On February 10th, Paul Kedrosky wrote an editorial for The Wall Street Journal in which he questioned Steve Jobs’ claims that DRM-free music distribution is in the best interests of the record labels. He feels that it is a big risk for the labels and that Apple should instead ...

When Wal-Mart recently decided to sell movies as digital downloads, they turned to Hewlett-Packard. Willem DeZoete is the vice president in charge of digital entertainment services for HP. He tells us how his video merchant services functions as the ASP for Wal-Mart, and can do so for ...

Recently a Belgian court ruled that merely by posting headlines from Belgian newspapers, the Google search engine was violating copyrights in that country. In the U.S., the process is thought to qualify under the fair use exemption. Jim Burger is a copyright attorney with Dow Lohnes. He joins ...

YouTube recently licensed music and vintage television programs (shows like “I Spy” and “My Favorite Martian”) from Digital Music Group. Internet viewers will be able to watch and hear these shows as advertising-supported programming at YouTube. Mitch Koulouris of Digital Music Group spoke with us about the deal.

Steve Jobs recently stirred up the music world by encouraging the record labels to sell music without DRM. To get an independent opinion on the concept, we talked with Mike Goodman, the manager of digital entertainment services at market research firm The Yankee Group.

Recently, the Wall Street Journal reported on the growing influence of Web sites like Digg. For example, last summer a popular Digg contributor commented favorably on a family-friendly social networking site called famster.com, thereby causing traffic to skyrocket at the site. Kristin Criss, is Famster’s vice president of ...

While much has been written about Apple’s iPhone, this interview provides a review by a professional market research analyst. Avi Greengrat specializes in the mobile telephone market for Current Analysis. He previously worked for Jupiter Research and, prior to that, Intel.

Part two of Telespan Founder Elliot Gold’s predictions abou the electronic conferencing market for the coming year. Gold has a pretty good record of success with his annual predictions. Check out Part One here.

Each January for the past 12 years, Telespan has provided ten predictions about the electronic conferencing market for the ensuing year. The firm’s founder, Elliot Gold, claims a 75 percent accuracy rate over the full 12 years. Telespan is one of the oldest market research firms specializing in ...

Jason Van Orden is a podcast consultant and the author of Promoting Your Podcast: The Ultimate Guide to Building An Audience of Raving Fans. He shares his ideas with us and tells us why he thinks Apple is both the best and worst thing to happen to podcasting.

A number of venture capitalists and investment bankers complain that securities regulations adopted after the dot-com bust mean that the U.S. capital markets are now unattractive places to attempt IPOs. Fortune Magazine Senior Writer Adam Lashinsky disagrees.

The major record labels would like to combat piracy on college campuses via peer-to-peer networks. Ruckus Network has been authorized by major record labels to offer a catalog of nearly 2.5 million tracks for free to anyone with a dot-edu email address. Mike Bebel, Ruckus CEO, discusses these ...

Ultimately, consumers want to enjoy Internet video on their televisions as well as their computers, but most don’t want to string new wires through their homes. Apple TV answers this problem by using Wi-Fi. The Power Line networking, using the electrical wires already in your home, however, may ...

Since Microsoft Vista requires Windows users to relearn their computers, Tom Evslin thinks Apple has a great opportunity to license the Mac OS to PC manufactures. Tom sold his first company to Microsoft, developed Exchange Server, and later founded, took public, and sold a VoIP company. Today he is ...

Remember the “teleputer”? That’s the device that George Gilder predicted years ago. Now that we’ve had a look at Apple’s forthcoming iPhone, it looks like Gilder’s vision may come true. What will the combination of an iPhone and the planned Apple TV mean for consumers? Find out, with ...

The first amendment has always been nettlesome, but a thriving online community of bloggers is proof that excercising constitutional freedoms can be healthy and profitable. Blogs they also have a tendency to rock the boat, raising new challenges for corporations — and the courts — to navigate. This case began ...

Do you remember the first time you heard of Google? It’s probably hard for many of us to remember the Internet before the advent of the now-giant search company, but there was a time when Google’s brand wasn’t fully developed. David Cheriton is professor of computer science at Stanford University, ...

Successes like YouTube and MySpace are standout examples of the kind of enthusiasm that the market — and venture funds — have had for all things Web 2.0. One inevitable side-effect of all this exuberance has been skepticism — especially from the veteran investors who have seen this movie already. ...

Copyright holders are anxious for YouTube to develop an automated way to screen for copyrighted content before it gets posted. Gracenote may be able to help. The company, which originated the CD database, is also developing ways for you to give voice commands to the entertainment system in you ...

For the past year, Starz Entertainment has offered a service called Vongo that lets you download recently released movies to your computer. Now Starz lets you stream those movies from your computer to your television. Bob Greene, who is a Starz executive vice president, speaks with Inside ...

Most startups don’t pan out. According to findings from Wilfrid Laurier University entrepreneurship professor Dr. Benson Honig, the ones that do succeed tend to have a few key characteristics in common, but you might be surprised to learn what they are. According to Honig, there isn’t much correlation between ...

If you own a video iPod but miss the big screen effect, the MyVu portable electronic display from Micro Optical Corporation could be for you. CEO Kip Kokinakis discusses the market for heads-up electronic displays that you wear like a pair of eyeglasses. MyVu is priced at ...

Jeff is the CEO Rock River Music. Rock River produces compilation music CDs which are sold by companies like Williams-Sonoma, where you can buy CDs of the store background music. The company announced recently that it will produce free podcasts of popular music from Sony, Warner ...

Matt Ragas is editor of The Value Raider Report. A dot-com pioneer, Matt was with Raging Bull, later sold to CMGI. He’s also the author of Lessons From the eFront and The Power of Cult Branding, both from Random House. He spoke about YouTube ...

Microsoft’s Zune came out of the Christmas season with less than 3 percent of the MP3 player market share. Its overall sales rank on Amazon - a recent check showed the various 30 GB Zune models fluctuating between #77 and #512 in Electronics - has put ...