The global recorded music market declined nearly 4% last year, but music streaming grew by more than 50%. Other digital sales and ‘performance rights’ also grew strongly – as did vinyl.
The Australian Computer Society, which will host the 21st World Computer Congress in Brisbane in September, has unveiled a stellar line up of speakers for the event including author and opinion-shaper Nicholas Carr, the UK Government's CIO John Suffolk and Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Movement.