For the Roku Nation there are two new items to make your music world better: Spotify and Vevo have been added as Roku channels for your music experience. It's part of the ongoing expansion of the digital TV / radio / streaming cocktail that's destined to be a major technology story in 2013.
Find out why the Beats + Dre + Trent Reznor collaboration on the new streaming music service called Daisy is likely to spell the death of the MOG streaming music service as we know it 2013.
Remember Turntable.FM? It would be understandable if you didn't. What became the hottest new digital music happening since the OG original Napster quickly faded away a little over a year ago. Now the people that started Turntable have launched Piki, a cocktail of social media and streaming music.
It should be the biggest update they've ever made to iTunes, but the bigger question might be ... will the new Apple Radio / iTunes Radio streaming service be part of the launch?
Rhapsody Replay recommends not just the music you like, but avoids get-up-and-jump jams in the morning if you prefer to ease into the morning commute with something chill, or avoids the chilled out downtempo beats if you prefer something slammin' with your moring dose of supercharged coffee.
Pandora Media, who runs the uber-popular Pandora Radio, has sued publishing royalties powerhouse ASCAP in the interest of paying lower royalties to songwriters. Sound evil? The NMPA (National Music Publishers Association) thinks so.
If you're undecided on what phone to buy or if you're an Xbox person ... Windows Phone 8 has some great music options with Xbox music and free Pandora Radio premium service.
The iTunes release date is now mid-November, although it’s unclear what’s holding back the release of iTunes 11. I think the new Apple Radio streaming music service is playing a role in the delay, and it’s possible that the new Apple Radio could involve an open apps development potential like Spotify apps. This would allow the Apple App Store to offer a whole range of new music apps, and compete with both Pandora Radio and Spotify.
Indie bands and movie directors should check this out ... YouTube just launched a cool new way to feature a link to your latest masterpiece in all of your old YouTube videos and audio streams, and it's called YouTube InVideo promotion.
So the news and rumors are in, the iPad Mini release date is all but written in stone. Invitations to the iPad Mini announcement have been sent ... What's up in the air for an iPad Mini release is what will be previewed at the event (iPad Mini, improved iPad and enhanced iBooks), what date orders start as well as the iPad Mini release date. There's some new thoughts on iPad Mini price, different than the last week. The iPad Mini rumors about features progress this week also: A5 or A6 processor, screen size, and will it feature retina display.
If you're and indie musician, check out what they're offering to help you with your cause. If you're a listener, you get better recommendations on music and social tools to see what your circles are listening to.
So this Xbox Music thing seems to be really happening ... anybody using one will have access to a new streaming music service being rolled out by Microsoft starting Tuesday.
Myspace is back ... and their getting ready to go live with a revamped Myspace music and entertainment experience soon. It actually looks good, and it should be interesting to see how it turns out.
The new iPhone 5 release date rolled out today, and it's Sept. 21 as predicted. The iPhone 5 rumors proved to be spot on, most of what was theorized came true. Apple is calling it their fastest Phone rollout ever ... plus there’s a massive iTunes redesign coming as iTunes 11.
If freedom's just another word for nothin' left lose, then Grooveshark might actually turn their recent run-in with the Google Play app store into a win.
We're zoning in on the iPhone 5 release date with news today of an Apple press event on September 12, and just to tease out the iPhone 5 release a shadow on the image reveals a 5, as if to suggest iPhone 5. Check out more iPhone 5 features including iOS6, NFC for iWallet, new headphones and what Gene Munster is calling the biggest upgrade in history. | VIDEO
An Auckland court just released almost $5 million for him, and a recent Twitter barrage is showing signs of where Megaupload is going, namely a Spotify-like platform that will let app creators tap into a larger Megaupload platform.
reKiosk is taking a cue from both the spread of social networks, blogs and indie publishing to create a new platform for indie musicians and writers to sell their wares.
