Virgin service lets users stream and keep all the music they want

Shane McGlaun (Blog) - June 15, 2009 11:35 AM
 DailyTech

Universal Music chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge said, "We see this as completely ground breaking. We've listened to our customers, our fans and our artists and we think that this is an opportunity to bring music to a wider audience."

Reuters reports that Virgin Media and Universal Music have announced a new music service that will offer Virgin Media Broadband customers the ability to stream and download to keep as many digital tracks as they won't each month for a set monthly fee. [Comments...]

June 11, 2009 4:00 AM PDT
by Marguerite Reardon

And for millions who are unprepared, it could mean lights out on their favorite TV shows.

I know what you're thinking. "We've heard this before." In fact, you've probably been hearing about the transition to digital television for the last decade. You likely started seeing public service commercials last year encouraging you to buy a digital converter box to turn your old analog TV into one that could receive digital signals. [C/Net News...]   [Comments...]

From Bit-tech.net:

If you were checking the site much last week, you probably noticed the flood of news stories from Computex, the massive hardware industry tradeshow which takes place every year in Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan.

By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News -- Electronic News, 6/4/2009

Intel Corp announced this morning that it will acquire embedded computing systems-focused Wind River Systems Inc in a deal valued at approximately $884 million, as the chipmaker looks to continue to grow its processor and software presence outside the traditional PC and server market segments into embedded systems and mobile handheld devices.