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Mobile DRM Vendor BeepScience Bought By Safenet - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 16 May 2008 02:18 AM PST

Norway-based mobile and online content DRM vendor BeepScience has been quietly bought by US security technology company SafeNet, reports DRM Watch. The deal terms were not disclosed. Beep Science’s client…

@ MWC: EMI To Sell DRM-Free Mobile Music Through Jamba - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 12 Feb 2008 02:59 PM PST

EMI has licensed Jamba to provide what the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and Verisign-owned mobile entertainment outfit says is the label’s first DRM-free repertoire in Europe to cross both mobile…

@ MWC: Industry To Regulators: ‘Hands Off!’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 12 Feb 2008 04:26 AM PST

Yesterday, EU telco commissioner Vivianne Reding and GSM Association CEO Rob Conway were on the same page when they teamed for a joint press conference. Today, the gulf between mobile…

Nokia’s Comes With Music To Use WMA, Songs Not Transferable - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 12 Dec 2007 04:39 PM PST

Some more details of *Nokia*’s Comes With Music service have come to light ... the DRM will be WMA, and the tracks will be 192kbps and 128kbps. The songs can…

PlaysForSure Rebranded To “Certified For Windows Vista” - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 12 Dec 2007 04:24 PM PST

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has rebranded its PlayForSure DRM technology to Certified for Windows Vista, a confusing move that seems more intended to promote upgrades to Vista than to promote the…

Nokia, Microsoft Ink DRM Deal - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Mon 06 Aug 2007 03:22 AM PST

Or, strange bedfellows get a little cozier. In a bid to be more competitive with the Apple digital entertainment juggernaut, today Nokia (NYSE:NOK) announced it would use Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) PlayReady…

M-Payment Services Will Pay Off For U.S. Operators - Strategy Analytics - 2 Comments
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Thu 21 Jun 2007 02:01 AM PST

Verizon Wireless’ decision to partner with Obopay (announcing an m-payment service enabled as a BREW application) will likely pay dividends, according to research from Strategy Analytics. It bases much of…

MPAA Keen For Mobile With Universal DRM - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 24 Apr 2007 03:48 PM PST

Motion Picture Association of America head Dan Glickman has told a Digital Rights Management Conference sponsored by LexisNexis and Variety that the MPAA is keen to allow legal copies of…

CTIA: PacketVideo Corporation Acquires SDC - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 26 Mar 2007 06:34 PM PST

San Diego-based Packetvideo has announced the acquisition of Basel, Switzerland-based SDC AG for an undisclosed amount. We noted it at the beginning of the month, and this is the official…

EU Official Takes Aim At Apple - 2 Comments
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Mon 12 Mar 2007 09:49 AM PST

Reuters reports EU consumer chief Meglena Kuneva has criticized Apple’s practice of bundling of its iPod music players and its iTunes online music store. Reuters, which picked up the story…

PacketVideo Acquires SDC, Keeps It Quiet - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 01 Mar 2007 03:17 PM PST

DRM Watch has noted that PacketVideo has acquired Swiss mobile DRM company SDC, but neither company has made a big announcement about the deal. DRM Watch suggests this is because…

Can Microsoft’s PlayReady DRM Technology Kick-Start Mobile Content On The Move? - 1 Comment
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Thu 22 Feb 2007 04:00 AM PST

Microsoft certainly thinks so. Tech Digest features an interview with Jim Alkove, Microsoft’s Senior Director Technical Strategy, who puts the DRM scheme into perceptive. Much of the interview reads as…

Telefonica To Trial Intertrust DRM - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 21 Feb 2007 09:44 PM PST

Telefonica’s Spanish and UK mobile arms will trial the DRM system developed by Intertrust, called Marlin (originally developed by Intertrust, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung and Sony). The trial will start in…

Smartphones Wait For Convergence - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 18 Feb 2007 01:44 PM PST

TechNewsWorld has an interesting piece on media and wireless convergence, and how it affects smartphones. According to journalist Glenn Fleischmann two things are holding back convergence—carriers don’t want to do…

Music Execs Criticise DRM Systems - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 18 Feb 2007 12:54 PM PST

It seems that music executives aren’t as out of touch with general opinion as people think… the BBC writes on a study by Jupiter Research showing that many music industry…

Intertrust Undercuts Mobile DRM Licenses - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 16 Feb 2007 06:36 PM PST

Intertrust is offering its licenses for mobile DRM cheaper than that of MPEG LA, reports The Register, in a bid to cut out other licence holders which are part of…

@ 3GSM: Real Call For End To DRM Arms Race - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 14 Feb 2007 05:56 AM PST

The music downloads business needs to adopt common digital rights management standards, according to John Giamatteo, RealNetworks’ EVP for worldwide business products and innovative operations. Speaking at the 3GSM mobile…

Microsoft Launches “PlayReady” Mobile DRM System - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 12 Feb 2007 04:51 PM PST

Microsoft has launched a new mobile DRM system called “PlayReady” (as if its PlaysForSure DRM/interoperability system was a great success) that will allow users to use commercial content on multiple…

Norway Forces Apple To Open Up iTunes - 0 Comments
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Thu 25 Jan 2007 05:41 AM PST

Considerable coverage today about Norway, joined by consumer groups in Germany and France, putting the pressure on Apple to embrace interoperability of iTunes so that tracks bought from the store…

Sony BMG, Warner Invest In China-Melodeo JV Focused On Mobile Downloads - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 23 Jan 2007 05:39 AM PST

Sony BMG and Warner Music Group have invested and partnered with a JV operating in China that develops technology for distributing music downloads and other content to mobile phones, the…

Discretix Gets $20M In 3rd Round Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 10 Jan 2007 03:00 AM PST

Discretix, which provides embedded security solutions for mobile devices and flash memory, has announced that it has raised $20 million in third round financing. The round included all current Discretix…

French Operator To Combine Flash Cards And SIMs To Control Digital Rights - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 08 Nov 2006 10:18 PM PST

Card Technology: SanDisk has got its first customer for its TrustedFlash technology. Bouygues Telecom in France has adopted the technology—which allows the transfer of content to other devices that support…

Microsoft’s Mobile DRM Flaw - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sat 04 Nov 2006 08:15 PM PST

Microsoft hasn’t denied that information stored on Windows Mobile devices is not as secure as that stored on other devices such as Blackberry’s, because it isn’t held in an encrypted…

July Systems Claims Mobile DRM Patent - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 06 Sep 2006 12:10 PM PST

July Systems has been awarded a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office. “The patent, “Application Rights Management in a Mobile Environment” (US Patent 7089594) recognizes July’s unique DRM…

Jamba Music Goes Beta (German) - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 27 Jul 2006 08:08 AM PST

I’ve poorly translated the following from German, so if any German speakers notice any mistakes please let me know… The Jamba (German arm of Jamster) full track music service, which…