Month: February 2005

Digital Music Forum – March 2, 2005

From 8:30 AM to 6:30 PM on Wednesday, March 2, the digital music elite will converge at the French Institute Alliance Francaise, 55 East 59th Street in New York City for the 2005 edition of the Digital Media Wire's Digital Music Forum. This year's keynote addresses will be delivered by Terry McBride, Founder & CEO, Nettwerk Productions and David Goldberg, VP & General Manager, Music, Yahoo!

Shawn Fanning - Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Snocap (formerly of Napster) will be interviewed by Chris Anderson - Editor-in-Chief, Wired and Mike Conte, General Manager, MSN Marketplaces, Microsoft will be interviewed by Paul Brindley, Managing Director, MusicAlly.

I attended this event two years ago. It seemed then that most of the discussion centered around P2P and music piracy. This year's panels seem to be focused on the business of online music and the explosion of music on wireless devices....

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Mobile Ring Tones: Where's the House Music?

Interesting thing about the move this time. It forced me to take a look at my communication options. Did I want to switch my standard ATT Home service to the new apartment, or should I just try and survive on the celly? With all the taxes and surcharges you pay for a home phone, plus long distance, it was costing me more a month for the phone in the house than the one I'm carrying around. I remember in the early 90's it was the other way around. Carrying a cell phone was much more expensive. How times have changed.

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