Just like its movie counterpart Netflix, streaming music service Spotify is going meta on the global expansion ops, this time sneaking across the Canadian border to set up shop.
Even though streaming music service Grooveshark is currently in an ongoing lawsuit known as Grooveshark VS Universal Music Group, it's cruising into deeper waters today by landing ten new recording label agreements to license new music.
The iPhone 5 release date could be on us with the favored September 12 announcement from Apple only a month away. The iPhone 5 release is likely happening a week later on September 19th, 2012. The popular iPhone 5 rumors right now include a unibody design with a combination of metal and glass designed around a stronger casing and better antenna reception. An iTunesrebuild and a bigger battery are likely as well. | VIDEO
Last.FM has rolled out a redesign on many of its pages ... All in all it's a great new layout, it's clean and simplifies the user experience, giving the site a fresh and modern look.
Anybody who knows what the connection between a pencil and the old school Sony Walkman in the days of cassette tapes can rest assured that your first portable music player lives on today in the digital realm. Now there's two brand new Walman players for Android.
New music freaks will dig the fact that new releases are now shown in a streamlined grid view for better browsing. Overall, the new Rdio app seems like more of a user experience upgrade than anything else, but UX is that all important special sauce that separates the men from the boys in the streaming music services game ... either the experience is good or users stampede to one of the many other music services out there.
Remember the classic (and OG original) "music discovery" web site Epitonic, that blazed a trail in the 2000'a turning everyone on to great new music? After disappearing for a number of years, the site came back last year and has today announced a new Epitonic recording label.
What a difference a week makes. Last week the iPhone 5 release date chatted had trended towards August, now it's moved back into a more reality-based October launch. We've got talk from Verizon on why that's possible, new reports of a thinner and more vibrant screen technology, as well as some verifying of the cool new NFC technology for iWallet. There's more too, check out the week's happenings. | VIDEO
The iPhone 5 release date guessing has taken a serious turn towards the earlier, with new theories talking about an iPhone 5 release that’s been bumped up earlier to compete with the Samsung Galaxy S III. There’s talk of an August 7 iPhone 5 release date, which is different than the earlier theories that favored September or October. This would include the iOS6 release date as well, and new iPhone 5 features have emerged based on concept pictures shown after the jump.
BUZZMEDIA has bought SPIN magazine in an abundance of names with capital letters and the kind of momentum that has made BUZZMEDIA the fourth largest publisher of digital content for music. They've gone a buying rampage lately -- check out all the sites you visit that are owned by BUZZMEDIA. You might be surprised enough to use all capital letters in your reaction ...
For the growing legion of Amazon Kindle Fire people ... the second wave is coming, according to a new report this week. The Amazon Kindle Fire 2 release date should be sometime in the fourth quarter of the year, after August and September production schedules in Quanta. NPD Display Search analyst Richard Shim dropped the data on what he sees working his way through the building process, revealing these Amazon Kindle Fire 2 specs.
The new Microsoft Xbox Music will unload a new Xbox music streaming service and download store soon. They're working to license their music for the ultimate trifecta of music services: an Xbox music streaming service like Spotify, a paid download store and cloud-based storage to compete with iTunes and iCloud, and monthly and annual subscription plans.
With each passing week, the iPhone 5 release date chatter gets more lively, honing in what features will be part of an iPhone 5 release. This week was no let down as we heard talk about the iWallet that builds on the NFC Airdrop feature, doubled down on the quad-core processor and added an iPad Mini to boot. It's supposed to launch with the iPhone 5 and could make for an interesting holiday shopping season for both mobile phone and tablet buyers. | VIDEO
Have an Android phone or tablet? Android is often called out as being a poor platform for music apps and playback, but that looks set to change starting later this month.
The latest on the iPhone 5 release date comes from Mark Moskowitz, with talk of a late-in-the-year iPhone 5 release that will drive it to be the biggest smartphone in 2013. The iOS6 release date is the favorite time to coincide with an iPhone 5 release date, although they don't necessarily have to happen on exactly the same date. iOS6 could predate the iPhone release, and give an opportunity to still include it on the new phone.
