iTunes may still be the undisputed king of online music, but other contenders are gunning for its crown. Dan Moren summarizes the recent developments in online music and how Universal, Rhapsody, MTV, and even Wal-Mart might hope to muscle their way past iTunes.

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Toshiba announces two new Gigabeat portable media player with the T401 and T401s. The Toshiba Gigabeat T401 features Wi-Fi connectivity. Toshiba managed to make the new Gigabeat player quite thin with 9.9mm. Other features of the T401 include a 2...

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During my commute on the Washington, DC metro, I rarely have enough room to butterfly my newspaper, let alone actually get a seat. Since I can't read law and technology news en route to work, I now listen to it instead. Unsurprisingly, there are numerous high-quality podcasts in these areas.

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Tunes from the EMI and Universal will be offered in mp3 format at a bit-rate of 256kbps (not as good as CD but okay for casual listening), without any software layered in to stop customers giving the music away.

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TORRANCE, Calif.----A leader in developing a wide range of high-quality and cutting-edge video game and iPod/MP3 accessories, dreamGEAR's exponential growth was highlighted in the August 2007 issue of Entrepreneur magazine, which placed them in the top 300 of their "Hot 500" list. dreamGEAR grew 218% between 2002 and 2006 and its estimated growth is 22% in 2007.

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A guide to the leading DRM systems, designed to protect both music and film, which have been cracked.

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Delivering ads to college students via digital screens has been around for awhile. Now there's an expanded network with screens on campus and off campus that offers advertisers an opportunity to reinforce those messages wherever students go throughout their day.

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This week, we'll look at why DreamWorks and Paramount backed HD-DVD, effectively assuring that Blu-ray will lose whether HD-DVD wins or not -- and it may still not win either. Rhapsody picked up the old Microsoft partner MTV, hitting Apple and iTunes where it likely is the most vulnerable.

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The ongoing game of cat and mouse played out between industry and hackers over Digital Rights Management technology.

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ARE you a geek, obsessed with the latest gadgets, yet consider yourself cool and have hundreds of friends? An extreme commuter, whose long journey is turbocharging the caffeine industry? A single woman, who is surprised to be on the shelf but has lots of gay friends?

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