Small Business Resources, Business Advice and Forms from AllBusiness.com

RealNetworks, IBM To Test Broadband Music Delivery.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief...

By Luh, James C.
Publication: Internet World
Date: Monday, April 12 1999

REALNETWORKS THIS WEEK will announce it is collaborating with IBM on the Electronic Music Management System (EMMS), a test project IBM plans to launch this spring with five major music companies.

The EMMS is intended to field-test technologies designed by IBM and RealNetworks to deliver albums to consumers digitally over broadband connections. RealNetworks will contribute client and encoding components.

Microsoft is rumored to be planning its own digital music distribution platfo

In addition, make sure to read these premium articles also available with your free trial:

T T T
art_print Printart_email Email 16x16-digg-guy  Digg It delicious-small  del.icio.us

Related Resources

Free AllBusiness Articles

  • Online music: the sound of success; the online music industry is turning the traditional music industry on its head.
    • [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A strange thing is happening in the music industry: The Record Industry Association of America, the chief lobby group of major recording labels in the United States, is filing hundreds of lawsuits against avid music lovers. The reason? These music lovers--specifically, those who swap downloaded music files instead ......
  • Buy a CD, right off a set-top
    • Cable operators will be singing a new tune if the team behind a soon-to-be-announced cable channel dedicated to music and e-commerce has its way. The still-unnamed channel, which will eventually enable cable subscribers to buy entire albums via cable set-top boxes, is the brainchild of World Theatre, a company founded ......
  • Canada: Music Industry Sees Bright Digital Future
    • Canada's music industry this year faces the challenge of moving digital music from a niche market to mainstream status while grappling with the role of new online outlets.
  • Digital Rules The Day
    • Telecom companies here are taking a major role in the development of the country's music industry.
  • Music Industry Prepares Lawsuit Against Yahoo China
    • The world's biggest music companies are preparing a lawsuit against Yahoo China for copyright infringement as part of an effort to crack down on piracy, trade group International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said.
  • D.C. To Biz: Work Out Your Own Web Licensing Plan
    • Federal lawmakers told a music industry panel yesterday that they favor continued private sector negotiations to solve Internet music licensing problems rather than a government-mandated compulsory license.C ......
  • Publishers Slip Between The Digital Sheets
    • One unlikely beneficiary of the digital technology threatening to revolutionize the recorded music industry is the very business that preceded it.

Blogs

  • Should you Own a Camera Phone?
    • For those of us who use a compact digital camera as an everyday documenation and snapshot tool the time may have come to ditch the dedicated camera in favor of a high resolution camera phone. In addition to having a gadget fetish I've been a fairly serious amateur photographer for ......
  • All Bloggers
Related Topics
Tools

Sponsored Links

Site Map | Contact Us | FAQs | About Us | Media Kit | Reprints | RSS Directory | Sign Up for Free Newsletters | Disclosure Policy

Copyright © 1999 - 2008 AllBusiness.com, Inc. All rights reserved.
No part of this content or the data or information included therein may be reproduced,
republished or redistributed without the prior written consent of AllBusiness.com.
Use of this site is governed by our Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy, Terms of Use Agreement and Privacy Policy.

Get In-Depth Company Information from Hoover's | Buy a D&B Credit Report | What is in Your Company's D&B Credit Report? | Article Archives
Online Business Database | Online Business Information | Email Marketing Lists | Sales and Marketing Solutions | Business Mailing Lists
Information and opinions on AllBusiness.com solely represent the thoughts and opinions of the authors and are not endorsed by, or reflect the beliefs of,
AllBusiness.com, its parent company D&B, and its affiliates.