links for 2008-01-10

BBC NEWS | Business | Warner agrees to use MP3 format

Warner Music Group is making its music available for US downloads from Amazon in MP3 format without copy protection.

(tags: music warner copyright digital downloads mp3 amazon)
BBC NEWS | Technology | Web icon set to be discontinued

Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 February 2008, the company has said.

(tags: news software web netscape internet browsers aol)
BBC NEWS | Technology | Open source search effort starts

Billed as an open source search engine Wikia Search launched on 7 January backed by Wikia

(tags: google search wikipedia wikia)
BBC NEWS | Technology | Sony drops locks on music albums

Sony BMG is set to launch a service that will let consumers buy some downloadable albums that are free of copy protection software.

(tags: music downloads drm sony)
Search Wikia – search – a Wikia wiki

Wikia is working to develop and popularize a freely licensed (open source) search engine

(tags: search wiki searchengine opensource wikipedia community)

The links for 2008-01-10 by Simon Scullion, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Spain License.

Simon Scullion

Yes saw that, made me chuckle too!

Though interestingly Sony BMG has gone in with amazon now too: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7182706.stm

Vitor Pereira

Simon, did you read the article about Sony dropping DRM? It's hilarious, you have to buy a gift card in the store and then go home and use the code on the back of the card to download the tracks.