Online music storage firm MP3tunes files for bankruptcy
Discover Yahoo! With Your FriendsExplore news, videos, and much more based on what your friends are reading and watching. Publish your own activity and retain full control.To get started, firstLogin with FacebookYOUR FRIENDS’ ACTIVITYprevnextOnline music storage firm MP3tunes files for bankruptcyReuters – 1 hr 13 mins ago(Reuters) – Online music storage firm MP3tunes Inc filed for bankruptcy in a U.S. court, following its prolonged run-in with music publishing giant EMI Group over copyright issues, court filings showed.MP3tunes is a so-called cloud music service that lets users store music in online “lockers.” Amazon.com Inc, Apple Inc and Google Inc have similar cloud services.EMI’s lawsuit against MP3tunes and its chief executive, Michael Robertson, is part of the music industry’s efforts to stop websites from letting people download and share music online without paying for it. Fourteen other record companies and music publishers were also part of the copyright case that was filed in 2007.However, last year, a federal judge in Manhattan said MP3tunes and Robertson did not violate the federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in permitting downloads, except as to songs specifically identified as having been pirated.In essence, the judge said it was users rather than MP3tunes that were responsible for any infringements. But the court did find the defendants liable for “contributory” copyright infringement for songs where notices of alleged infringement were provided.The judge had also said Robertson was liable for having personally transferred songs from unauthorized websites. The copyright case is still pending before the Southern District of New York court.Based in San Diego, California, MP3tunes was launched in 2005 by Robertson three years after stepping down as CEO of MP3.com, which was also founded by him.MP3tunes had filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 code, which envisages liquidation of a company’s operation. In the court filing, the company had listed out assets of about $7,800 and liabilities of $2.1 million.The bankruptcy case is MP3tunes Inc, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Case No. 12-06037-MM7, Southern District of California.Copyright case is Capital Records Inc et al v. MP3tunes LLC et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 07-09931.(Reporting by Sakthi Prasad in Bangalore; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
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Discover Yahoo! With Your FriendsExplore news, videos, and much more based on what your friends are reading and watching. Publish your own activity and retain full control.To get started, firstLogin with FacebookYOUR FRIENDS’ ACTIVITYprevnextIs This the Weirdest iPad Speaker Stand Ever? [HANDS ON]By Peter Pachal | Mashable – 7 hrs agoEver wished your iPad had a kickstand so you could stand it up on a counter and use it as a small TV?[More from Mashable: Cadillac Lets You Test Drive Your New Car From an iPad]Bang & Olufsen hears you. Its new BeoPlay A3 iPad speaker dock is ideal for doing just that.The A3 — released under the company’s new consumer brand, B&O Play — is more than just a regular kickstand. The wedge-shaped speaker dock grips your iPad by the edge, and you can stand it up in either portrait or landscape orientations.[More from Mashable: Google Could Face $10 Million Fine For Tracking Safari Users]You can even rest the tablet facing upward, and the dock will give it a slight slant — ideal if it’s in your lap and you want to type directly on the touchscreen.It also boasts a feature called Adaptive Stereo Orientation, which adjust the sound based on how you hold it. The A3 is equipped with three tweeters, and whichever two are working at any given moment is determined by the built-in accelerometer.We played around with the A3 for a bit, flipping it this way and that. We were pleased to find there is absolutely no delay in the audio when it re-orients itself.The product itself has a very unusual shape, all edges and triangular surfaces. That’s to give us as many ways to use it as possible — but it also gives the BeoPlay A3 a funky design, almost sci-fi retro. It’s a little on the heavy side, but any decent speaker would need to be.SEE ALSO: 5 Classy Speaker Docks to Boost Your iPad’s AudioTo our ears, sound from the A3 was miles ahead of the iPad’s built-in speaker. Still, as a battery-operated device, it has limits to how loud it can play.You’ll be able to hear it across your kitchen, but this isn’t room-filling sound. Bang & Olufsen rates it at five hours of playback (presumably at “typical” volumes), and it’ll charge your iPad if you plug it in.Before you mount your iPad in the dock, you’ll need to wrap the edge in a provided bumper. Two are provided — one for the first iPad, and another that fits both the iPad 2 and the new iPad. It’ll be available at the end of May for $549.Besides the BeoPlay A3, Bang & Olufsen also debuted the BeoPlay V1 TV. Available in 32-inch ($3,249) and 42-inch ($3,999) sizes, the TV is equipped with wireless capabilities for displaying content from your phone or tablet. It also has an alcove in back that can hold an Apple TV box for easy storage.With B&O Play, Bang & Olufsen hopes to reach a younger, more connected kind of customer. It launched the brand’s first product at CES, an iPhone/iPad speaker called the BeoLit 12.Although the company wouldn’t say how many of those speakers it’s sold, it did say that 70% of the customers were new to Bang & Olufsen.What do you think of B&O Play’s latest offering? Let us know in the comments.Bang & Olufsen BeoPlay A3The BeoPlay A3 iPad speaker ($549) has a wedge shape so you can stand it up vertically, horizontally, or facing upwards with a slight tilt.Click here to view this gallery.This story originally published on Mashable here.