Four In Ten iPhone Buyers Are Business Users, Says AT&T

Ron Spears, chief of AT&T’s Business Solutions unit, told an investor conference yesterday that enterprise customers make up a full 40 percent of current iPhone sales. As All Things D notes, the stat cuts down the notion that the iPhone cannot compete with the Blackberry for business users. But the number could prompt entertainment analysts to revise their estimates for average content downloads across the general-consumer iPhone base. By All Things D

Netflix Still Puts DVD Peak At 2013

GigaOM’s NewTeeVee yesterday posted slides from a Netflix corporate deck that project the renter’s DVD-by-mail shipments will peak in 2013. The real news here is that the streaming market seems to be proceeding exactly according to Netflix’s plans. The company’s DVD-peak projection remains the same as it was in May 2008, when the Roku streaming set-top box was brand new. By NewTeeVee

Borders Looks To Digital Distribution Prospects

Reporting a 16 percent revenue decline for its first quarter, Borders Group said yesterday that it expects its revamped Borders.com store and forthcoming Kobo e-book reader (in stores July 2) to offset slumping physical media sales. In an interview with Reuters, interim chief executive Mike Edwards acknowledged the specialty retailer is “a little late to the game” of digital distribution. However, Edwards added, “The game’s just starting, and we won’t see the full shakeout of the digital revolution for at least another six months to a year.” Domestic same-store sales at Borders were down 11% during the first quarter. Factoring out music, movies, and other “multimedia” categories — which the retailer has substantially curtailed in stores since 2009 — comp sales were down by 7% year over year. By Reuters

Media Giants Push Back On Apple’s Anti-Flash Stance: Report

Sources tell the New York Post that NBC Universal and Time Warner are among “several” media companies who are refusing to reformat their digital video libraries to accommodate Apple’s iPad. Apple continues to eschew Adobe’s Flash technology for “open standards like HTML 5.” The battle may be just beginning, with PC makers readying touchscreen tablet devices and Google developing its own Internet TV tuner software. By the New York Post

Donations In Memory of José Royo

The Premiere Oncology Foundation in Santa Monica, CA is accepting donations in honor of José Royo, the digital media services pioneer and Ascent Media executive who passed last week. Donations may be made via Premiereoncology.org or 2020 Santa Monica Blvd., Ste. 600, Santa Monica, CA 90404. Royo joined Ascent in 2002 and led the company’s Digital Media Center before becoming COO of Ascent Media and CEO of the company’s AMG subsidiary in 2008. He is survived by his wife and two children. Ascent Media

Final program announced for ESCA EDGE conference on June 3 in LA

This year’s ESCA EDGE conference on June 3 is about much more than the entertainment supply chain.  Guest appearances by Redbox president Mitch Lowe and Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels are just some of the highlights that will also include exclusive analyst reports, youth marketing downloads, and technology updates by Microsoft, HP, Akamai and Sony DADC, [...]

IBM Buys Entertainment Supply Chain Leader Sterling Commerce

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) agreed to acquire business-to-business services provider Sterling Commerce from AT&T Inc. for roughly $1.4 billion.  The company has been active in providing supply chain services for physical and digital media to a range of content holders.  By: Wall St. Journal

DEG Europe Reports First Quarter Boom in Disc Sales

The European disc market (combining DVD and Blu-ray Disc) saw an overall sales increase of 2.3 percent to 1.5 billion euros ($1.9 billion) in the first quarter of 2010, compared with the same period in 2009, according DEGE: The Digital Entertainment Group Europe. DVD and Blu-ray units sold in Europe grew 3.8 percent in the [...]

Internet Second Only to TV as Source of Entertainment

Research by Edelman, the world’s largest independent public relations firm, shows that consumers believe social networks provide a higher value experience compared with other forms of entertainment. Edelman’s annual Trust in the Entertainment Industry survey, now in its fourth year, also reveals that the Internet, as a source of entertainment, is second only to television.   [...]

iPad Outpacing Mac Sales. Is the iPhone Next?

Sales of the iPad are already outpacing those of the Mac in the United States, according to an analyst’s calculations. Apple is selling more than 200,000 iPads per week, says Mike Abramsky, an RBC Capital Markets analyst. That’s almost twice the rate of Mac computers, which average about 110,000 units sold each week. The iPad [...]

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