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Photos: Emerging tech from location-based services to social networking
Photo Here, we see a map-like visual representation of musicians and bands, showing which bands are similar in genre and style to your preferred music, pointing you in the direction of new music you might like. [09 Nov 2009]
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment It will be interesting to observe whether, in due course, illegal e-book file-sharing attracts the same levels of controversy and media attention as illegal music file-sharing. They are capable of storing thousands of... [27 Oct 2009]
iPhones unshackled, IT wages revealed and outsourcing explained
News Despite Apple rejecting some iPhone apps, it's approved the potential risk to its own business that is music service Spotify. Another high-speed connectivity of interest to silicon.com readers last month was fibre -... [06 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.09.09
Round-Up Besides, it seems a little unfair for the Round-Up's 87-year-old Great Aunt Aggie to have to shell out another few quid because she owns a phone (but has no idea what the internet is) to benefit the Round-Up's young Cousin Zac in his... [25 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The turntable spins on
Comment The music industry has wasted millions on intellectual property battles and digital rights management, and it looks as though the movie industry is intent on doing the same. Ten years ago a 19-year-old... [24 Sep 2009]
Apple's unspectacular launch: It's just a sign of maturity
News Among its new features are improvements to its Genius software, music-sharing capabilities, and the company's take on the digital album cover. These are not unimportant tasks, at least considering that... [10 Sep 2009]
Apple's iPhone wins rights to sell readymade ringtones in iTunes
News Apple has obtained the rights to offer readymade ringtones for the iPhone and the company is trying to have them available in time for next Wednesday's music-themed press conference. The new music... [03 Sep 2009]
New Apple launch coming next week
News The music-themed event in San Francisco will be held at 10 am PDT at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which is next door to Moscone Center, where Apple's much-larger Worldwide Developers Conference takes place every... [01 Sep 2009]
Yahoo! wins Sony appeal in music streaming case
News Instead, according to Reuters, it merely has to pay licensing fees to digital music rights organisation SoundExchange. In what is being seen as a defeat for the music industry, Yahoo!... [24 Aug 2009]
Apple working on a musical Cocktail with record labels?
News The goal, apparently, is to spark sales of digital albums, with a nod to the music-listening habits of a bygone era. Apple and the major record labels are teaming up to create bundles of interactive... [27 Jul 2009]
Windows to open up to gesture recognition, says Gates
News I think the value is as great for if you're in the home, as you want to manage your movies, music, home system type stuff, it's very cool there," he said. Gates actually dropped the first hint of Natal during his joint... [15 Jul 2009]
Teenagers losing interest in illegal file-sharing as streaming starts to flow
News Illegal file-sharing in the UK has fallen dramatically, according to media and technology researchers at Music Ally. At the same time, streaming music services appear to be taking off. YouTube, MySpace... [13 Jul 2009]
Glastonbury: A festival of iPhone blogging and wireless webcams
News The BBC is using the latest online technology to boost its coverage of this weekend's Glastonbury music festival, which starts today. Senior content producer for BBC Audio & Music online, Tim Clarke,... [25 Jun 2009]
Not using Apple? iTunes reminds it won't support you
News By "some third parties" they could well mean "Palm", which has manipulated the new Pre smartphone to sync with Apple's music software. Titled iTunes: About unsupported third-party digital media players,... [18 Jun 2009]
A new media world: Napster's 10-year anniversary
Comment Ten years after the launch of digital music upstart Napster, Gartner analyst Mike McGuire ponders the controversial program's legacy. In short, my feeling about Napster requires me to paraphrase TV... [03 Jun 2009]
