Entertainment

Universal Music Group will test selling music free of DRM technology, and it plans to make the tracks available through RealNetworks' Rhapsody service and other outlets -- but not through the iTunes Music Store. Universal becomes the second major record label after EMI to begin offering music withou...

Blockbuster will buy film download site Movielink, a bid by the largest video and DVD rental chain to assure it remains a key player in distribution of movies even when DVDs become less prevalent. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Blockbuster has been known to have been in talks with Movi...

A federal judge has handed Microsoft a huge victory in years-old patent spat with telecom giant Alcatel-Lucent focusing on how personal computers running Windows play back MP3 music files, setting aside a $1.5 billion jury award granted after the software giant was found to have infringed on two dig...

Arming for battle in the digital music space, Amazon.com has invested in a startup that attempts to blend digital music sales with social networking. AmieStreet.com, a digital music store that prices music based on its popularity among visitors to the site, said Amazon was the lead investor in its f...

EMI Group, the UK-based record label that is awaiting a takeover by a private equity firm, posted lower revenue for its second quarter as CD sales plunged but indicated its DRM-free music experiment with iTunes is off to a fast start. EMI's revenue was down 5.1 percent overall, in line with its own ...

A tech association representing such industry stalwarts as Google and Microsoft is taking aim at what it sees as a stealth campaign to intimidate consumers from exercising their fair use rights with respect to copyrighted material. The Computer & Communications Industry Association has filed a c...

Time Warner's profits for the second quarter were up about 5.2 percent, thanks largely to the strength of its cable division, the company reported Wednesday. Net profit for the quarter was $1.067 billion, or 28 cents per share, up from $1.014 billion, or 24 cents per share, a year earlier, the compa...

AT&T wireless customers gained a new way to get music Tuesday, when the company announced a new, over-the-air download service with eMusic. Currently available only on the Samsung a717 and a727 as well as new versions of the Samsung SYNC and the Nokia N75 handsets, the AT&T Mobile Music serv...

AT&T wireless customers gained a new way to get music Tuesday, when the company announced a new, over-the-air download service with eMusic. Currently available only on the Samsung a717 and a727 as well as new versions of the Samsung SYNC and the Nokia N75 handsets, the AT&T Mobile Music serv...

AT&T wireless customers gained a new way to get music Tuesday, when the company announced a new, over-the-air download service with eMusic. Currently available only on the Samsung a717 and a727 as well as new versions of the Samsung SYNC and the Nokia N75 handsets, the AT&T Mobile Music serv...

Sirius Satellite Radio further shrunk its net loss in the second quarter, thanks in large part to 561,493 new subscribers and a revenue growth of 51 percent over the same quarter a year ago, the company reported Tuesday. Revenue reached $226.4 million, while the number of subscribers rose to 7.1 mil...

Google and YouTube are planning to unveil copyright protection technology that goes above and beyond what some observers think is even possible. A Google lawyer told a judge that Google it is creating a database of video "fingerprints" and a system that will match them against uploaded clips to scre...

XM Satellite Radio posted second-quarter results that showed it managed to stem the flow of red ink that has dogged the company, thanks in part to strong gains in sales of new cars equipped with the technology. XM lost $175.7 million, or 57 cents a share, in the quarter that ended in June, compared ...

XM Satellite Radio's cofounder and longtime Chief Executive Officer Hugh Panero will vacate the CEO post in August. XM did not immediately name a full-time replacement, instead saying it would use its second quarter earnings conference call scheduled for Thursday morning to outline its plans for the...

TiVo will introduce a new DVR device in mid-August that will retail for $299, about $500 less than its higher-end Series 3 released last fall. In addition to being more affordable than its predecessor, the device, TiVo HD, will have the capability to replace the box through which users currently acc...