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Skype official on iPhones

According to the usual suspect insider sources and meanwhile confirmed by Skype, the company launches an official iPhone version of it's service this Tuesday, working with iPhones as well as with the iPod touch device. ... [More]

Free music download service behind the Great Wall

300 million Internet users in China - and most of them don't pay for music ... or videos ... or software, creating a situation, where even some Chinese music acts stopped recording, because piracy destroyed the business. But, behold, Google has had an idea: In conjunction with over 15 record labels the company announced the launch of a free online music download service, delivering 1.1 million tracks to mainland China. ... [More]

Made-to-order DVDs from Warner

Classics direct to DVD: Warner Bros has opened its library of old movies and television shows and launched a made-to-order DVD service, currently on the base of 150 titles ... [More]

Warner's still removing content from YouTube

Due to licensing fights the Warner Music Group is still removing content from YouTube and has taken down tens of thousands of amateur videos by now. ... [More]

Nine Inch Nails has got some more ...

... for free. As well as their friends Jane's Addiction and former Audioslave guitarist's newcomer band Street Sweeper they contributed two tracks on an EP, available for download. ... [More]

iTunes gets HD movie downloads

Apple now offers HD movie downloads in 720p in its iTunes Movie Store. Beginning March, 24th one can rent or buy Hollywood movies like 'Transporter 3', 'Punisher: War Zone' and 'Quantum of Solace' at the same time, the videos are published on DVD and Blu-ray. ... [More]

IMBd as streaming service of all movies ever

As the movie information site IMDb recently annouced, plans are to offer free streaming of the entire database of movies and TV shows - more than 1.3 million videos ... [More]

iPod Shuffle: Hidden DRM for free

Does anybody know, what's inside the stuff she is buying? Of course not. Does this mean, one can implement anything one wants to without any notice? Well, regarding to some insiders, who disassembled Apple's iPod shuffe, the headphones include a mysterious chip, which might be some new form of DRM ... [More]

Fox tells DVDs from rentals

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment recently announced, that they will tell rentals from DVDs and therefor create two different classes: the premium version of any movie DVD will include extras and will be sold as usual, the rental version will just be available in video rental stores and lacks all extras. Digital copies for mobile devices will also be reserved for 'normal' DVDs. ... [More]

Free Blu-ray player from Denon ... well, nearly

In cooperation with Amazon.com Denon gives away a Blu-ray player for free - after purchasing a Denon receiver. The Denon DVD-2500BT is listed at $900 USD, but usually sold for a little less than $500 USD. ... [More]

No You Tube music videos for the UK

Since Google and the Britain music royalty collection society PSR did not find an agreement on license rights, the YouTube platform was forced to stop access to their music videos for UK users. ... [More]

Half of your babies are thieves

... says the UK-based global security company GSS. Regarding to their study about 50 percent of all children in the United Kingdom share files through the well known networks and trade music. And the company has even more to claim ... [More]

South Park goes Netflix

The creators and rightholders of the well known 'South Park' have signed an exclusive agreement with Netflix, which will allow the company to stream the first nine seasons through Netflix's 'Watch Instantly' streaming service. The complete package includes all 181 episodes from theses seasons. ... [More]

Xbox is gone for good, says Microsoft

The Xbox is gone, positive. The predecessor of the next generation console Xbox 360 will not be supported anymore, as Microsoft recently announced ... [More]