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IIP is almost online

After more than 10 months of design and development we finally see the end of the tunnel. The guys from our tech teams have worked hard to get to the point where our vision becomes tangible and music companies can license their music to any channel in any format and keep control over their assets and distribution channels without having to employ an aggregator or digital service provider. Imagine you own music and you want to sell that music through all the channels on the internet that offer music to consumers and the # of channels is more than one thousend worldwide and about to grow to thousands. Their are many different models to get paid for your music: ala carte downloads (iTUNES, MSN music etc.), subscription based services (Rhapsody, Yahoo etc.), Podcast networks, Digital radio, recomandation services (Pandora, Last.FM etc.) Advertising based models (Spiral Frog etc.) and there are many different formats: MP3, AAC, MP4 etc etc. All services require different delivery specifications how on earth can you manage that without loosing control? IIP > FUGA will be born soon.

Apple's Jobs doesn't see threats to iPod - report

NEW YORK, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) doesn't expect the iPod media player to be hurt by Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Zune, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in a magazine interview. >> REUTERS

Gotshrimp >> I agree with Steve. MSFT hasn't been able to come up with a compelling media experience. I beleive the reason is the lack of inspiration from a user point of view. Apple has created the standard, the minimum requirement of a good service and device or vise versa ;-) So keep it simple and slowly build the experience to a more compelling one would my advise be. I love to see the market developing just as we thought two years ago..

Yes why, I like movie film, but got kicked out for the board of FOX

Digital rights management remains a big issue