In mid 2008, amid growing evidence, NVIDIA acknowledged that a significant number of its previous-generation GPUs (graphics processing unit) and MCPs (media and communications processors) for notebooks are failing at higher-than-normal rates. For readers who are not aware of this story, TheAppleBlog...

" According to a new study, of the 13m songs available for sale on the internet last year, more than 10m failed to find a single buyer.   The research, conducted by the MCPS-PRS's Will Page and Andrew Bud, brings us that much closer to proving Sturgeon's Law – that 90% of everyt...

Today I “met” someone via Twitter. Dallas W.Taylor. The Dallas Taylor, as in “Crosby Stills Nash and Young Dallas Taylor and Greg Reeves“. The Dallas Taylor who played drums on that album shown above (Deja Vu),  on the first album Crosby Stills and Nash, on the first Stephen...

Last week the fifth Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm continued its theme of business model innovation at the intersection of telecoms, media and technology by welcoming back Will Page, Chief Economist at the MCPS PRS Alliance, a copyright collection society that represents over 50,000 songwriters and ...

An Interview With Kerchoonz Co-founder And Scotland-based, Singer-songwriter Indiana Gregg (part 1 Of 2) Imagine working for years developing your music career. You've released several albums, signed with an indie label, inked licensing deals, and received love from the press and radio, all while yo...

Selling Radiohead's OK Computer for $1.99, as Amazon.com is doing, strikes me as a good way to combat free. Recent titles in the $1.99 bin have been Beirut's Gulag Orkestra (still on sale) and Inxs' Kick. For $1.99 I'm sure some people would rather buy it than dig up the CD and rip the songs to thei...

Last night was Sarah Palin Night in St. Paul.  Keynoter Rudy Giuliani was followed by Sarah.  Rudy made the case why Barack Obama is not his idea of a President, and why Sarah Palin is up to the task of being VP--stressing executive decision-making; he also let fly with zingers: Change is ...

Tessa you think you are very pretty meh? Please lar, look at urself in the mirror! What do you see? A PIG! Imagine a world without Revlon, without L`oreal! You will look like shit and you know it! Your pretty face currently is just a facade! Well, to this I really got to argue it out. To everyone wi...

All those American Idol wannabees on YouTube may serve an economic purpose: They help boost royalties for songwriters, according to a British report. "The trend for posting self-made videos is driving the number of performances on the websites we license," said Andrew Shaw, managing direct...

UK digital royalties to composers, songwriters and music publishers have grown quickly since last year, while those from physical sales are still dropping off. Half-year results from the MCPS-PRS royalty collector showed payouts from online services up 40 percent in the first half of the year, from ...