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It's Official: Sony to Launch Music in Cloud Subscriptions Before End of Year
Sony was sort on specifics, but today announced plans to introduce “Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity," a new, cloud-based digital music service. Available by year's end, the subscription service will offer access to songs stored and synchronized through the cloud. “Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity" will initially only be available across Sony's 2010 models of network-enabled ...
iTune's Ping Social Network Won't Connect to Facebook Because of "Onerous" Terms
Tucked into yesterday's Apple presentation announcing iTune's 10 and its new social network Ping were signs that it would link to Facebook Connect. In fact, the email sent out yesterday when users signed up for Ping referenced Facebook. But there is currently no feature within Ping to connect with Facebook. Steve Jobs: Facebook Terms “Onerous" Is ...
Spotify+Sonos: Another Case for European Musical Superiority...
The European superiority complex is almost as bad as the American superiority complex—or is it the other way around? But when it comes to music, European aficionados may have the upper hand. While American labels are kvetching over monetization details, fans in Stockholm and Seville alike are kicking back in their comfy recliners. And, within a ...
The Apple Wrap-Up: All New iPods; Ping, a Music Social Network; and iTunes 10 Released, w/ New Logo
1. All New iPods 2. Ping, iTunes Social Network 3. iTunes 10 Released 4. New iTunes Logo, Something Missing. Click to find out the rest below... (UPDATED) I was lucky enough to catch a Ustream of the Apple event today; much better than watching a live blog. As always, Steve ...
My Top 4 Picks to Become Head of Google Music Plus a Dark Horse Candidate
(UPDATED) The net has been filled with rumors about who Goolgle might choose to head its new music initiative. I have no illusions that Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page pay any more attention to what I think than Tila Tequila does to writing meaningful lyrics, but I couldn't help but offer my own list of ...
Twitter Followers Get News from Today's Apple Music Announcement First and What to Expect
Steve Jobs will take the stage for Apple's big music announcement at 10AM PT / 1PM ET today and Hypebot will be tweeting the news as it happens (@hypeot, sign up here). When Jobs concludes, we'll post a summary on Hypebot. What will Apple announce today? Anything anyone writes about today's announcements is guessing based on ...
Music Not Apps Still Dominate iTunes
Despite the invasion of iPhone, iPod Touch and iPhone apps on iTunes, music still dominates the services. According to NPD re search, virtually all iPhone or iPod Touch users have downloaded a free app. But 82% report purchasing music and more than half (56%) of iTunes buyers purchase music exclusively. A majority of iTunes user search ...
Want a Global Hit? Spend More Time on Facebook.
Social networks are hugley popular in the US, but they are rapidly becoming even more so in other markets. According to Nielsen, the social network and blog category reached 74% of active internet users in the US but in Italy the number was 74% and Brazil 86% of active internet users in Brazil spent significant time ...
Why Stevie Nicks is Still Wrong (Part Two)
Let's review: Last week, famed Fleetwood Mac front-woman Stevie Nicks said a few provocative statements about the impact of the Internet on rock music and expressed her concern about how the proliferation of digital technologies has robbed our children of their social graces and driven them to no longer hang out. As we found out, even ...
DRM Tech Provider Intertrust Buys Seeqpod Assets
DRM technology provider Intertrust Technologies Corporatiohas has acquired all the software and patents developed by SeeqPod. via a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy proceeding. Intertrust has not acquired the Seeqpod domain name. Seeqpod shut down its then popular music search and play site in 2009 after several major labels and rightsholders filed lawsuits alledging copyright infringement. The search ...
