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Rockmoto Matches Music with Motorcycles
Motorcycles and rock and roll - it seems like a pretty obvious connection. But no one's been helping to make it, until now. The Motorcycle Industry Council has launched RockMoto.com, a music centered social networking site to foster the connection that includes Features include: Pandora-enhanced music player: A partnership with Pandora allows community ...
How Youtube Changes the Way We Think
Two years ago, a YouTube member named MadV—who silently performs magic tricks while wearing a Guy Fawkes mask—put up a short, cryptic video. He held his hand up to the camera, showing what he'd written on his palm: “One World." Then he urged viewers to respond. The video was just 41 seconds long, but it caught ...
Tuneroom Finds then Sends Songs to Mobile
MP3.com founder and serial entrepreneur Michael Robertson is at it again; this time helping to further his belief that mobile phones are the next MP3 players. Tuneroom is a music search engine designed to send songs wirelessly to any mobile phone and serve as a compliment to his previously launched Load2Mobile which wirelessly loads song collection ...
Music Industry Looks to Internet for Revival
A generation after the launch of MTV, major record labels are hoping to revive the music video business online by creating a single digital destination for their artists’ output. Plans under discussion include: a partnership with Hulu, the online television and film joint venture between News Corp and NBC Universal; the creation of a premium service ...
Broadband Stimulus Plan: How About Some Data First?
During the Great Depression, the government tried to revive the economy with the New Deal's public work projects, and ended up paying people to dig unneeded ditches. In today's deep recession, digital age advocates are trying to persuade President-elect Barack Obama to put billions into a nationwide broadband build-out as part of his planned economic stimulus ...
Games May Revitalize Aging Brains
Turns out all of Nintendo's “Train Your Brain!" hoopla may not be hoopla after all. Reuters reports that a new study shows older adults who played a videogame for a month demonstrated improved scores on tests of their cognitive functions, including memory, reasoning, and multi-tasking. But here's some not-so-good news for Nintendo: The game they played ...
EU Prefers iTunes 2 to 1 but Amazon Gaining Share
European broadband consumers who regularly listen to music on computers and MP3 players are twice as likely to purchase music from iTunes than from any other online store according to research from Strategy Analytics. The new report which is based on online interviews with broadband users in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK, also notes that ...
Kill the CD to Save the Industry, Study Advises
The music industry must move away from the retail CD as its primary revenue generator before Christmas 2009, according to a new Gartner study which says the reliance on revenue from the sale of CD's is hindering the music industry from fully embracing online distribution opportunities. “By propping up the CD business, rather than fully investing ...
Facebook Joins Myspace in Project Playlist Ban
Late last week MySpace responded to notices from the RIAA by banning all ProjectPlaylist widgets from its site. Yesterday Facebook followed suit. “The RIAA initially contacted Facebook last summer requesting the removal of the Project Playlist application for copyright violation, and recently reopened those communications. We have forwarded the RIAA's letters to Project Playlist so ...
How Norad Tracks Santa
Santa Claus may be able to fly around the world in a sleigh, but even he can't cross North American airspace without NORAD knowing about it. For more than 50 years, the joint American-Canadian air command that safeguards the continent against aerial attack has used its sophisticated tracking technology to follow Kris Kringle's journey and provide ...
