BrandBrains

• Wal-Mart Offers New MP3 Download Format
  “The “DRM-free” (digital rights management-free) MP3 music downloads are available at the Wal-Mart Web site for 94 cents per track and $9.22 per album.”
  (tags: music downloads wal-mart mp3 drm digitalmedia itunes apple)
• Mailplane: Brings Gmail to your Mac desktop
  (tags: apple applications apps browser business computer google email osx software mac gmail mail)
• Moviestar: Adobe Beefs Up Flash 9 with H.264, AAC and Hardware Support
  “Over the next few months, watching video over the web (think YouTube, MySpace video, streaming video everywhere) will be noticeably improved, finally taking advantage of those fancy graphics cards you have tucked into your PCs and Macs and H.264, too.”
  (tags: digitalmedia adobe flash9 flash video audio aac youtube)
• MTV, RealNetworks Join to Battle iTunes
  “MTV Networks announced that it is merging its online digital-music offerings into a joint venture with RealNetworks’ Rhapsody subscription digital-music service. Verizon Wireless has signed on to supply mobile distribution for the JV’s content.”
  (tags: mtvnetworks mtvurge mtv realnetworks digitalmedia music downloads subscriptions verizonwireless wireless portablemedia mobilecontent)
• Format Wars - Gizmodo
  “The NYT confirms the earlier rumor that the HD DVD camp paid $150 million in “Promotional consideration” to have Paramount and Dreamworks Animation go strictly HD DVD.”
  (tags: hd-dvd blu-ray paramount dreamworks formats highdefinition video digitalmedia)
• The IPhone Is Internet Explorer 4 All Over Again
  “The iPhone has created a division in the mobile-optimized web which is eerily similar to the days of IE 4 when many sites simply didn’t work in Netscape.”
  (tags: apple browser development gadgets ie internet internetexplorer iphone mobile web accessibility)

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