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Universal Now Offers Movies Through iCloud, Fox Up Next

iTunes fans are confirming that Universal Studios has loosened up its policy regarding iCloud downloads, making its movies available for re-download through Apple's suite of web services. Up until now, both Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox have refused to offer iCloud video streaming because of a contract...

9 April 2012
03:12 GMT

Grooveshark Claims Universal Is Full of It in New Lawsuit

Last week, Universal Music Group made a rather surprising move, suing the Grooveshark, again. It's not the lawsuit that's surprising, the accusations are. Universal claims that Grooveshark employees, from the CEO downwards, uploaded pirated songs to the site. Grooveshark enables users to upload their own s...

23 November 2011
11:11 GMT

Grooveshark May Be Shut Down as Employees Are Accused of Uploading Illegal Music

Grooveshark has operated under a somewhat sketchy legal basis from day one. Yet it managed to stay alive for years now, streaming millions of songs, for free, to millions of users around the world.But that may come to an end if the latest accusations coming from Universal Music Group, which has sued the music streami...

19 November 2011
11:11 GMT

Apple Invents the ‘Universal Dock’

Apple may be gearing up for the release of a dock that universally fits any (Apple) device, reports say. A patent application filed by the Mac maker has caught the eye of those tracking Apple’s moves. These people are now speculating that a dock conforming to the shape and size of any device is being designed i...

11 December 2009
08:33 GMT

Sony Signs Up for YouTube's New Music Video Site Vevo

Universal Music Group and YouTube plan to launch a new music video site called Vevo later this year and have been in talks with the other three major music labels for licensing and partnership. The negotiations have come to fruition, at least on one side, as Sony Music Entertainment has announced it will join the ven...

5 June 2009
06:37 GMT

Fifth ‘Fast & Furious’ Film Already in the Works

Given the box-office hit that was “Fast & Furious,” confirmation for a sequel was not that unexpected as Universal might have thought. As a matter of fact, talk of yet another movie on the same topic with Paul Walker and Vin Diesel started about the same time that promotion for the fourth film began, but ...

14 April 2009
09:32 GMT

Universal Is Going into Videogame Development

Universal is announcing that it is setting up a videogame studio to handle development for some upcoming projects. Universal had a stake in Vivendi Universal, even if that company was not focused on games based on movies, but the merger between Activision and Blizzard means Vivendi Universal is now virtually out of t...

25 July 2008
14:06 GMT

Gameloft Announces "The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" Mobile Game

Gameloft has just announced having secured the license from the Universal Pictures Digital Platforms Group to develop and publish the mobile game of the upcoming supernatural adventure The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor in theaters on August 1st, 2008. This seems to be Gameloft's fourth collaboration with Uni...

5 May 2008
03:16 GMT

Universal Studios to Finally Go Blu-ray

Just about everybody around the world has heard about the demise of HD DVD, the next-generation DVD format supported by Toshiba. However, there were certain major studios that were still legally bounded by contract to stick with the dead format, but it seems that those bounds have expired, as Universal seems to be pr...

17 April 2008
09:51 GMT

MySpace Entering the Music Fight

Yahoo! was a bit of a visionary when it decided to go for the music market with all it had. First came an MP3 player, and then the plans to deliver ad-supported free tracks started taking shape. Amazon has geared up for the same purpose and Apple's iTunes' position starts to look shaky every moment passing....

21 February 2008
03:41 GMT

Baidu in Trouble with Warner and Universal

The counter-offensive that the IFPI have started against piracy lacks some coordination, as far as I'm concerned. It's going after everybody at the same time, suing across continents and taking the battle to everybody's field. At the same time, I'm afraid that they're entering the battlegroun...

5 February 2008
05:59 GMT

Free Music Download Service for iPod Happening!

Looks like this formerly too-good-to-be-true rumor is finally taking shape. Sources on the Internet indicate that Qtrax, a once controversial peer-to-peer file sharing service, is relaunching this week under an ad-supported model, offering a 25-30 million tracks music catalog (and this is just for the iPod). The song...

29 January 2008
02:15 GMT

The Shmoo Wants to Wage War on Apple

It is no secret that the major labels are greedy, consumers know it all too well, and they have been called that to their faces before. It turns out that things are actually worse, with the labels' absurd war on Apple and iTunes now bordering lunacy.In a most excellent interview with Seth Mnookin for Wired, Univ...

29 November 2007
12:19 GMT

Google Debuts Universal Search: All-In-One Search Engine

The Mountain View company introduced today a new revolutionary search technology able to enhance the power of the results page. Basically, the Universal Search is a search technology that looks for all formats of information, no matter if it's video, books, blog posts, news or others and displays ALL of them on ...

17 May 2007
03:31 GMT


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