Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
4:55 PM ET, April 2, 2007

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
emigroup.com:
EMI Music launches DRM-free superior sound quality downloads across its entire digital repertoire  —  EMI Group CEO Eric Nicoli today hosted a press conference at EMI's headquarters in London where he announced that EMI Music is launching DRM-free superior quality downloads across …
RELATED:
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
EMI, Apple partner on DRM-free premium music  —  update EMI Group will soon sell digital music with better sound quality and no digital rights management restrictions through Apple's iTunes Store.  —  EMI's entire music catalog will be available in premium DRM-free form via iTunes in May …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
EMI, Apple To Sell DRM-Free Music for $1.29/song  —  Update: MP3 file of the press call is here.  —  April 2, 2007: The day DRM died.  —  The surprise press conference in London today with today EMI CEO Eric Nicoli and Apple CEO Steve Jobs just started a few minutes ago (1 pm London time).
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Steve Jobs and EMI present "an exciting new digital offering" — live!  —  So what will it be: DRM-free music downloads, the Beatles on iTunes, both or something else entirely?  We'll see shortly as things are about to kickoff in London for EMI's and Apple's announcement of "an exciting new digital offering."
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
iTunes Store will sell ENTIRE EMI CATALOG DRM-free!!  11!  1ONE!  —  Hallelujah!  Apple and EMI just announced that they will be selling DRM-free Apple songs through the iTunes Music Store.  The songs will cost 130 percent of the price of the existing crippled songs, and you'll get to choose.
Discussion: Gadget Lab and John Palfrey
USA Today:
EMI will sell songs without copy protection on iTunes  —  Apple and EMI Music shook up the music industry Monday by announcing plans to sell more than 150,000 digital songs without copy protection.  —  The songs — from Coldplay, Norah Jones, and other artists on the giant EMI record label — can be freely copied.
Discussion: Gear Live
AppleInsider:   Jobs talks new iTunes functions, DRM and video, iPod storage [transcript]
Thomas Crampton / New York Times:   EMI Dropping Copy Limits on Online Music
Robert Andrews / paidContent.org:
EMI Drops DRM For New Premium Line-Up, Higher Price; Apple First
Discussion: Apple 2.0 and MoCoNews
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:   EMI, Apple Remove Music's Copy Locks
Eliot Van Buskirk / Gadget Lab:
Will Your MP3 Player Support Apple/EMI's AAC Files?
Thomas Crampton / New York Times:
Speculation Is in the Air Over EMI and Apple
Discussion: Furdlog, Podcasting News and Coolfer
MacNN:
Norwegian official applauds Apple, EMI
Discussion: Infinite Loop and Apple 2.0
Jane Wardell / Associated Press:   EMI, Apple to Sell DRM-Free Songs Online
Michael Gartenberg:   DRM Free Music from Apple and EMI Isn't Likely to Help Other Players
Bilal Hameed / Startup Meme:
The Empire of DRM is Falling, EMI First Soldier Down
Discussion: Idolator and Urs Technica
Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
Update/Joint Statement with Chris Locke  —  Chris Locke and I agreed to publish a statement, together (both in our own words) in advance of the story which will appear tomorrow (Monday, April 2) on CNN, at 7:20 AM (EST) on "CNN American Morning", and throughout the day on other CNN shows.
