7 posts and columns on formats

Sony Raises the Curtain on Ariama, Its Classical iTunes

in Media on October 4, 2010 at 9:02 pm PT

Want your classical music on your iPhone, now? Sony Music is thinking about you: The label has opened up Ariama, the all-classical online store we told you about last summer.

Why the Future of Video Ads Looks a Lot Like Ancient History

in Media on March 16, 2010 at 1:02 pm PT

The Web video business is still trying to get its hands around the right way to use ads. But the easiest sell is the oldest one: Integrating the advertiser with the clip, like this series of Starbucks-sponsored Onion videos.

DOJ on Google Book Settlement: Get Me Another Rewrite

in News on February 5, 2010 at 5:05 am PT

The Department of Justice still isn’t sold on the Google Books settlement agreement. In a brief filed late Thursday, the DOJ said that significant legal problems remain despite the considerable changes Google, publishers and authors have made to it.
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Sony’s E-Reader Opens New Chapter in Kindle Rivalry

in Personal Technology on January 13, 2010 at 6:03 pm PT

The wireless Reader Daily Edition is a much-improved model that could make it more competitive with Kindle, but its interface takes some mastering, says Walt Mossberg.
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Can Adobe and Apple Play Nicely When–And If–The Tablet Shows Up?

in Media on November 19, 2009 at 3:33 pm PT

Adobe is preparing to put magazines on Apple’s purported wondertablet. But what if that device, like Apple’s iPhone, doesn’t want to work with Adobe?
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The Motorola CLIQ: WINR or LOZR?

in News on September 10, 2009 at 12:30 pm PT

Motorola has finally announced its bet-the-company Android handset. At GigaOM’s Mobilize 09 event in San Francisco this morning, Sanjay Jha, Motorola’s co-CEO and CEO of the company’s handset division, uncrated the CLIQ, a device it describes unremarkably as the “first phone with social skills.”
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Viacom Says It Has Cracked the Web Ad Riddle, Using Lots of Web Ads

in Media on July 16, 2009 at 8:59 am PT

Web video publishers are desperately trying to figure out how to make money selling ads against their clips, but Viacom’s MTV Networks says it has figured it out: Use lots of ads in each clip!
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