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Tony Miceli Begins a Series of Internet Live Performances, Including Guest Artists
If jazz is going to thrive in the New Millennium, musicians will need to find new venues for performance and recording. In recent years, especially for non-established younger musicians, performance opportunities with nightclubs, festivals, and standard record labels have been diminishing. If jazz is to reach a wider public, it will have to do so in ...
Hands On: Audio Bone Bone-Conduction Headphones
"Ludwig van Beethoven, the famous 18th century composer who was partially deaf, discovered Bone Conduction," asserts the Audio Bone Web site. “Beethoven found a way to hear music through his jawbone by attaching a rod to his piano and clenching it in his teeth. There have been many attempts at bone conduction listening since Beethoven, but ...
David Cook Proves iPhone Apps Are a Trojan Horse for Music Pricing
Steve Jobs' dogmatic “one price fits all" for music sold at the iTunes store faces an unlikely challenge -- from Apple itself. Jobs has held firm to his 99-cents-per-song rate with one brief exception despite pressure from the major labels to charge different prices for music depending on demand and other factors. But Apple's own App ...
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Forge Free Speech Pact
A joint effort between Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo might seem like an awkward encounter waiting to happen, but the three Internet giants confirmed Tuesday that they will work together on an initiative aimed at preserving free speech on the Web. The Global Network Initiative (GNI) is intended to provide guidance to technology companies with regard to ...
iPhone Apps Could Be the New Myspace Page
Artists and labels have a new way to strengthen ties to fans and make them buy more music: mobile phone apps, which could be the new MySpace page. An iPhone app might seem like an awkward way to distribute music when the device also supports podcasts and the iTunes music store, but the apps' versatility gives ...
Publicist/Publisher Seizes Opportunity in Micro-Blogging Craze to Promote Blues Music
Micro-blogging is a craze that is sweeping the globe. Described as “like a blog, but much smaller," users are normally limited to a maximum of 140 per post. These messages can be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user. These messages can be submitted by a variety of ...
Apple is Ready to Take a Bite of Silicon Valley
Apple is Flush with Cash $ Comments from Apple CEO Steve Jobs this week suggested that the cash-rich computer and phone maker might be in a good position to start snapping up struggling tech companies. During Apple's earnings call Tuesday, Steve Jobs proudly reported that Apple had $25 billion “safely in the bank" -- and zero ...
'Father of the MP3' Teaches Machines to Parse Music
Mufin, the latest music-recommendation engine, is going to tell you what to listen to, and it doesn't care what you think. Computers have been telling us what to listen to for years -- at least since Amazon first told us that if we like X, we might like Y. But humans always have a hand in ...
Twitter, Tagged Users Surge, but Lag Myspace
Twitter is expanding beyond the Web 2.0 elite. The micro-blogging site logged a 343 percent growth over the last year, according to a Thursday report from Nielsen Online. Twitter had about 2.4 million unique visitors in September 2008, up from 533,000 in September 2007. Following closely behind was Tagged.com, which grew by 330 percent over the ...
Samsung Blu-Ray Players Add Netflix, Pandora Services
On Thursday, Samsung announced new partnerships with two Internet multimedia companies for the purpose of incorporating audio/video streaming services into the company's latest Blu-ray disc players. Samsung BD-P2500 Samsung said it would partner with the online video disc rental company Netflix and the music recommendation and Internet radio service Pandora. Both will bring Internet-based multimedia streaming ...
