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Hilary Rosen, head of the Powerful Trade Organization for the $15 billion recording industry, is full of contrasts: She can be funny and charming, but criticize the actions of her organization and her face hardens. If Rosen has some rough edges, its not surprising, given the difficult task of leading her industry through the perils […]

At 39, Andreas Schmidt seems young to be a powerful media executive, but perhaps its his youth that enabled him to see opportunity in what others saw as a threat. Schmidt is credited as the architect of Bertelsmanns bold deal with the popular and controversial music file-swapping service Napster, a move that changed a legal […]

Maybe it is his mathematical logic. Maybe its his $100 billion acquisition war chest: Deutsche Telekoms Ron Sommer is irresistible to the U.S. Internet market. Sure, he has already bagged his first $45 billion cash-and-stock acquisition on this side of the Atlantic: mobile communications company VoiceStream Wireless, which will now receive $5 billion worth of […]

Since browsing the wireless web is complicated at best, wireless providers have been looking to voice portals to provide a friendlier face. According to voice and mobile commerce consulting firm The Kelsey Group, voice portals will be a $12 billion business by 2005. New companies such as BeVocal, HeyAnita, Openwave Systems, Quack.com, Tellme Networks and […]

Care for a cell phone with that Big Gulp? 7-Eleven workers across the country might be making that offer if a new type of wireless service provider is allowed to take root in the U.S. In Europe, the concept of mobile virtual network operators — or companies such as banks or retailers that dont own […]

If President George W. Bush knows anything about technology,we hope its this is not his fathers internet. Since his father left office, the Net has been transformed from a no-frills communications medium for academics into the tie that binds all people, all businesses, all over the world. Although President Bush has been slow to put […]

A struggle for dominance over the browsers that run on wireless handsets appears to be shaping up that could rival the browser wars in the personal computer market. As more companies enter the market for mini-browsers, confusion and fragmentation will likely hit the wireless Internet market. In the U.S., Openwave Systems, formerly called Phone.com, dominates […]

RealNetworks Hoops It Up RealNetworks last week announced a multiyear deal with the National Basketball Association under which RealNetworks will offer audio broadcasts of NBA games as well as NBA.com TV, the leagues Internet television network, as part of its GoldPass subscription service. Financial terms were not disclosed. Separately, RealNetworks says it has signed up […]

OK. I know its only George W. Bushs third week in office, but I think the question is legitimate: Where is his technology advisor? There were pre-inaugural rumors swirling around the Beltway that George II might appoint a “technology czar” to oversee government — and perhaps broader — technology policy. Then, as fast as it […]

New anti-piracy technology from Intel is making a hit in the entertainment industry. A little-known Intel invention called High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection — becoming widely adopted among consumer electronics makers and PC vendors — will make it virtually impossible to make unauthorized copies of high-definition video programming. To Hollywood, HDCP represents one of its most […]