Technology News

Nimbit Expands Direct to Fan Toolkit with nimbitPro

Source: HypeBot
April 26, 2010

At the ASCAP Expo in Hollywood today, direct to fan services provider Nimbit announced the addition of nimbitPro, an improved suite of tools and services designed to allow artists and their teams to manage their direct to fan marketing and sales efforts via a unified dashboard.

With nimbitPro, artists and their teams can use the dashboard to capture and communicate with fans, execute marketing campaigns, generate direct sales across multiple storefronts and distribution channels, and measure their efforts. “First generation ...

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Police Seize Computers, Property of Blogger Who Wrote About Supposed Lost iPhone

Source: Michael Ricci
April 26, 2010

Jason Chen with the alleged next generation iPhone. “We got it. We disassembled it. It's the real thing," he wrote. Police in San Mateo County served a search warrant at the home of Jason Chen, a technology blogger who had posted extensive information about a lost mobile device he claimed was an unreleased version of Apple's Inc. blockbuster iPhone. According to documents and accounts posted on Gizmodo, Chen's blog, police raided the blogger's house on Friday night and seized nearly ...

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Make Room on Your Desk for M-Audio's Rock-Solid Boxes

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2010

You've got, like, a petabyte of music on your PC, but those built-in speakers can barely squeeze out a new-email alert. Pump up the volume with a proper desktop sound system. You're doing all of that music on your PC a disservice by attempting to filter sound through those coin-sized built-in fakers. A proper set of speakers won't set you back a month's rent and will have you rocking until the cops show up. If desktop real estate is no ...

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Word War III: Google vs. Governments

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2010

In how many ways did Google respond to this week's letter from the data protection authorities of nine countries criticizing the company's approach to privacy? The first response came in the form of a statement from Google's official PR operation. Predictably, it was blander than bland. “We try very hard to be upfront about the data we collect, and how we use it," the statement suggested. “Of course we do not get everything 100 percent right -- that is why ...

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What New Facebook Updates Might Mean for Your Privacy

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2010

Good insights are popping up deconstructing Facebook's big moves this week to extend its reach across the Web. Bottom line: You should pay attention, and consider tweaking your privacy settings again to control the experience. Basically, the giant social network wants to replicate your Facebook experience everywhere you go on the Web. It is starting with just a few launch partners for what it calls the new “Facebook Platform" -- music service Pandora, review site Yelp and Microsoft Docs. Facebook ...

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Today Facebook, Tomorrow the World

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2010

With a dizzying array of announcements this week, it seems almost inevitable that the web will become, at least for the near future, an extension of Facebook. Like it or not. In some ways it's a great development, making it simpler to connect what you read, watch and listen to. But there's a nagging suspicion that when Facebook says it's simply reacting to changing norms about how public we want our lives to be, that it's actually forging that condition, ...

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STLJN Turns Five

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 25, 2010

Though it may be somewhat difficult to believe, it was five years ago today that St. Louis Jazz Notes first went online. If you subscribe to the notion that “Internet years" are the equivalent of “dog years," that makes this site roughly 35 years old. Either way, StLJN is one of the more long-lived outposts of the jazz blogosphere, and I'm glad to have made it this far.Thanks once again to all the readers, commenters, musicians, music students ...

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Steve Wozniak on Apple Security, Employee Termination, and Gray Powell

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2010

During last weeks iPhone leak saga, Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, reached out to us with a story: The morning of the iPad launch, an engineer showed Woz an iPad for two minutes. For this he was fired. It's a story that paints Apple as many people already see the company: ruthlessly secretive, and even vindictive. It also sheds some light on the story of Gray Powell, an Apple engineer whose breach of secrecy was at once less intentional, more ...

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