Digital Music Forum East Keynote Interview with Sony Exec Thomas Hesse [video]

Events

Digital Music Forum East is underway. The first day of festivities started yesterday and the conference lasts through today. The Keynote Interview Series started with a conversation with Thomas Hesse, President, Global Digital Business, US Sales & Corp. Strategy at Sony Music Entertainment. Hesse was interviewed by Larry Kenswil, Of Counsel, Loeb & Loeb LLP. They discussed were Niche Markets, Digital Personalization, and Music in the Cloud. Check it out:

Lost in the Cloud: A Eulogy for My Lost Data

News

I’m not going to knock cloud computing completely because it’s allowing for collaborative efforts that were previously unheard of. And with Google beefing up its cloud computing to take on Microsoft, it’s obvious that its not going anywhere anytime soon. At this stage in the game, especially for mobile phone service providers, it might be a good idea to create an app that will do all the data restoration, similar to how iPhone users can back up their info on iTunes. Until then, if I were you, I’d be backing up all my precious contacts the old-fashioned way with a pad and a pen.

The State of Video Games 2009: An Industry in Flux

Gaming

The video game industry, once declared recession-proof by analysts and tech editors alike has been forced to eat a prodigious helping of crow as of late. With the financial climate still in a state of flux, many people are feeling the pain from long periods of unemployment. As a result, unless the expense has been [...]

Privacy Issues with Cloud Computing

Experts

he digital world is currently buzzing about Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing allows users to share information, data, applications, and software over a series of virtual networks. Essentially the need to store data on a hard drive or static server is becoming a thing of the past. Some examples of online services using Cloud Computing are:

* Second Life

* Google Apps

* Amazon’s Simple Storage Service

Pardon Our Dust, We’re in the Cloud

BW2.0 Announcements

After a long and hard period of trying to figure out which hosting environment would be the best for us at this stage we’ve made the decision to take a leap into the cloud. Cloud Servers are the latest craze and allow websites and applications to scale when load gets usually high. Over [...]