In this guest column, Alan McGlade reflects on subscription versus paid download and a la carte business models from his perspective as Digital Entertainment Ventures managing director and former MediaNet CEO.

QVIVO founder Liam McCallum looks at the increasingly important role cloud-based services play in a world of proliferating data.

CES 2012 is over, and now it is time for the post-mortems. Once again, 3D is a dominant topic of these discussions, as The Shindler Perspective CEO Marty Shindler writes.

Microsoft chief operating officer Steve Ballmer laid out the company’s vision for Xbox 360, Kinect and Xbox Live as the core of every household’s entertainment system, the promise of Windows Phones, and the next version of Windows as a unified platform that brings it all together regardless of device or screen. He said Microsoft's philosophy for everything is to put people first.

Guest author Wayne Rosso explains why he thinks NARAS giving a special Grammy to Steve Jobs is just “a cynical public relations stunt by an industry seeped in hypocrisy.”

CMJ Music Marathon starts tomorrow in New York City, and once again music industry maven Fiona Bloom has agreed to sift through the hundreds of performing artists to select 50 of the best gigs for any Digital Media Wire reader who wants to sample a cross-section of the most diverse, original and exciting entertainment CMJ 2011 has to offer.

Canada's ruling Conservative party is considering a new law — Bill C-52 — that gives law enforcement authorities greater access to ISP and geolocation...

Allan Freeth, chief executive of TelstraClear, has spoken out against his country's Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011, which comes into effect Sept....