At the recent CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, internet radio got quite a bit of attention. According to Bob Struble, a CES board member and from ibiquity.com, “All of the automakers are working on new entertainment and information sources for cars, including in-vehicle internet, and fully integrated iPod/MP3 functionality.”
In preparation for this, and [...]
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Portable Internet Radio: It’s Coming
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Clear Channel Layoffs Bad Sign For Radio
Clear Channel, the media conglomerate, announced that 1,850 staffers would be laid off in a cost cutting move. The original announcement indicated about a 7% cut but this measures to about 9% according to industry sources.
No doubt the recession is affecting traditional media dispropotionately and this is certainly a sign of it. With many of [...]
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How Fast Is Your World Moving?
I operated as a marketing consultant from 1995 to 2005, then I took a break from the entrepreneurial world with a “real” job.
Since relaunching this business in late 2008, I have been taken aback by how fast the marketing world is being changed by the Internet, and in particular, Web 2.0/social networking.
According to a new [...]
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Digital Rights Management (DRM) Disappearing from Music
Two bits of “breaking news” on the digital music front, undoubtedly related.
At MACWORLD, Apple announced this week that its iTunes service would move to three price points for digital music downloads: .69, .99 and 1.29, based on the track’s popularity. They also–much more significantly–announced that the service was eliminating the controversial Digital Rights Management (DRM) [...]