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Harvard Prof: Google Overcharges Advertisers
researcher Ben Edelman has released analysis showing that Google has continued to maintain certain advertising relationships that overcharge advertisers and violate their own policies. The main complaint is over relationships with WhenU, a vendor of spyware, typically bundled with other downloaded products. It monitors your computer usage and pops up ads, including Google ads, it claims ...
Is iTunes Transitioning to the Cloud?
Is iTunes slowly transitioning from an application that has to be downloaded to a web based storefront? In November, iTunes launched the web based iTunes preview and now they've added song previews to the site. Apple is using Quicktime to offer song samples encoded at 44.1 AAC 300+ kbits per second. For now at least, you ...
Review, Photos of the Bad Plus Now Online
The Post-Dispatch sent “Rock Candy" blogger Matthew Fernandes to review last night's performance by The Bad Plus at Jazz at the Bistro, and you can read his impressions of the show online here.Also, Jazz St. Louis has posted some photos of the band from last night to the JSL Flickr account, which can be ...
Echo Nest Raises Another $1.3 Million
Music intelligence developer Echo Nest has raised $1.3 million in venture funding. According to the SEC filing the round included 14 unnamed investors. The company previously raised a round of capital lead by Commonwealth Capital Ventures. The company's web site says that it is developing a “musical brain" to “understand the latest trends, buzz and fan ...
Netgear's New Products Take Aim at Home Media Challenges
A new media server, a media player, a switch, two powerline adapters, and three routers are among Netgear's CES 2010 products. Networking was complicated (and slow) enough when people were just sending around text and non-moving images, so the question of what to do with today's heavy-duty (and high-definition) content is one that just won't go ...
Monster Continues to Move Way Past Cables
Monster may have gotten its start manufacturing cables, but in the past couple of years, the company has expanded its offerings, most notably with its earphone and headphone lines. Today, at a press conference at CES, Noel Lee, the “Head Monster", announced even more headphones that will come with the now-familiar Monster trademark: celebrity endorsements. Dr. ...
Music Mastermind Proposes a 21st Century Musical Instrument
Technology CES: Music Mastermind proposes a 21st century musical instrument CES isn't usually a place for mulling existential questions, but here's a couple for you: What constitutes a musical instrument, and what does it mean to be a musician? I couldn't help wondering about that after seeing a demo of a prototype from Music Mastermind, a ...
A Riff Between Google and Lala? Maybe Not...
On Monday, Digital Music News lead with an investigative piece, “Suddenly, Google Focusing Music Results On MySpace". DMN content partner paidContent also featured the post. A sample of Google music searches had apparently shown many more results pointing to MySpace Music than towards Lala, which was recently purchased by Apple. The reason for the emphasis on ...
MySpace Has Started Putting Ads Where imeem Playlists Used to be
WIRED blogger Eliot Van Buskirk was more than a bit surprised to learn that an imeem playlist that he'd created on his sadly defunct Listening Post blog had become a MySpace web ad. (Click on image from the Wired post to enlarge.) Other bloggers and web sites are reporting similar hijackings. Former imeem users were already ...
Apple Acquires Its Own Mobile Ad Network
Apple review, Apple commentary, Apple news... Everything Apple Apple has acquired Quattro Wireless, giving the consumer-electronics giant a mobile ad network to rival the AdMob network that Google is in the process of purchasing. The announcement was not disclosed by Apple, but in a blog post by Andy Miller, now vice president of mobile advertising at ...