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Cash, coins and credit cards are so Twentieth Century.At least, that’s the opinion of the electronics manufacturers, phone companies, banks and credit card issuers that expect cellphones to be the main way consumers pay for purchases in the not-so-distant future.The trouble is, that vision-of-tomorrow is somewhat blurry, as evidenced at the U.S. cellphone industry trade show held this week in New Orleans. There are a lot of ideas, but little agreement.The stakes, however, are high.”Eighty-five percent of the world’s transactions are still made with cash and checks. We have a wonderful opportunity to convert those,” said Gary Flood, MasterCard’s president of global products and solutions, in a keynote speech at the show.One concept that gets a lot of attention is the “digital wallet” — a virtual repository for our credit card numbers, receipts, coupons. It’s not much different from a PayPal account, which can be linked to different cards. A lot of companies see the wallet as the key to influence in the world of mobile payments, especially if it sits on a cellphone, not just on a PC. Google introduced its Wallet last year. It’s available on a few phones that can be tapped against certain payment terminals to complete a payment.Andrew Lorentz, a lawyer at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP who works with the payments industry, said at the show that if he had a dime for every digital wallet that’s been announced, he’d be rich.”I can have more wallets than cards,” he said.At the show, MasterCard announced a service that could speed up wallet proliferation even more. The company’s idea is to let any company that wants to set up its own wallet.”The idea behind this is: How do we get more wallets and more innovation?” said Ed Olebe, MasterCard’s senior vice president of e-commerce development.Consumers trust their banks, he said, and might want to keep their cards in a bank-branded wallet. Banks, meanwhile, want to extend their relationships with customers, tying them closer. Stores may also want their own wallets, taking the step up from issuing loyalty and credit cards.MasterCard’s wallet, revealed at the show, will be live this fall and ready for purchases on Barnes & Noble’s website and through the American Airlines phone app. Instead of entering credit card numbers, users on those sites will be able to tap a button, jump to their wallets, pick a card and check out.A crucial question is what information the wallet issuer will be able to see about a consumer’s transactions. There’s valuable information there that could be used to target marketing offers or for loyalty programs. MasterCard is still working out those details, Olebe said.”There’s a myriad of laws and rules we have to apply,” he said. “We don’t want to push the envelope on that.”There’s no guarantee that MasterCard’s wallets will work on phones for tap-to-pay transactions at the register, either. MasterCard is taking a “wait and see” approach to that, Olebe said.MasterCard competitor Visa is more bullish about tap-to-pay phones. It has an online wallet like MasterCard, but also a wallet application designed to work on smartphones with built-in Near-Field Communications, which enables tap-to-pay transactions. But so far, the few smartphones in U.S. stores that have NFC chips work only with Google’s Wallet. What’s holding Visa and others back, said John Partridge, the president of Visa, is that the U.S. phone companies have to allow the banks to load cards for use on phones.Naturally, the phone companies have their own ideas about how digital payments will look in the future. Sprint Nextel Corp. is collaborating with Google and its Wallet, while the rest of the Big 4 national wireless carriers, Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile USA, have formed a consortium to create their own wallet.The phone companies are “earnestly trying to adapt to the new ecosystem,” said Bill Greenwell, the CEO of BilltoMobile. “”But there’s certainly friction on the legal side and the business side.”His company lets people pay for things through their phones and have the charges appear on their phone bills.Visa is getting a break at the Summer Olympics in London, where athletes and VIPs will be using the NFC-equipped Samsung Galaxy S III phones with prepaid Visa cards already loaded to make payments.While paying for things with phones is still in its infancy, accepting payments with phones is already easy. VeriFone Systems Inc., the largest maker of credit-card terminals in the U.S., announced “Sail” at the show. It’s a thumbs-sized card reader that plugs into a smartphone, letting anyone who sets up an account accept credit-card payments. It’s VeriFone’s answer to similar products from financial software-maker Intuit Inc. and startup Square, already in use in New Orleans taxi cabs.Much like its competitors, VeriFone will send the card readers out for free by mail to anyone who signs up, and will charge 2.7 percent of the amount of any transaction, or less if the user pays monthly fees.VeriFone’s unique advantage is that its phone-based card readers can be combined with more full-featured smartphone jackets that accept chip-based cards, or full-blown payment terminals, said Dave Talach, VeriFone’s vice president of strategic development.VeriFone’s latest terminals are by default capable of accept tap-to-pay transactions, unlike the previous generation. But it will take time for these terminals to replace the old ones. Stores switch them out after three to five years, Talach estimates. That’s down from a five-to-seven year cycle earlier, but ponderous compared to the pace of the cellphone world, where a phone is outdated after a year.”The industry doesn’t move as fast as I’d like it to,” Talach said.