RELATED:
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Topix reinvents itself as citizen journalist site  —  Topix is reinventing itself from a software-based news aggregator site to a citizen journalist hub where anyone can submit news and photos and sign up to be a volunteer editor selecting featured stories.  —  The site also has redesigned …
Discussion: Webware.com
RELATED:
Skrenta / Topix.net Weblog:
Reinventing Topix: Topix.Com(munity)
Karen / Official Google Blog:
About the New Orleans imagery in Google Maps and Earth  —  Posted by John Hanke, Director, Google Maps/Local/Earth  —  This weekend, there has been a lot of discussion about our imagery of New Orleans in Google Maps and Google Earth.  I thought I'd give you some background that may clear things up …
USA Today:
Music games won't be solo gigs anymore  —  Guitar Hero was just the opening act.  MTV and the developers of that video game have a headliner in the works called Rock Band, which lets four music lovers gig together in person or online.  —  Expected in stores for the year-end holidays …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Now roll your own MVNO  —  How many virtual mobile operators does the world need?  Ask Juha Christensen, former head of Microsoft's mobile division and a founder of Symbian, and his answer would be: as many as you can think of.  —  Christensen has a new start-up, Sonopia …
RELATED:
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
With Sonopia, you too can be a telecom mogul
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Hoping to Move Guitar Notations Into the Legal Sunshine  —  IF budding guitarists fail to master "Stairway to Heaven" in the coming months, they can no longer blame the music publishers.  —  Because of an agreement in March between MusicNotes, an online music publisher and the Harry Fox Agency …
Discussion: Techdirt and The Trademark Blog
Tribune Company Press Releases:
Tribune to Go Private for $34 Per Share  —  Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Created  —  Sam Zell to Invest, Join Board  —  Chicago Cubs and Comcast SportsNet Interest to be Sold  —  With the completion of its strategic review process, Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB) …
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Search Funnies: The April Fool's 2007 Roundup  —  April Fools Day was yesterday, and the search engines along with others in the search world, went all out.  Here is a roundup of the different pranks played.  — TiSP: Google Flushes Free Wireless Broadband For All was on every blog and technology news site yesterday.
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Warner's Digital Watchdog Widens War on Pirates  —  Hollywood studios spend millions every year trying to get people to watch their movies.  At Warner Brothers Entertainment, Darcy Antonellis is trying to get them to stop watching — illegally, that is.  —  Ms. Antonellis oversees …
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 4:55 PM ET, April 2, 2007.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Tribe AI:
Is AI just hype?  —  Find out how top enterprises use Tribe to get real business results.
Techmeme Leaderboards:
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more  —  We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics.  Download reports immediately for just $100.
Zoho:
Authy killed their desktop apps.  Time to switch to a reliable authenticator.  Time to switch to Zoho OneAuth.  —  Twilio's Authy recently announced end of life (EOL) for their desktop apps on March 19, 2024—five months ahead of schedule.
Comprehensive.io:
Browse salary data from 3,000 startups for free  —  Click for FREE, immediate access to real-time compensation benchmarking data.  Paid version helps HR automate comp reviews and communicate total compensation to employees.
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Techmeme Mobile: for phones
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on X
Techmeme on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Steven Levy / Newsweek:
Twitter: Is Brevity The Next Big Thing?
Discussion: Cost Per News
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Y Combinator Startup News - a better Digg, Reddit, Netscape? w/video!
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Motorola sponsoring attempt at 'world's highest cellphone call'
Discussion: BBC
Blake Robinson / TechCrunch:
Davidville, Inc. Tumbles Into the Spotlight with Tumblr
Ellen Messmer / Network World:
Fortify identifies JavaScript vulnerability in AJAX apps
Discussion: Burningbird
Chris Linnett / Search Engine Land:
Local Search: More Is Not Always Better
Discussion: Screenwerk
 Earlier Items: 
Microsoft:
Microsoft Enables New Ways to Deploy Windows Vista
Discussion: One Microsoft Way
Royal Pingdom:
Downtime in 2007 for the 20 most popular websites
Discussion: GigaOM
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Newsmaker: Ron Jeremy sticks it to tech sector
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
WashingtonPost launches online/offline loyalty program
Alex Mindlin / New York Times:
Peer-to-Peer Downloaders Gorge on Songs
Discussion: CrunchGear
MarketWatch:
Google joins race to buy DoubleClick: report
Think Secret:
Leopard leaping in June
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
Sister Sites:

Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page