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Photos: Android marches onto even more smartphones
Photo Media content is also harvested from various sources - such as video sharing website YouTube and Sony Ericsson's PlayNow music service - and presented to the user on the device. It's two years since Google announced it... [06 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. And that will keep the lawyers plenty busy,... [27 Oct 2009]
Photos: Second coming for touchscreen BlackBerry
Photo The Storm2 has built-in GPS and wi-fi, and a media player for videos, pictures and music. RIM today announced the launch of the BlackBerry Storm2 smartphone, the company's second touchscreen handset. The device is the... [15 Oct 2009]
Photos: Sony unleashes latest Vaios - from mini laptops to touchscreens
Photo The Vaio Movie Story software can also create video montages from clips of home video footage, while the SensMe technology - built into Vaio's Music Player - can sort tracks according to mood. Last week saw Sony unveil... [14 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: United breaks guitars?
Comment I suspect it has done his music career no harm whatsoever, too. Compiled at JFK Airport whilst waiting for BA 178 to fly me home via London Heathrow. Dispatched to silicon.com via a free LAN connection in the BA lounge. [14 Oct 2009]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile He's also co-founded London-based VC fund Atomico Ventures, which put money into a wealth of other tech ventures including wi-fi sharing community FON and music discovery service Last.fm. Niklas Zennström is best known... [08 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. Once again, September saw another fresh crop of students head off to university for the first... [06 Oct 2009]
Minority Report: Is Microsoft competing with imaginary Apple tablets?
Comment Operating systems, touchscreen music players, advertising, retail stores, you name it. Are Microsoft and Apple about to lock horns yet again, this time in the battle to reign king of the Tablet? Or, Seb Janacek says, is... [01 Oct 2009]
Ray Kurzweil
AS Profile Kurzweil's not just a thinker, he's a doer - a writer of many books and an inventor of several technologies including flatbed scanners, music synthesizers and text-to-speech reading machines. Ray Kurzweil is a futurist... [29 Sep 2009]
Daniel Ek
AS Profile Daniel Ek co-founded the Spotify on-demand music streaming service in 2006 with Martin Lorentzon but it has been over the past 12 months that it's really taken off. The UK-based company's name is a combination of spot... [29 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The turntable spins on
Comment Ten years ago a 19-year-old Shawn Fanning launched Napster and music file-sharing; and the property rights war has been raging ever since. The music industry has wasted millions on intellectual property... [24 Sep 2009]
Streaming Music Video Site Selects Intuitive .tv Domain Name to Instantly Engage Target Audience
White Paper True to its name, Pop.tv allows music fans to locate and stream music videos that span a wide range of genres and cultures. The challenge was to obtain flagship URL, to launch a globally recognizable... [19 Sep 2009]
Weekend Gadget Watch: Apple iPod 5th-gen nano
Photo Camera won't take still images; can't listen to music while recording video Considering hitting the shops at the weekend? Looking for inspiration? Check out the latest in our series of gadget mini-reviews, courtesy of... [18 Sep 2009]
Skype hangs up on developer plug-ins
News On Friday Skype pulled the plug on its Extras programme, which was designed to help third-party developers create add-ons for Skype's VoIP service - like emoticon enhancements, backup services, and music player plug-ins. [15 Sep 2009]
Photos: Motorola's first Android device
Photo As far as music and video, the handset offers a built-in music and video player and also comes preloaded with the Amazon MP3 Store, a dedicated YouTube app, Shazam, Last.fm and Imeem. In the US, the Cliq... [14 Sep 2009]
