The Change Mariner: Category: Industry - Entertainment

May 10, 2004

'Jesus Is My Homeboy' Becomes Fashion Statement

Rugged Elegance: Driven by the success of "The Passion of the Christ" at the box office, "Jesus Chic" has become the new Hollywood fashion trend. Celebrities such as Madonna, Pamela Anderson and Ashton Kutcher have been recently spotted wearing "Jesus...

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April 25, 2004

Steve Jobs Turns Apple Towards iPod

The New York Times: Stroll the corridors and the atriums on Apple Computer's corporate campus these days and you will notice that something is missing. Gone are the posters and graphics accenting the company's sleek personal computers. In their place,...

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April 20, 2004

Studios Rush to Cash In on DVD Boom

The New York Times: Not since the advent of the videocassette in the mid-1980's has the movie industry enjoyed such a windfall from a new product. And just as video caused a seismic shift two decades ago, the success of...

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April 17, 2004

Christian Music's New Wave

The New York Times: Sales of praise and worship albums have doubled since 2000, to about 12 million in 2003. While music sales over all slumped last year, including Christian music in general, worship music was up 5 percent. A...

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April 7, 2004

Global Music Sales Plummet

Wired News: Global music sales fell 7.6 percent in 2003 to $32 billion, the steepest decline since the advent of the compact disc, the trade body representing the world's largest music companies said on Wednesday. The International Federation of the...

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March 29, 2004

Leisure Pursuits of Today's Young Man

New York Times: The television industry was shaken last October when the ratings from Nielsen Media Research showed that a huge part of a highly prized slice of the American population was watching less television. As the fall TV season...

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February 12, 2004

BitTorrent: The Third Wave of File Sharing

New York Times: Three years later, Mr. [Bram] Cohen, 28, has emerged as the face of the next wave of Internet file sharing. If Napster started the first generation of file-sharing, and services like Kazaa represented the second, then the...

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January 28, 2004

From KFOG to iPod in Less Than 48 Hours

NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, a record company, radio station, recording group and online music store teamed up to achieve a new level of speed to market in the digital realm. The exclusive digital EP...

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January 19, 2004

Online scramble for music downloads

BBC NEWS: A headlong rush is taking place in cyberspace to grab a slice of the potentially lucrative market for legal music downloads. Coca-Cola is the latest to join the fray, launching its own branded online music service with more...

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January 9, 2004

Hewlett Joins With Apple in Music Deal

New York Times: But with those days long gone, the new alliance underscores the feverish deal making going on as computer makers, consumer electronics companies, and content providers all jostle for position in the uncharted territory converging around digital entertainment....

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December 12, 2003

Stephen Jobs' View on TV Downloads: Very Different From Music

RollingStone.com: Q: Lots people who work in the movie business have watched what's happened to the music industry and think they're next. Do you see that? SJ: It is a problem. But movies are very different than music. First of...

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December 6, 2003

Wal-Mart to Flex Muscles in Music Downloads?

ECommerceTimes: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reportedly is looking at beginning to sell digital music downloads by year's end, raising the prospect of new price competition in the online music market. That could significantly reduce the allure of unauthorized free music downloads....

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November 17, 2003

PCs As Heart of Home Entertainment

New York Times: This is not your grandma's PC," said Louis J. Burns, the executive in charge of Intel's desktop computer division. The arrival of the more flexible personal computers, Silicon Valley executives argue, is aimed at permitting the industry...

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November 16, 2003

Sony's New Strategy: Position Content and Electronics for Wireless, Interactive Broadband

TV Week: Sir Howard Stringer sheepishly conceded that his Sony Corp. of America is to blame for the mysterious disappearance this fall of males age 18 to 34 from network television, his old stomping ground. "They are playing on my...

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October 27, 2003

With Cable TV at M.I.T., Who Needs Napster?

New York Times: Two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a system for sharing music within their campus community that they say can avoid the copyright battles that have pitted the music industry against many customers. The...

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September 14, 2003

Fighting Song Piracy the Willie Wonka Way

New York Times: Some musicians try to halt online piracy by turning to lawyers. Others have turned to hackers. The rapper Obie Trice, a prot�g� of Eminem's, is turning to Willie Wonka. To entice fans to buy his new album...

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September 10, 2003

Apple Sells Ten Millionth Song

Apple Press Release (9/8/03): Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over ten million songs from the iTunes� Music Store since its launch just over four months ago, averaging over 500,000 songs per week. The ten millionth...

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The Death of the CD, DVD: RIP

CNN.com: In the 1950s, the revolution was all about rock 'n' roll. The 70s brought punk and disco. And sometime this decade, the rebellion shifted from the music genre to the digital domain. ... "On-demand services are the future of...

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September 3, 2003

Universal Music to Cut CD Prices to Under $13

Yahoo! News: Universal Music Group, the world's largest record company, on Wednesday said it will cut list prices on compact discs by as much as 30 percent in an effort to boost sales that have been stymied by free online...

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August 21, 2003

Laser breakthrough promises longer CDs

ABC Canberra (Australia): Researchers in Canberra and Paris have combined to increase the amount of information able to be stored on CDs and DVDs. Professor Claude Fabre from the University of Paris and Professor Hans Bachor from the Australian National...

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August 14, 2003

Microsoft to launch European music site

Financial Times: Microsoft is stealing a march on rival Apple Computer in the battle for the burgeoning online music market, with the launch in Europe of a pay-as-you-go music-download service modelled on the iTunes service that has been a big...

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May 24, 2003

Chinese aim to build a great wall of sound

Guardian Unlimited: Lisa Movius reports from Shanghai on China's nascent indie music scene: In February 1998, rock critic Fu Chong dropped by the Beijing dive Busy Bee, where he came across a new band. He liked what he saw: the...

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