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nasdaq OMX Group Inc is looking forward to a spike in the number of companies going public in the near term as they look to take advantage of the market buzz created by Facebook’s listing next week, an executive at Nasdaq said on Thursday.Facebook aims to raise about $10.6 billion, dwarfing the coming-out parties of tech companies like Google Inc and granting it a market value of up to $96 billion – rivaling Amazon.com Inc’s.”Facebook is obviously the most anticipated IPO in history and once that IPO comes out, I’m sure we’ll see several companies look to take advantage of that market,” Bruce Aust, executive vice president of Nasdaq’s Global Corporate Client Group, said in a presentation to analysts.There are currently 109 companies that plan to go public on Nasdaq this year and have already filed with regulators. Many of those companies had planned to go public last year, but held off because of the volatile market, Aust said.New U.S. listings on Nasdaq fell to 151 last year from 195 the year before as investor confidence slumped on U.S. and European debt problems and markets shed gains in the latter half of the year.Aust added that there are between 200 and 300 companies that have not yet filed with regulators to go public that could do so within the next six to 12 months. Many of them are located in Silicon Valley, he said.”I go out there pretty much every other week because it is a huge opportunity when we look at what’s going on with social media, what’s going on with Apple and the applications and the ecosystem that is being created by that, and the gaming industry that is being created by social media.”"There is just tremendous opportunity and we’re meeting with 20 or 30 companies a week.”Nasdaq, which is home to the likes of Apple Inc and Google, has faced fierce competition from NYSE Euronext in recent years in the battle for marquee tech names.(Reporting by John McCrank; editing by Matthew Lewis)
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Less for your money? Ink cartridges really are getting smaller over time
Consumers are getting less for their money than they did just two years agoWithout a doubt, printer ink is worth its weight in gold — or, at least, that’s what you’d think given how expensive the stuff is when you’re buying it in the store. But are you actually getting less ink today in those cartridges than you were just two years ago? It appears that may very well be the case, at least when it comes to HP ink.All ink cartridges contain something known as a hydrophobic sponge that can absorb ink, but not water. That sponge is key in preventing the ink in a cartridge from mixing with water when humidity is high.The U.K.’s HP Ink Cartridges blog — an independent retailer — recently did an experiment where they sawed off the tops of different HP ink cartridges to see exactly what was inside. When an HP 350 cartridge with a manufacturing date of January 2010 was put side by side with the same model from 2012, the size of the sponge had shrunk to nearly half its original size. And the sponge size of a 2012 HP 301 cartridge was even 40% smaller than the 2012 HP 350.Tecca attempted to get to the bottom of the issue with Hewlett Packard, requesting clarification on exactly how much less ink modern cartridges contain as compared to ones produced two years ago. HP has not yet replied at the time of publication.The HP Ink Cartridges blog has yet to do the math on exactly how the size of the hydrophobic sponge relates to the amount of ink contained in the cartridge, and it’s worth noting that the fact there’s 50% less sponge doesn’t necessarily mean there’s also 50% less ink. Still, even if the only thing shrinking is the size of the sponge, that still represents a significant reduction in HP’s costs — savings that don’t appear to be getting passed along to the consumer.Frustrated? We don’t blame you. Given that ink is unlikely to get cheaper any time soon, it may very well be time to consider whether making the switch to a laser printer is the right move for your wallet. Or better yet — ditch the printer entirely and embrace the paperless office of the future.[Image credit: HP Ink Cartridges blog]This article was written by Fox Van Allen and originally appeared on TeccaMore from Tecca:43 ways technology can help you save money
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Bing to duel Google with Facebook-friendly format
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft’s Bing search engine is heading in a new direction as it drills deeper into Facebook’s social network and Twitter’s messaging service to showcase information unlikely to be found on Google.The changes, unveiled Thursday, will reshape how Bing displays its search results. It represents Microsoft’s most dramatic shift in Internet search since the software maker introduced Bing as a “decision engine” nearly three years ago.Microsoft Corp. is counting on the new format to loosen Google’s stranglehold on the lucrative Internet search market. In the process, Microsoft hopes to turn a profit in its online division, which has lost more than $6.3 billion since Bing’s June 2009 debut.Bing replaced “Live Search,” a mostly futile attempt to challenge Google. Microsoft touted Bing as a Google alternative that would provide more meaningful results by helping people make important decisions, such as picking a doctor and finding the best time to buy an airline ticket.For the past two years, Bing has been taking advantage of Microsoft’s close relationship with Facebook to tap into the personal data on the world’s largest network. But it hasn’t come up with an approach compelling enough to lure away most Web surfers from Google.Although Bing has been far more successful than Live Search, virtually all of its gains have come at the expense of Yahoo Inc., which began relying on Microsoft’s search technology in 2010 as part of a 10-year