English band Hell Is For Heroes having success with interactive music video: [EMI] home to the likes of Robbie Williams, Coldplay, Blur and Radiohead, has already produced the world’s first fully interactive video and is so pleased with the results that it plans to repeat the trick with several of …

Dow Jones reports WMG and BMG are the latest majors in merger talks: AOL Time Warner Inc. and Bertelsmann AG are in active talks to merge their music divisions into an entity that would rival Vivendi Universal SA’s Universal Music Group, the industry leader, and have a roster of artists …

Casting my damaged memory back 30+ years, I used to actually get up early to watch Saturday morning cartoons, where the animated fruits of the network’s imaginations were fed to kids like some national electronic breakfast. I especially loved the music cartoons like the Banana Splits, Archies, Beatles, Fat Albert, …

Gunnar Van Vliet compares the sound quality of the new Apple Music Store AAC codec vs. MP3: Being a Mac user and a music lover, when Apple announced the Apple Music Store for digital song downloads I was very excited. The store uses a new codec called AAC to deliver …

Chalabi says Saddam and his vile progeny remain alive and in Iraq: “Our sources confirm that he (Saddam) has actually not left Iraq,” Chalabi told the Arabic-language Asharq al-Awsat daily in an interview in Baghdad. “He is here with his sons but they don’t always travel together. “I can’t tell …

Rather scathing analysis of Microsoft’s PR for DRM (digital rights management) in the Register: Microsoft is putting a lot of money into Digital Rights Management, and expects to get a lot more money back out so long as it can persuade consumers that DRM is their fluffy friend, and most …

Using free to sell not-free via Altnet – the “first peer-to-peer network created to give consumers easy access to secure content that originates from content owners” – which piggybacks off of Kazaa: Altnet today announced that it has secured the exclusive distribution rights to artist and author Lee Jaffe’s never-been-seen-before …

Dan Bricklin addresses the central question underlying the copyright wars: how does the artist get paid: The USA was found upon the principles of the right of all to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. For the artist, that would be by letting them create their art and be …

Crap (and urine) produced.

TiVO inside: TiVo Inc., whose technology allows television viewers to pause and replay live shows, on Thursday said it will license a bare-bones version of its service primarily to makers of DVD players. In an effort to increase its subscriber base, TiVo will license consumer electronics makers to build devices …