Roxio Drops Software, Becomes Napster
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Roxio has announced intentions to sell off its software division and focus its efforts entirely on the company's Napster music service. Rival Sonic Solutions will take ownership of Roxio's consumer lines, which include the once market-leading Easy CD Creator, for $80 million. To complete the identity change, Roxio will change its name to Napster.
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In yet more file sharing news, NME is reporting that Napster founder Shawn Fanning is planning another legal music download service that will reportedly have an almost limitless amount of tracks.
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Communication program that allows one instance to act as a server and then any number of instances to connect through any desired port (specified by the server) to Chat, the server relaying. File transfer is also available on a one-to-one basis.   RoxCom 2.0 has been released and now has the ability to allow any number of chat clients to connect to a running RoxCom server on any desired port. All past connection issues have been resolved and file transfer is still working on a 1 to 1 basis and is in development for multi-user capabilities. Chat history files, user configurable connection options and a better history window are on their way.
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Napster was a revolutionary product. It practically gave birth to the p2p industry on the Internet. It has lead to a stage that big corporations of the music industry are practically scared of losing a major chunk of their business from this phenomenon.
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UPDATED - The Roxio division of Sonic Solutions will continue to produce software that supports HD DVD, the parent company told BetaNews today, even while it phases out its HD DVD professional authoring software line.
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Napster developer Shawn Fanning is back with a new file-sharing program -- but this time it&#39;s legit. Without revealing all the details of his new venture, Snocap, Inc.
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Napster Inc.  on Wednesday  provided a disappointing outlook for its online music service  and said its subscriber base had fallen 7 percent as it focused  on promoting a new free Web site.
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Shawn Fanning, the founder of the original Napster peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network, is set to unveil his new music download-related service called SNOCAP this week.
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Napster Inc. NAPS.O said on   Monday it was considering selling the company or other possible   ventures with outsiders looking to hook up with the   once-notorious online music service.
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Online music retailer Napster Inc. said Wednesday its loss narrowed in its fiscal third quarter on lower operating expenses and a 15 percent jump in revenue from its slate of subscription offerings.
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LONDON - Virgin launches its rival to Apple&#39;s iTunes and Roxio&#39;s Napster in the US today, although consumers will get no break on price because the service charges the same 99 cents a song to download.
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The conversion and transferring software from Roxio remains unusable for a number of TiVo customers.
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(InfoWorld) - Napster, the remade version of the popular Internet music sharing service, is in talks over a sale or possible strategic partnership, the company said Monday. The announcement comes as a steady stream of new competitors enter the market, includingÂ SanDisk with partner RealNetworks, andÂ Microsoft with its Zune MarketplaceÂ strategy. It also comes amid a sharp downturn in user figures for Napster, which has seen its user base erode to 512,000 users at the end of June, from 606,000 at the end of March. Napster said it has hired UBS Investment Bank to assist management in the "evaluation of strategic alternatives," in response to interest from a third party in potentially acquiring or establishing a venture with the company. Napster also said it remains in a strong position to continue building its own business, with or without such a deal, highlighting its cash position of $97 million. The announcement sent Napster's Nasdaq-listed stock up 12.4 percent in after-market trading, to $3.99. The company set no timetable for finalizing the evaluation, and said the talks may not result in any deals. Formed in 1999, Napster popularized peer-to-peer music sharing on the Internet, gaining notoriety when a recording industry lawsuit ultimately shut it down and set the precedent for further legal victories over similar online services. A few years after the legal defeat, RoxioÂ bought the rights to its name, and in late 2003Â re-launched itÂ as a legal music download store. Napster faced stiff competition from the moment of its rebirth, mainly from Apple ComputerÂ and its popular iPods, and the iTunes Music Store. Napster currently offers a free 512MB digital music player, or a 1GB one for $50 to users who sign up for its monthly service for three months. It also started an advertising-supported music service in May that allows users to listen more than two million songs at no charge, up to five times each. The company reported a net loss of $9.8 millionÂ in the three months ending June 30, on revenue of $28.1 million.
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Let the porting begin: Uploadr 3.0 is not only out of beta, it's also governed by the GPL now.
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Napster creator Shawn Fanning is back with a new, legal file-sharing service called Snocap. The P2P service reportedly is close to signing a licensing deal with Universal Recording Group.
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Yet another Web Operating System launches. This one is from Michael Robertson, founder of MP3.com, Linspire, and SIPPhone.
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Shawn Fanning, once reviled by record labels as the creator of renegade song-swap service Napster, on Thursday launched a new service designed to turn the threat of still popular peer-to-peer services into an opportunity for music companies and artists.