Would you use the new iPhone if it was bigger than the previous one? This week’s news and rumors are pointing to some interesting ideas, lke a bigger phone to go with a bigger screen size, new dock connector, Foxconn talks big on the release and a removable lens. Would you use any of these?
The Spotify / Android nexus just got better with the release of an updated Spotify app for Android phones and Android tablets. Lots of new features: Last.FM scrobbling, improved navigation, Android 4.0 .. find out more and get your download.
Who’s tuning into what’s happening at Apple’s WWDC this week? So for it looks like Safari 6, iOS6 and iCloud ... what would YOU like to see Apple drop on us at the conference? ALSO: Check out a new video of what looks like the iPhone 5 ... if it's a fake, it's a good one. | VIDEO
With the WWDC happening soon, the iPhone 5 release date is waiting to explode. We could see a release date for iPhone 5 at the conference, but it’s possible that the iPhone 5 won’t even see any action at all ... remember last year? Check out the week's news and a couple of videos. | VIDEO
The Apple TV set seems to be getting renewed interest again after last week's AllThings D conference. The latest news point to the idea that an Apple TV update might be part of a combined package, with both the set top box and an Apple TV set as part of an overall vision for the connected TV. | VIDEO
The new iPhone 5 features revealed in this video are pretty friggin cool, even if they are just a rumor at this point. The idea behind this projector would be totally revolutionary and useful.
This week’s recap of iPhone 5 rumors include some great new concept pictures of a thinner, bigger phone; along with other great concepts like a projector and a new dock connector. A projector!
So the speculation on when the iPhone release date is ramping up right on cue, with some speculating a release date in June, others saying that the iPhone release date will be in October like last year. Find out the latest.
What could be great about the Google Drive for the Android Nation is the ability to have their own version of Apple’s iCloud, Amazon’s Cloud Drive, or any of the other variants that are sure to arrive in the next 18 months. This would create a great nexus to tie between a desktop / laptop computer, an Android Phone or tablet, and even into the living room experience as people tie their TV to the internet for a home theatre set up. You’d get all of your media (music, movies, TV shows et al) in one central spot that you can use anywhere.
For all of the people with an industry-centric view right now that make claims like Apple doesn’t need to do an iPad Mini because: 1) Steve Jobs said no, 2) iPad dominates the game so why launch another one or 3) there isn’t any more room for a new product in the tablet market, or my favorite 4)they’ll do it to *crush* the competition. Those all make sense until they don’t -- which is to say, new products and ideas come to fruition all of the time whether focus groups or market demand asks for it.
The iPhone 5 happenings for the week include a pushed back release date due to production troubles, a thinner iPhone because of new in-cell touch panels and liquid amorphous metal alloys, and a fresh new iTunes 11 with better iCloud use. Sound juicy? Find out more!
So the speculation on when the iPhone release date is ramping up right on cue, with some speculating a release date in June, others saying that the iPhone release date will be in October like last year. Find out the latest.
The iPhone 5 release date could be on us with the favored September 12 announcement from Apple only a month away. The iPhone 5 release is likely happening a week later on September 19th, 2012. The popular iPhone 5 rumors right now include a unibody design with a combination of metal and glass designed around a stronger casing and better antenna reception. An iTunesrebuild and a bigger battery are likely as well. | VIDEO
Last.FM has rolled out a redesign on many of its pages ... All in all it's a great new layout, it's clean and simplifies the user experience, giving the site a fresh and modern look.
Anybody who knows what the connection between a pencil and the old school Sony Walkman in the days of cassette tapes can rest assured that your first portable music player lives on today in the digital realm. Now there's two brand new Walman players for Android.
