Microsoft lost a battle today in the ongoing war between themselves and Alcatel-Lucent over the patent infingement issues stemming from the use of the MP3 file format in media players such as Windows Media Player. Microsoft is really only the tip of the iceberg. Since the format is used in the vast majority of other […]

Puretracks whose majority owner is Bell Canada made the huge announcement today that it would begin offering certain music downloads in a DRM-free MP3 format.
Approximately 50,000 songs will be available without the DRM technology. Currently the Puretracks catalog is over one million songs so this is nothing compared to their entire library but it is […]

Noticed any peculiar red iPod nano’s floating around your area? No? Well that’s too bad because it’s probably a sign that you are spending too much time reading PocketSynch or watching movies on your PMP! You missed all the television commercials about Apple’s new nano craze or lack thereof. Though those folks sporting their shiny […]

In a story over on HypeBot it appears EMI could be looking to sell off it’s recorded music division in an effort to pull themselves out of the profit black hole they seem to have fallen into. So in an effort to cut costs and boost their share price the board is said to be […]

Patrick Robin is a 29-year-old web developer from South England.
He is a developer of a blogging platform called Forest Blog which he has worked on for quite some time. It is a freely distributed blogging platform under a linkware license so it does not cost any money and allows virtually anyone to use it.

Everyone is just waiting for something to be released in terms of mp3 players that could potentially Apple’s iPod to shame. In the last 5 years Apple has managed to take the entire mp3 player industry by storm with a variety of players spanning from pocket players to full multi-media devices.

In a story on engadget today, Thomas Ricker writes:
Brace yourselves good people of New York, mother government is prepared to step in (again) and save you from yourselves. Senator Carl Kruger is reportedly set to introduce legislation that