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Game giant Electronic Arts is giving the University of Southern California's Interactive Media Division a multimillion-dollar donation to advance interactive media education and produce professionals for the next generation of gaming. The money -- which is part of EA's global education and talent de...

TECHNOLOGY AND MUSIC

Super Vision: Technology, Music and the Inventive Spirit

In this column in the coming months, I will be writing about people with vision in the area of music, the arts and the technical arts. Specifically, I'll focus on what they have created, their views of now and the future, and what motivates them to create. I hope that by writing about unique people ...

Designing death is not a simple matter. Consider the following. You spend hours, days, weeks playing in an online universe populated by characters from the Star Wars saga, developing your character's skills until you are a mighty hero. Then one day you take on one too many bad guys at once, and your...

As the writer of several top-20 MP3.com hits last year, Paul Korda's perspective on the convergence of technology and music comes from many years of working as a musician and songwriter. He has seen the old technology meet the new -- and has witnessed the transformation of monolithic Big Music into ...

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Computing Invades the Living Room

Computing is moving out of the office and heading for the living room, the coat pocket and the car. In a convergence with traditional home entertainment, computing and telecommunications technologies are starting to weave together a pervasive mix of "lifestyle" products and services. In the near fut...

In a new report, the Entertainment Software Association counters the perception that it sells mostly violent video games to America's youth. Mature-rated games accounted for just 12 percent of last year's $7 billion in computer and video game sales, according to the report. Despite the decline in vi...

A hornets' nest of fury over a video game that urges its players to "kill the Haitians" has prompted a South Florida city to approve -- at least initially -- a sweeping ordinance to regulate games sold or rented to minors. The law, proposed by North Miami's Joe Celestin, a Haitian-American, imposes ...

A lawsuit over riches and arms achieved while playing an online video game might sound bizarre, but the Chinese court that heard the case has ordered the video game company to return the virtual booty to the 24-year-old who filed the suit. According to Chinese news service Xinhuanet, The Beijing Cha...

In clarifying what is legal for Canadian online music fans, the Canadian Copyright Board ruled that downloading music files from peer-to-peer networks is acceptable. However, the board declared that uploading music files is illegal and also approved a levy on digital music players based on their sto...

A scheme to counter the Balkanization of digital rights management on the Internet was unveiled Wednesday by a standards group whose members include ContentGuard, Macrovision, Microsoft, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Universal Music Group and VeriSign. The group -- called the Content Reference For...

RIAA Sues More P2P Users

The Recording Industry Association of America pushed forward with its campaign to sue illegal music file-traders this week, piling on another 41 suits in the third wave of legal action aimed at those who share music files over peer-to-peer networks. The industry group that represents the world's maj...

IBM hopes to hit it big with its new Business Integration Game (BIG) technology, which is a software system designed to throw third-party e-commerce and communication into the latest online role-playing and multiplayer video games. The BIG framework, which uses open standards such as SOAP and J2EE, ...

While some PC makers talk a good consumer electronics strategy, Gateway is turning talk into products. That's what Gateway executive vice president Scott Edwards told TechNewsWorld in an exclusive interview following a New York City press conference where the computer maker with the bovine brand int...

Not to be ignored in the wake of several big online music announcements made over the course of the past few weeks, RealNetworks has announced a partnership with Intel that could help move RealNetworks' on-demand music service -- called Rhapsody -- from the office into the living room. While Apple's...

The original Napster software emerged and blossomed on university campuses, so it seems only appropriate that one of Roxio's first strategic steps with Napster 2.0 would be to return to the university -- this time with a legal system that will provide music to students and faculty at Penn State Univ...

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