New music freaks will dig the fact that new releases are now shown in a streamlined grid view for better browsing. Overall, the new Rdio app seems like more of a user experience upgrade than anything else, but UX is that all important special sauce that separates the men from the boys in the streaming music services game ... either the experience is good or users stampede to one of the many other music services out there.
Remember the classic (and OG original) "music discovery" web site Epitonic, that blazed a trail in the 2000'a turning everyone on to great new music? After disappearing for a number of years, the site came back last year and has today announced a new Epitonic recording label.
What a difference a week makes. Last week the iPhone 5 release date chatted had trended towards August, now it's moved back into a more reality-based October launch. We've got talk from Verizon on why that's possible, new reports of a thinner and more vibrant screen technology, as well as some verifying of the cool new NFC technology for iWallet. There's more too, check out the week's happenings. | VIDEO
The iPhone 5 release date guessing has taken a serious turn towards the earlier, with new theories talking about an iPhone 5 release that’s been bumped up earlier to compete with the Samsung Galaxy S III. There’s talk of an August 7 iPhone 5 release date, which is different than the earlier theories that favored September or October. This would include the iOS6 release date as well, and new iPhone 5 features have emerged based on concept pictures shown after the jump.
BUZZMEDIA has bought SPIN magazine in an abundance of names with capital letters and the kind of momentum that has made BUZZMEDIA the fourth largest publisher of digital content for music. They've gone a buying rampage lately -- check out all the sites you visit that are owned by BUZZMEDIA. You might be surprised enough to use all capital letters in your reaction ...
For the growing legion of Amazon Kindle Fire people ... the second wave is coming, according to a new report this week. The Amazon Kindle Fire 2 release date should be sometime in the fourth quarter of the year, after August and September production schedules in Quanta. NPD Display Search analyst Richard Shim dropped the data on what he sees working his way through the building process, revealing these Amazon Kindle Fire 2 specs.
The new Microsoft Xbox Music will unload a new Xbox music streaming service and download store soon. They're working to license their music for the ultimate trifecta of music services: an Xbox music streaming service like Spotify, a paid download store and cloud-based storage to compete with iTunes and iCloud, and monthly and annual subscription plans.
With each passing week, the iPhone 5 release date chatter gets more lively, honing in what features will be part of an iPhone 5 release. This week was no let down as we heard talk about the iWallet that builds on the NFC Airdrop feature, doubled down on the quad-core processor and added an iPad Mini to boot. It's supposed to launch with the iPhone 5 and could make for an interesting holiday shopping season for both mobile phone and tablet buyers. | VIDEO
Have an Android phone or tablet? Android is often called out as being a poor platform for music apps and playback, but that looks set to change starting later this month.
The latest on the iPhone 5 release date comes from Mark Moskowitz, with talk of a late-in-the-year iPhone 5 release that will drive it to be the biggest smartphone in 2013. The iOS6 release date is the favorite time to coincide with an iPhone 5 release date, although they don't necessarily have to happen on exactly the same date. iOS6 could predate the iPhone release, and give an opportunity to still include it on the new phone.
Would you use the new iPhone if it was bigger than the previous one? This week’s news and rumors are pointing to some interesting ideas, lke a bigger phone to go with a bigger screen size, new dock connector, Foxconn talks big on the release and a removable lens. Would you use any of these?
The Spotify / Android nexus just got better with the release of an updated Spotify app for Android phones and Android tablets. Lots of new features: Last.FM scrobbling, improved navigation, Android 4.0 .. find out more and get your download.
Who’s tuning into what’s happening at Apple’s WWDC this week? So for it looks like Safari 6, iOS6 and iCloud ... what would YOU like to see Apple drop on us at the conference? ALSO: Check out a new video of what looks like the iPhone 5 ... if it's a fake, it's a good one. | VIDEO
With the WWDC happening soon, the iPhone 5 release date is waiting to explode. We could see a release date for iPhone 5 at the conference, but it’s possible that the iPhone 5 won’t even see any action at all ... remember last year? Check out the week's news and a couple of videos. | VIDEO
The Apple TV set seems to be getting renewed interest again after last week's AllThings D conference. The latest news point to the idea that an Apple TV update might be part of a combined package, with both the set top box and an Apple TV set as part of an overall vision for the connected TV. | VIDEO
The new iPhone 5 features revealed in this video are pretty friggin cool, even if they are just a rumor at this point. The idea behind this projector would be totally revolutionary and useful.
