FUNimation Acquires "Disgaea"
FUNimation Entertainment has picked up the home entertainment, broadcast, and digital rights to Disgaea, the company said yesterday. The 12-episode series, which has been adapted by director Kiyotaka Isako from a role-playing game, will get a... [read more]

U2 manager still thinks ISPs are freeloading
Paul McGuinness is once again blaming ISPs for falling music revenues. I agree with his plan: subscriptions are the answer. The problem is how to implement them.

Sony's iTunes Rival: What I Want to See
Let's hope that Sony has learned from the failure of its Connect music store. Sony - Intellectual Property - Apple - Mobile phone - Digital Rights Management

Future of the book discussed in confab
Technology has changed the way books are created and enjoyed. The electronic book (e-book), invented in 1971 by Michael Hart, is emerging as the breakthrough that rivals Johann Gutenberg’s printing press. With the various reading devices and file formats available for e-books, and the ease of transmission online, e-books are becoming an increasingly popular medium for reading.

Grooveshark pulled from App Store
A legal complaint from Universal Music is to blame, according to the upstart service that charges $3 a month for unlimited on-demand music streams to iPhones.

DECE turns UltraViolet
The moniker chosen by the inter-industry Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem doesn't reveal much about its purpose -- to deliver movies and music to consumers through the Internet in a way that's resistant to piracy yet compatible with a wide variety of devices. So it's not surprising that the brand name the group is announcing today, UltraViolet, doesn't tell consumers much about the ...

FCC Asks for More Feedback on Net Neutrality
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission, in the midst of a long and often contentious debate over whether it should enact formal rules prohibiting broadband providers from selectively blocking or slowing Web content, is asking the public for more comments about network neutrality.

Hosted service promises to protect corporate documents on smartphones
A hosted application for securing shared corporate documents is being extended to handheld devices. With WatchDox, mobile users can view and even selected documents, but be prevented from saving, printing, or forwarding them, if desired.

Apple's move pushes TV toward Internet delivery
SAN FRANCISCO -- The slow-moving struggle to unplug TV viewing from its traditional business model just got more interesting -- and messier. Apple - Steve Jobs - Companies - IPhone - iPod

FUNimation Acquires Disgaea Anime
FUNimation has announced that it has acquired home entertainment...

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