eWEEK EDITORS

Everybody loves mobility. Employees love the freedom of being unshackled from their desks. Employers love reducing travel-related disruption. Vendors and their partners love the expansion of new specialized markets. Crooks love the opportunity to get at your hardware. Even as companies begin to recognize the need to defend their networks, they often miss the new […]

A European Parliament Committee is expected to vote this week on key legislation outlining which protections copyrighted works produced in digital formats will enjoy under European law. The controversial measure has been moving through the European Unions legislative process for three years. The parliaments legal affairs committee will consider the measure Monday, and is expected […]

Online music has an image problem that would give a marketing director headaches. If one were to watch MTV or leaf through any mainstream publication, an image would emerge of a goofball college student, probably male, probably white, probably downloading music using a big fat T1 (1.5-megabit-per-second) dormitory pipe between paused sessions of Tomb Raider. […]

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 aggressive lawsuits, outrageous licensing demands and strong-arm tactics that range from refusals to share promotional materials to monopolistic threats, Internet music executives said the powerful recording industry has made it […]

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 to listen to your favorite songs on your computer. Nor is it to trade your treasured albums with friends over the Internet. In fact, the best use of digital music doesnt […]

The world of digital music flowing over the Internet is a confusing jumble of technical standards, mathematical constructions, file formats with strange names and a good amount of legal wrangling. The good news is that while the legal storm continues, the technical aspects of online digital music are becoming easier to understand and utilize. All […]

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 fight it out in court, another group of technologists is developing a compromise known as the digital watermark. If it works as planned, rights holders will be able to collect their […]

Video didnt kill the radio star, and online music downloads are not expected to extinguish traditional music stores. In fact, some studies have shown that downloading music actually drives CD sales. Last June, Yankelovich Partners and the Digital Media Association did a survey that revealed nearly half of the nations music fans are turning to […]

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 other European companies that provide music over the Internet. Europe has been struggling to catch up to the U.S. lead in utilizing and developing the Internet for the past few years. […]

The clock is running out for Netpliance, a pioneering Internet appliance start-up that was unable to sustain its original business model. The companys stock has been trading at less than $1 since mid-December and is in danger of being delisted by Nasdaq. Last month, a small group of investors led by John McHale, Netpliances chairman […]