This week’s recap of iPhone 5 rumors include some great new concept pictures of a thinner, bigger phone; along with other great concepts like a projector and a new dock connector. A projector!
So the speculation on when the iPhone release date is ramping up right on cue, with some speculating a release date in June, others saying that the iPhone release date will be in October like last year. Find out the latest.
What could be great about the Google Drive for the Android Nation is the ability to have their own version of Apple’s iCloud, Amazon’s Cloud Drive, or any of the other variants that are sure to arrive in the next 18 months. This would create a great nexus to tie between a desktop / laptop computer, an Android Phone or tablet, and even into the living room experience as people tie their TV to the internet for a home theatre set up. You’d get all of your media (music, movies, TV shows et al) in one central spot that you can use anywhere.
For all of the people with an industry-centric view right now that make claims like Apple doesn’t need to do an iPad Mini because: 1) Steve Jobs said no, 2) iPad dominates the game so why launch another one or 3) there isn’t any more room for a new product in the tablet market, or my favorite 4)they’ll do it to *crush* the competition. Those all make sense until they don’t -- which is to say, new products and ideas come to fruition all of the time whether focus groups or market demand asks for it.
The iPhone 5 happenings for the week include a pushed back release date due to production troubles, a thinner iPhone because of new in-cell touch panels and liquid amorphous metal alloys, and a fresh new iTunes 11 with better iCloud use. Sound juicy? Find out more!
So the speculation on when the iPhone release date is ramping up right on cue, with some speculating a release date in June, others saying that the iPhone release date will be in October like last year. Find out the latest.
Google Play replaces Google Music and the Android Market into one unified experience as a music store, a Google music player, as well as a place for books, movies and Android apps for Android phones and Android tablets. Google Play also integrates the Google+ social network and YouTube music videos; plus Google Play works on iOS devices like iPhone and iPad as well as a music player.
We're right on top of the announcement tomorrow, and it looks like things have shifted from the iPad 3 name to iPad HD with a focus on HD video, as well as the new expanded streaming audio format quality announced by Apple last week.
Whether or not MOG is for sale (which we'll never know until it's announced) might not be the bigger issue here. Streaming music sites run a plenty right now, and there might be too many of them, which means ... SHRINKAGE.
The latest concept trend facing Spotify, MOG and other streaming music sites is "windowing," a concept that holds back new releases on streaming music sites and movies on sites like Netflix.
Changes are rolling out in Facebook over the next month that can impact the way you hype your band or independent film project via Facebook. Find out more.
"We live in the post-playlist era. The WiFi party is just a real-time reflection of what’s up." Find out more about what he said in the interview and watch him demo the DJ Spooky app.
The iPad 3 release date announcement is likely to be announced when Apple rolls out the news on the iPad 3 on Mar. 7 -- now an official date, ending the rumors.
Streaming music service MOG has taken its new music player out of (semi) hidden beta and will make it available to everyone next month, which is an improvement on the old MOG music player. Try it now.
If you use an Android smartphone for music, videos, the Andoid Music Store or use Google Music -- you should know about this Android phone bug that could wreck your whole set up.
The Apple iTunes Store has announced a new update -- a "Mastered for iTunes" section of music, with albums with higher sound quality in the AAC format ... this good for audiophiles and everyone else alike.
The Google Music beta bomb dropped this week via CNET, with a failed launch story about Google Music expectations and how it works with Android, YouTube, Google search and the Google+ social network. The Ggogle Music beta is part of a larger entertianment effort that includes Google TV and a cloud storage drive, pitting Google music vs iTunes vs Amazon MP3.
