fi equipped laptops and PDAs using technology developed by a UK-based company Nomad Digital. ...more

NTP hits Palm with patent suit

Patent firm NTP says it filed a patent infringement suit against Palm, maker of Treo smartphones. The company claims Palm's mobile devices and services infringe seven NTP patents and seeks uspecified monetary damages arising from that infringement. The infringement claims are around the mechanisms used within email services where they use wireless communications to supply services to mobile processors. ...more

Intel to launch 2GHz Pentium 4

AMD left biting dust. Intel is expected to launch a 2GHz version of its Pentium 4 processor within weeks, according to sources. The chip will be following hot on the heals of the recently announced 1. ...more