Artists bid for CD parity on digital royalties

Music managers are meeting in Manchester today to launch a campaign for bands and solo artists to receive a greater share of income from music downloads stores, specifically Apple's iTunes. According to the Music Managers Forum, artists receive just 4.5p, 5. ...more

AOL brings conference calls and presentations to AIM chat

AOL is to introduce premium services to its popular AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) service which will be targetted at business users. AIM Business Services is said to support audio conference calls and allow users to share presentations over the Internet. The service has been launched in conjunction with California-based WebEx Communications Inc which allows customers to share applications such as Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop and video over the Internet. ...more

ATI displays 3D graphic support for mobile phones

ATI is trying to extend the multimedia possibilities for mobile phones with its new IMAGEON 2300 graphics co-processor. Specifically targeted at gaming, the chipset supports a 3D graphics engine and is designed to raise the bar from simplistic game designs. Features of the IMAGEON 2300 include MPEG 4 decoding with real-time video playback at 30-frames/sec, video capture ports with support for 1. ...more

Sun shines on standard Java 5.0

There's a new version of Java and Sun describes it as the most significant update ever to the platform-neutral programming language. Hyperbole surely - wouldn't that be the move to Java 2 (JDK 1.2) back in December 1998? Nonetheless, the Standard Edition (SE) of Sun's Java platform has evolved to version 5. ...more

BBC opens its archive to downloaders and mixers

BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra have released nearly 100 programme extracts from the BBC archives. They are made freely available to the British public to use under the terms of the newly introduced Creative Archive Licence. The Creative Archive Licence (CAL) is the brainchild of the BBC, the BFI, Channel 4 and the Open University and other members of the Creative Archive Licence Group to make their content - whether it be video, audio or images - available for download. ...more