Apple: Mac And iPod Sales Down
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 19 May 2009 | Tagged as: Apple, Music, Platforms, Portable
Recession takes a bite out of Apple, PCs also wobble.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 19 May 2009 | Tagged as: Apple, Music, Platforms, Portable
Recession takes a bite out of Apple, PCs also wobble.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 18 May 2009 | Tagged as: Legal, Music, UK
Nearly one in ten people in the UK downloaded music last year.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 12 May 2009 | Tagged as: Audio Hardware, Music, Sony
Bullish Walkman dons reckon they’ve got what it takes to oust the iPod Touch.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 30 March 2009 | Tagged as: Advertising, Music, Services, Software
Hugely popular music streaming site offers MP3 and playlist downloads
Posted by Simon Perry on 11 March 2009 | Tagged as: Digital Rights Management (DRM), Industry Trends, Mobile, Music, Vodafone
Another one falls. Vodafone have announced that they are switching their music catalogue from Universal Music, Sony Music and EMI away from DRM-protected music to MP3 format. This makes Vodafone the first global mobile operator to do it. Not only will these tracks but DRM-free in the future, but people who have bought DRMd tracks [...]
Posted by Simon Perry on 6 March 2009 | Tagged as: Content, Music
Remix culture has just found its latest incarnation. Kutiman, a member of a collective called bacon oppenheim, has taken music videos found on YouTube and blended the audio and used the visuals to create individual versions of tracks – essentially using YouTube as a box of samples to pick from to create some great tunes.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 25 February 2009 | Tagged as: Legal, Music, UK
Naughty Brits helping themselves to fistfuls of free sounds online.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 14 January 2009 | Tagged as: BBC, Music, Web 2.0
New service offers web based ‘glanceable information’ service for radio listeners
Posted by Simon Perry on 18 December 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Legal, Music, Services
If you haven’t heard, mxiwit, the great Web service that lets people create their own online mixtape, complete with a player that looks like a real old compact cassette tape with rotating reels, is closing, describing their situation as being “between a rock and a hard place.” There’s two pieces of good news to add [...]
Posted by Simon Perry on 8 October 2008 | Tagged as: Advertising, Music, Reviews, Services, Software
For a long time, one option for the music business to save themselves has been to offer an ‘all you can eat’ option for music – pay a monthly fee and listen to all of the music you fancy.