partnership between the companies.The latest effort to challenge Google will start next month. Microsoft plans a marketing blitz on television and the Internet to promote the changes. Anyone seeking a peek during the next few weeks of testing can go to http://www.bing.com/new beginning Tuesday.The revised system presents Bing’s results in three columns, or panes.The left column will feature the familiar blue links drawn from Bing’s computer formula for finding the most relevant results.The middle section, called “Snapshot,” is reserved for completing tasks, such as getting directions, making a hotel reservation or buying movie tickets. This feature isn’t expected to be available during the testing phase.Once available, Snapshot will provide a space featuring movie show times and an option to buy tickets in response to a search for “The Avengers.” Searches for hotels will bring up pictures of rooms and information on amenities, as well as the ability to make reservations.The “Sidebar” column on the far right side will be the centerpiece of the new Bing.Sidebar is where Bing users logged into Facebook will see recommendations culled from their Facebook network. From there, people will be able to post on friends’ Facebook pages without leaving the results page. The results from a Bing search can even be shared on friends’ Facebook pages with a question about the topic.For instance, a search for “Kauai hotels” might list your Facebook friends who have been to the island. You can then use the Sidebar box to posting a note on a friend’s page seeking advice.The Sidebar column also will highlight relevant tweets, including those from people you might not follow. The feature will also suggest experts on topics related to certain search requests and list their Twitter handles, along with any blogs or other websites where they share their insights.Most of the personal data that Bing is pulling from Facebook and Twitter is unavailable to Google because its search engine doesn’t have the same access to those information-sharing hubs as Microsoft does.”This is a big, bold bet that we think is going to surprise a lot of people,” said Lisa Gurry, Bing’s senior director. “It’s a fundamentally different way of looking at search.”It’s also an admission by Bing that its previous attempts to incorporate Facebook data into its search results haven’t worked out.For the past year, Bing has been customizing search results based on the recommendations expressed by the number of times a user’s Facebook network had pressed a “like” button on topics related to a search request. Gurry said Bing discovered that most Web surfers don’t want the results influenced by their friends to be co-mingled with answers generated by a computer program.That culminated in the decision create Sidebar so a separate area of the results page is devoted to the social networking suggestions.Bing’s experience underscores the difficulty that all search engines have had figuring out how to blend the influence of social networking into their results, said Altimeter Group analyst Rebecca Lieb.”Different parts of the social graph are good for different reasons,” she said. “When I am looking for advice about a movie, I probably don’t want to see a recommendation from one of my ‘foodie’ friends. What Bing is doing looks like a very elegant approach, but it remains to be seen if people are going to like it.”Lieb doesn’t believe it’s a coincidence that Bing is announcing its Facebook-friendly makeover as the world’s largest social network prepares to complete the biggest initial public offering of stock. The media frenzy surrounding Facebook’s IPO, expected next week, can only make more people more curious to see how Bing is highlighting results from the social network, Lieb said.Microsoft has been working closely with Facebook since it bought a 1.6 percent stake in the social network for $240 million in 2007. It has proven to be a tremendous investment. Microsoft’s Facebook stake is now worth $900 million to $1.2 billion, depending on the price set in the IPO. And now Bing can pore through the reams of information being posted by Facebook’s more than 900 million users, 18 times more the social network had when Microsoft bought its stake.Twitter also has been selling Microsoft expanded access to its tweets since 2009. Google Inc. lost its special privileges to the same stream of data last summer because Twitter didn’t renew a licensing agreement.That partnership unraveled right around the same time Google launched its Plus social network to counter the growing popularity of Facebook and Twitter. In a move that has amplified questions about its objectivity, Google began this year to favor results drawn from Plus while excluding publicly available information from Facebook and Twitter.The bias has provided more fodder for an intensifying Federal Trade Commission investigation into allegations that Google has been stifling competition by highlighting its own services and burying or completely ignoring links to its rivals’ websites.Despite Microsoft’s massive investments in search, Bing hasn’t been able to ding Google so far. Microsoft has nearly doubled the 8 percent share of the U.S. search market that it held when it rolled out Bing, but virtually all of those gains have come at the expense of Yahoo Inc.Google ended March with a 66 percent share of the U.S. search market, up by a percentage point from June 2009 when Bing entered the fray, according to the research firm comScore Inc. Bing’s share currently a distant second at 15 percent.Unlike its rival, Bing intends to include relevant recommendations from a wide range of social networking services, including Google Plus.”We are not trying to build an empire by favoring some services over others,” Gurry said.
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Bing to duel Google with Facebook-friendly format
