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Sanyo R277 Delivers Internet Radio Without a Computer
The table-top box provides access to thousands of stations and will wake you up in the morning. Online radio, which can pick up thousands of stations from around the world, is one of the wonders of the Internet. Except that it isn't very convenient, mostly because it's generally tied to a computer. That means listening in ...
2008 CD and Ringtone Sales Fall, Digital Growth Slows
For the 52-week period ending December 28th, according to retail data collected by Nielsen SoundScan: Physical album sales were down 20% Overall album sales dropped 14% after digital was added This follows a 15% drop in '07 and represents a 45% decline since a high in 2000 Digital track sales were up ...
$800 Million Invested in Music Tech in 2008
On his Indie Music Tech blog, Duncan Freeman lists more than $260 million in investments by angels and and venture capitalists in music tech companies during 2008. After including deals where the exact terms weren't disclosed, as well as, more than $520 million in mergers and acquisitions, he totaled a whopping $800 million in music tech ...
JazzWax FAQ: Questions Answered
Now that we've reached the end of one year and the start of a new one, I figure now is as good a time as any to tie up a few loose ends. In the past couple of months, I've received quite a few emails from new readers asking about JazzWax and how things work. Here, ...
Billboards Free Send a Tune to a Soldier
Send a Song to a Soldier Give the gift of free music to a Soldier in the U.S. Army this holiday season, completely free of charge. Billboard's got the free tunes. You have the message. Just fill out the simple form below, and we will send your message and a unique PIN Code for ...
Will Apple Launch a Quad-Core Macbook Pro at Macworld?
Some are speculating that Apple's top-of-the-line notebook could receive a significant chip upgrade at January's Macworld Expo. When Apple refreshed its MacBook family in October, it mysteriously left out the 17-inch MacBook Pro -- Apple's high-end notebook designed for creative professionals. Incidentally, APC noticed Intel quietly added a new quad-core mobile processor to its CPU line. ...
Apple Shares Drop as Jobs Health Rumors Resurface
The company refuses to comment on Web report. The stock is down 56% for the year. Shares of Apple Inc. were on their way to a gain Tuesday when a website reported that Chief Executive Steve Jobs was in “rapidly declining" health. The company's stock sank from about $88 to $84.72 within minutes of the report, ...
U.K. Plans to Ask U.S. for Website Ratings
The U.K. minister for culture plans to not only work to establish a movie style ratings system for Web sites, but to work with the Obama administration to implement a similar program within the United States, Reuters reports. As of now, there has been no response from the president-elect. The kind of ratings used for films ...
New Web Technologies of '08 You Need to Use Now
Every year, we see scores of innovations trickle onto the web — everything from new browser features to cool web apps to entire programming languages. Some of these concepts just make us smile, then we move on. Some completely blow our minds with their utility and ingenuity — and become must-haves. For this list, we've compiled ...
MP3 Player Saves Pair Lost in Mountains
In what could have been a tragic ending, a pair of French outdoor enthusiasts were saved when they became lost in the Swiss mountains, Reuters reported. What saved them? The faint light of their MP3 player, which rescuers were able to see. The light from an MP3 player saved two lost tourists from a chilly night ...
