Wired magazine is one of the oddest of technology's many odd commodities. The self-consciously ultra-hip journal has positioned itself since its inception as the clarion of the new age of paperless publishing. Its parent organization, Wired Ventures, Inc., has long put its money where its mouth is by supporting Wired Digital, Wired's online equivalent.
But in its four-year existence, Wired Digital has never turned a profit: leading by example, heralding the…
From the December issue, Brian Damkroger takes on the Burmester 001 CD player, insisting that "a $14,000 CD player stops me in my tracks. Just what makes it so expensive? More important, can it possibly be that good?" BD details the answer.
For his "As We See It" from December, The Angels' Share, Wes Phillips asserts, "It's only a CD-R with a self-adhesive label and computer-generated inserts, but it's what the major record…
Sebastapol, CA–based Mobile Fidelity built a large and loyal following in the audiophile community, beginning with its release of high-quality half-speed remasterings of popular recordings in the 1970s. The company benefited from the CD revolution in the 1980s with a series of extremely successful "gold" reissues, but in the late 1990s suffered a cash crunch—the result of bad…
Reporting that mid-year global music sales figures were down by 5% in the first half of the year 2001, the International Association for the Phonographic Industry's Jay Berman said, "Mass-scale CD copying and piracy had a particularly sharp impact on music…
More digital debriefing when Robert Deutsch uncovers details of the Perpetual Technologies P-1A D/D & P-3A D/A processors. As Deutsch tells the tale, "Finally, more than 18 months after the initial product announcement, the P-1A and P-…
"Consumer and Professional Division sales in China will be 80% of plan in fiscal '98. Sales to Japan will be only 60% of plan and sales to the rest of Asia will be less than 40% of plan," Dr. Harman stated. "For the full year we will have lost $90 million in sales in Asia plus $60 million in sales in Europe and North…
Unlike Napster, which used central servers to link large databases of music files, Grokster and StreamCast (maker of Morpheus) simply make their software available for any application their users…
20 degrees Fahrenheit here. I'm looking out the window. There, a mad dance of snow, a strong wind, not yet…
Scheduled to be introduced for consideration in late October, the bill stipulates that "an interactive computer service shall…
This past spring saw ticket prices for big acts go off the charts, from $70–80 for terrible seats to the low hundreds for merely good seats, to the high…