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Zingy and Nextel go polyphonic: Polyphonic ring-tones are richer, fuller sounding compositions than traditional monophonic ring-tones — the jingles that play on cellphones. Zingy will offer hundreds of new polyphonic song titles to Nextel subscribers who use the Motorola handsets, allowing wireless users to personalize the sound of their phones. …

We have been hearing about the integration of television and the Internet for some time now. Where is it? We saw some of it at last year from NBC in conjunction with the Winter Olympics, as USA Today notes: During its coverage of last year’s Winter Olympics, NBC cleverly directed …

We have gained some fascinating firsthand experience into the federal rulemaking comment process (regarding the DMCA) – I frankly wasn’t aware that there was such a thing until fairly recently, and it appears I am not alone: the number of public comments on federal rules has increased twentyfold in the …

University of Iowa professor Kembrew McLeod “reserves the right to rock” and has the ‘do to prove it (there are plenty of “hair bands” but this is a “hair family”). A statement released today shows McLeod plans to rock AT&T with a cease and desist letter, mailed by his lawyer …

Though it’s probably unfair to indulge in such comparisons, I’ve got to admit that I felt a stronger affinity to the late Bill Mauldin than I did recently deceased caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. Mauldin was the first editorial cartoonist that I paid regular attention to. I’ve mentioned the influence Walt Kelly’s …

Why can't the music industry learn from the experience of drug dealers or porn magnates?

The Economist decides that entertainment is a difficult business, and that key to success to to strike the appropriate balance between creative and business impulses – duh: ONE by one, the men of extravagant vision and exaggerated showmanship have been toppled from the upper ranks of the world’s media giants. …

Japan is a culture that does what its told to do, like this: Sony said yesterday it has begun sales in Japan of CD singles that require users to pay a small fee over the Internet each time they make copies. Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc said the new CDs …

The news just keeps rocking the recording industry: Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Chairman and CEO Hilary Rosen, announced today that she will leave the organization at the end of 2003. Rosen, who was named CEO in 1998 and has been with RIAA for 17 years has been the …

Via Glenn-omir, grim tidings from the Return of the King film front: why buy into EITHER the Star Wars OR the Lord of the Rings universe when you can have both? A recently leaked trailer for The Return of the King has Tolkien fans outraged over the apparent addition of …