Apple’s worldwide product marketing manager for the iPod, Danika Cleary, talks to Macworld about the pricing for the new iPod mini:iPod mini costs $249 via Gizmodo Read More »
The enternal debate: Music-download store or digital-jukebox subscription? Ultimately, we’ll want both, thinks Business 2.0 editor at large Erick Schonfeld. “Ultimately, subscription services will have to merge with the store concept, because there will always be that subset of albums that you just have to… Read More »
There is a massive brouhaha brewing over a recent piece by Columbia University professor ELi Noam who writes in The Financial Times that we are headed towards a future where IT fails. Whoops! Shades of another article by another person sitting in the ivory… Read More »
Brilliant headline, by the way. In a series in Forbes on the business of hip-hop, a story on the newest hip-hop accessory for the urban set: a cell phone with rap-inspired ring tones. And why do rap songs translate into good ringtones? The strong beats of… Read More »
Thanks to those trash talking teens and fast driving Nascar dads, Nextel has posted a rocking fourth quarter. The parent company added 500,000 new subscribers, while Boost Mobile added 385,000. That makes it second only to Verizon Wireless. Even the ARPU is up. Looking… Read More »
Esme over at MuniWireless rips apart the PR spiel from Gartner. If you remember yesterday, I had posted a tiny blurb on hotspot users growth. bq. Gartner analysts warn: if organizations do not undertake a contract with a service provider to allow access to hot spots… Read More »
So maybe Napster second coming may not be very different than the first, at least in the end result…some very interesting details emerging on the troubles at Napster and its parent Roxio. Apparently, HP was supposed to tie up with Napster, and not Apple, but it… Read More »
Legal sales of downloadable songs topped two million units for the first time last week. (By contrast Eric Garland, a spokesman for Big Champagne, a company that tracks file-swapping, estimates that about 250 million songs in the MP3 format are being traded each week through the… Read More »
In August 2000, I had filed a story for Red Herring 1.0, called BackOffice, India. (Published in issue dated October 2000, which means it came out sometime in early September.) Much of the work in this story was done when I was trying to dissuade one… Read More »
Normally it is okay for CEO’s to make big money, but not when the company is having a bit of a rough time. Ed Whitacre, the tyrant CEO of SBC Communications (which is just digesting its $41 billion cake called AT&T Wireless) took in a… Read More »
There is a lot of armchair quarterbacking on the $41 billion merger, but most are failing to bring up the critical and perhaps the single most important issue of this deal: spectrum. I was chatting with Rich Nespola, CEO of the Management Network Group… Read More »
High Speed Internet is hot. So hot, that Covad, the wholesale DSL provider managed to become profitable ahead of its own internal plans. Not bad for a company that was a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case a couple of years ago. This morning, the company announced… Read More »
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