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Category Archives: gear
Kindling without the Kindle
In a move similar to Apple using the iPod on Windows users to get people to consider a Mac, Amazon is offering the Kindle app as a free download for Windows desktops, along with free content, plus the ability to … Continue reading
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More Networking for Xbox
Last.fm announced that it quickly gained one million users from its recent Xbox integration. Now owned by CBS, Last.fm agreed to sync itself into Xbox Live alongside Facebook and Twitter last week. The increase in user base (covering the US … Continue reading
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Better late than never – IBM sees the mobility light
IBM has decided that it wants to become influential in the world of mobile computing. The company has announced a $100 million investment pool to develop new services for mobile phones. With few details about its research goals, IBM indicated … Continue reading
Micro-Billing, Byte by Byte, Suits the World of Cellphones
By MATT RICHTEL and BOB TEDESCHI, New York Times Published: April 5, 2009 LAS VEGAS — As the music, film, television, newspaper, book and video-game industries strain to find a way to thrive in the new digital marketplace, one seems … Continue reading
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Developers push limits of games and distribution
Edited article from Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Not every video game creator was musing about how to sell more hardware or craft more realistic virtual weaponry at the Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of game designers, programmers and … Continue reading
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SanDisk, Labels promote another hardware music format
In 2008, 750 million mobile phones sold worldwide had microSD card slots. SanDisk, one of the creators of the Security Digital (SD) card format, believes that there is a future for SD micro cards as a music album format. The … Continue reading
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U.S. Lawmakers Reopen Satellite, Internet Radio Royalty Debate
A group of legislators have reopened the Perform Act, a bill that reshapes royalty structures on the streaming formats in the U.S. Historically, the rights associated with a piece of music are: Performing rights – music performed “live”, either in … Continue reading
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Apple’s iPhone – features, winners, losers
Ok, so this is one of 2.5 Million Google web page references to Apple’s new iPhone. It’s hard not to get caught up in the hyperbole and breathless adjectives – one thing for sure: this device going to have a … Continue reading
TELUS Launches Subscription Music Service in Canada
TELUS, Canada’s Vancouver-based wireless carrier, has expanded its over-the-air (OTA) mobile music service from single downloads to a monthly subscription service. This is the first OTA subscription-download service in North America and, for $C 20 ($US 17.55) per month, subscribers … Continue reading
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Best Buy Teams with RealNetworks’ Rhapsody and SanDisk to Launch the Best Buy Digital Music Store
The Press Release: MINNEAPOLIS, SEATTLE and MILPITAS, CA, Oct. 5, 2006 – Today, Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) unveiled the Best Buy Digital Music Store, a new service that will give customers an easy way to enjoy, manage, and discover music. … Continue reading
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Snow White and Seven Dwarves now playing in digital music space
With the Microsoft Zune entry, we now have the following Music Store / Device pairings: – Apple iTunes + iPod (with a proprietary DRM) – Rhapsody + SanDisk in the US (with a proprietary DRM) – Samsung with Medianet in … Continue reading
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