Pollster Ipsos-Reid says today that one-fifth of American who have downloaded a digital music file have also downloaded a full-length movie. Of course, this was only a matter of time and a matter of consumer bandwidth.
BitTorrent users are already using that particular application to move television shows and DVD-quality ...   more »

Earlier this month, Canada's biggest record companies, acting through the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), lost a key court ruling. The Federal Court of Canada ruled that CRIA was not entitled to force some of Canada's largest ISPs to turn over private customer data that the record companies say ...   more »

Thanks to Tim Bray for pointing to this fascinating look behind-the-scenes at how photos end up in Sports Illustrated. Sports Illustrated's photographers shot more than 16,000 photos during the most recent Super Bowl. That's right, 16,000 photos ...   more »

Earlier this week, Apple Computer Inc. released financial results for its fiscal second quarter and they were terrific, although there were some shadows in the details. Sales of Apple's iPod were through the roof but sales of the G5 desktop were disappointing.
Investors, though, took one look at the big ...   more »

The Canadian Recording Industry Association says it will appeal a controversial court ruling last month that seemed to suggest that, in Canada anyhow, sharing music on the Internet is not illegal. The record industry will argue that Federal Court of Canada Judge Konrad von Finckenstein made several legal errors in ...   more »

Washington-based research firm TeleGeography says that "while falling prices and overcapacity continue to plague the industry ... New demand growth has begun to outpace price erosion on many city-to-city routes." That would be encouraging news to long-haul service providers like Bell, Spring, and (back from the dead) 360Networks. It also ...   more »

In December, the International Telecommunications Union will host the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva, Switzerland. In preparation for that summit, the ITU is asking anyone with any interest at all in this area, to fill out an online survey asking questions like:

• What are the most important ...

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On Tuesday morning, I will be giving a presenation to the Media Relations Summit in Toronto, Canada. Here's the conference blurb for my session:
"“First it was the tech meltdown. Then, the war on terrorism grabbed the headlines. In a news environment dominated by an uncertain economy and global unrest, ...   more »