Microsoft Web audio gets major label support.

ANDY Schuon finds himself at a crossroads in the music industry. The president and chief executive of subscription-based Pressplay, the new Internet music site backed by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, Schuon is leading an effort to legitimize the transfer of music over the Internet. Pressplay and its ......

NEW YORK-The stocks of at least three Internet music companies were slated to begin trading publicly this ......

NEW YORK‹A few days before the heads of the world's major record labels gathered in New York to address the issue of online distribution of music (see story, page 5), the president of the National Assn. of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) was tackling the same topic at the annual Executive Summit, ......

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] COREY "CL" LLEWELLYN, 30, WAS BARELY OUT OF HIS TEENS when he decided he wanted to be a major player in the music industry. As an intern in 1995, he spent most of his time lugging clothes from video shoots back to the designers. Still, the Westchester, New ......

A new for-pay digital music service being distributed through the Grokster peer-to-peer network in the U.S. is running afoul of the recording industry by selling unlimited access to major-label music without authorization.

NEW YORK-EMI Recorded Music will make 24 albums and dozens of singles available for sale at a new music portal in December, as part of an innovative music-download program that uses a phone-card-type payment system for such ......

Streaming technology company RealNetworks and IBM are teaming to develop secure digital music distribution applications that will rival MP3 and other competing technologies. IBM's Electronic Music Management System (EMMS), better known as "The Madison Project," will be distributed to RealNetworks' existing 35 million registered users of its RealSystem G2 technology ......

Blooks - More choice for readers; more opportunity for authors Wednesday, November 30, 2005, 8:30 p.m. ET - FREE Guest Expert: Tom Evslin, Hackoff.com Book publishing is undergoing the same Internet-induced disruptive change in  marketing, promotion and distribution that has confounded the traditional music industry.  Readers benefit from increased ......

Microsoft flip-flop may signal blog clog By Paul Festa "As Web logs gain in popularity, critics warn that they are increasingly becoming the Internet's new bandwidth hog. The issue has been in the spotlight for much of this month, following a decision by Microsoft to abbreviate developer blogs both ......

In Washington these days, everyone is suddenly a friend of small business, even if an issue actually has little to do with small firms, or worse, adversely affects them.

The benefits associated with on demand software from a customer and software provider perspective are so significant it's unlikely on demand software will fade.