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Google Music Downloads Coming, Subscription Next
In what could prove to be a welcomed move for music labels, Google Inc. is planning to release a music download service that's tied to its search engine later this year. The Wall Street Journal is also reporting that Google will introduction of an online subscription music service sometime in 2011. Many hope that this will ...
First iPhone 4 Reviews Mostly Sing Its Praises
Just when you thought a few lucky customers beat the rest of the world to getting an iPhone 4, some technology journalists with early access to the device just published their reviews. Apple typically handpicks a select group of publications to get early review units, and the first round of reviews comes from The New York ...
Muziic: Over 250 Million Songs Streamed
Muziic, that amazing piggybacker/exploiter of YouTube, recently announced that it has streamed over 250 million videos to its users. Developed by an Iowan teenager named David Nelson, Muziic is a desktop application (and, as of this March, an iPhone and also a Facebook app) that scours YouTube for song streams which people can basically use like ...
Mixlr: Share Live Music on the Web
Exclusive: Free Broadcast Codes Broadcasting DJs and live acts onlinecan besurprisingly hard.Mixlr providesa simple way for musicians to share live music on the web. That means that means no more messing around with IP addresses and ports, or trying to make a video streaming service do something it's not meant to. With the service artists can ...
The Future of Location Data
Data about the geographic locations of people and things will in the near-term future become a massive flow of sensor, satellite and citizen input made freely available to developers through government and other collaboration programs. It will be available in real time, to and from mobile devices, and be machine processed to pick out objects and ...
First RIAA File Sharing Trial Morphs into Groundhog Day
In a bid two avoid a third trial after two mistrials the Minnesota federal judge presiding over the 4-year-old Jammie Thomas-Rasset case wants the Recording Industry Association of American and the defendant to negotiate a settlement. But, as Thomas-Rasset's attorney, Joe Sibley, said in a telephone interview Monday, a settlement is not likely to happen. The ...
You've Got Web-Based Gmail
In the world of mobile devices and slate computers, the difference between a downloadable application and Web application is increasingly blurring. In many cases the two can look strikingly similar, using homogeneous design and interaction techniques. Sometimes the Web version of applications can also outdo a downloadable equivalent. Google hopes to push that boundary even further ...
Targeted Ads Will Let You Spy on Them for a Change
If an advertiser knows you like the artist Jasper Johns, it could use targeted advertising to tempt you with prints of his 'Target' painting; a new standardized mechanism will let you opt-out of such targeted ads later this summer. Advertisers have grown much more sophisticated since the early days of the web and can now target ...
Apple Collecting Sharing iPhone Users' Precise Locations
Big Apple is Watching. In an updated version of its privacy policy, the company added a paragraph noting that once users agree, Apple and unspecified “partners and licensees" may collect and store user location data. When users attempt to download apps or media from the iTunes store, they are prompted to agree to the new terms ...
iPhone's New 'FaceTime' Video Calls Are Free
Looking to save money on your wireless bill? Have the new iPhone? Maybe you should start making video calls instead. With this week's launch of the new iPhone 4 and it's accompanying software, the Apple smartphone now enables a video calling feature by way of a new application called “FaceTime." And apparently, these videos calls, unlike ...
