Monthly Archives: January 2001
Careful With That Club, Craig
Just like other retired executives, former Cabletron chairman and CEO Craig Benson is heading to the golf course. But in this case, he owns...
Online Music Companies Outplayed
The music lovers dream of a digital "Celestial Jukebox" has turned into an entrepreneurs nightmare, and critics maintain major record companies are to blame.Using...
Music in the Air
Amid the tangled legal wranglings of MP3.com and Napster, the vision behind digital music has been forgotten. The best use of digital music isnt...
Geekspeak: January 29, 2001
It costs a bit too much, its battery doesnt last quite long enough, its a little too bulky to forget that you have it—but...
On the Record
The public profile of the Recording Industry Association of America has certainly risen dramatically over the last two years. Our mission is to promote...
Learning How to Share
The world of digital music flowing over the Internet is a confusing jumble of technical standards, mathematical constructions, file formats with strange names and...
Marked Music
To many, the fight between the record companies and the Napster-loving, music-swapping public looks like a battle to the death. While these two sides...
From Click to Brick
Video didnt kill the radio star, and online music downloads are not expected to extinguish traditional music stores. In fact, some studies have shown...
Stalled Songs
Adriano Marconetto, Vice President at an Italian online music company called Vitaminic, acknowledges the head start enjoyed by U.S. counterparts to his firm and...
Bad News Can Be Good News
Youve been reading a lot of "bad" technology news lately. In the last month, our front page has included stories on the dot-com and...