Research and Markets: Australia - Digital Media - Music, MP3 and Podcasting

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Computer programmers new rockstars of music world

Hackers, who became anathema to the music labels at the dawn of digital file sharing, are now key players in the industry. At the  Rethink Music conference  in Boston last month, programmers, developers and tinkerers showed up for a 24-hour coding frenzy — a hackathon at Microsoft’s  New England Research and Development (NERD) Center  — in an effort to make the coolest app that could transform ...

How To Choose The Best Cloud For Your Data

We compared the leading cloud storage services on per-gigabyte pricing, sure. But there are a few tricks and tools for each service you probably don't know about. Four of the world’s biggest companies would seemingly do anything to give you gigabytes of free space on their servers. For anyone who remembers that 5 GB of slow, hard-to-install hard drive space cost $250 in 1998 , this feels mighty ...

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JAKARTA (Herald Malaysia) : Tensions remain high in central Java, where a crowd of a thousand Islamic extremists have targeted a shrine to the Virgin Mary: For security reasons, yesterday the authorities suspended the programmed church service, while dozens of policemen and soldiers guarding the place of Christian worship, fearing further - possible - violence.

Why the death of DRM would be good news

The decision by Tor Books to ditch digital rights management signals the beginning of the end of the ebook format wars At the end of April, Tor Books, the world's largest science fiction publisher, and its UK sister company, Tor UK, announced that they would be eliminating digital rights management (DRM) from all of their ebooks by the summer. It was a seismic event in the history of the ...