A new trend might go meta with streaming music sites: "windowing." It's a concept used by Netflix for new movies, wherein the new movies are held offline until about a month after their release date ...
There's an iTunes Store update coming this year, one that would update the app with a redesign and allow for better use of the in the cloud iTunes Match service that uses iCloud.
There's news of a Google TV patent that happened late last year that shows that a new Google TV Siri app (or Siri-like) is in the works, and could allow you to use an Android Phone or Android tablet to remotely set up your Google TV to turn on automatically as you arrive home to a specific channel.
It looks like there's another Microsoft music service brewing ... Microsoft is reportedly in talks with the major record companies about some type of Microsoft music player that could be extended to support Xbox, Windows Phone, Windows Mobile and even peeps on Microsoft's Zune Music Pass.
A recently surfaced screenshot of the so-called “Google Drive," has been spotted in the wild. The new Google Drive could be a cloud storage drive for Google Music or Google TV, as well as the interesting Google entertainment device that’s been talked about.
The iPad 3 release date now features a confirmation of the Retina Display. Also included for the iPad 3 release date are a Mar. 7, 2012 announcement in San Francisco and the debate around rumors of iPad 3 specs like 4G LTE wireless with Verizon and AT&T, and questions around price and how Siri, iTunes, the vaunted new A6 processor and iCloud will play in.
The week that was -- an iTunes update. The Apple App Store in iTunes is close to the download of 25 billion apps, there’s iTunes privacy issues for iOS users on iPad and iPhone along with a price hike on Whitney Houston albums. Oh, and Steve Jobs won a Grammy Award, can you match that?
Apple CEO Tim Cook offered an Apple TV update yesterday at the the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, saying that the Apple TV hobby is one that's always under review, with iCloud and Siri a major part of the Apple's media future. These are likely to be major Apple TV features in the future.
MySpace announced news that it added over a million new MySpace users in January, which they're saying comes from a fresh new Myspace Music Player. Add recent news of MySpace TV, as well as Justin Timberlake being in on the deal and you've got the story of the comeback kid.
Google has updated its YouTube app for Google TV, to offer more YouTube channels and make Google TV a more seamless experience for finding music and videos. The app has a new feature called “Discover,” for finding YouTube channels by categories, and also a new look and functionality for YouTube channels pages.
The new Google entertainment device that was unearthed in the media this week seems to be generating a lot of excitement for a still undefined product. It's a Google home entertainment system for streaming music, or videos, or both.
We can focus on the iPhone 5 release date, now that the iPad 3 release date is firming up. The best iPhone 5 rumors right now suggest that the release is due for June 2012, and guesses around the iPhone 5 price.
So the news is in about the iPad 3 release date announcement: AllThingsD said this week that Apple sources are pointing to an announcement in the first week of March 2012 to announce the "successor" to the iPad 2.
The debate over Spotify royalties, whether to go with the free or premium service, and the future. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek weighs in on the what he see's as the future of streaming music services.
Good news for people who like good news ... about music on Android. The Rhapsody app as a full-on, full-screen experience has been released. This is no resized phone app, it's the full package.
There's a new Best Buy survey out today asking customers about a number of Apple TV features they might want for a new Apple TV set ... do they know something we don't?
Good news for people who like good news ... about music on Android. The Rhapsody app as a full-on, full-screen experience has been released. This is no resized phone app, it's the full package.
The idea of "reselling" your old MP3 music is a novel idea to most of us ... how can it be "used" or "recycled" if it's a digital file? This is at the heart of the case, and it's going to have an affect on what it means when we buy music and what we actually "own" a digital file. OK, I'm done overusing "quotes" (for now).
Anybody hoping for an ARM-based MacBook Air might have to wait ... possibly forever. The iPad and forthcoming iPad 3 release will probably get more attention.
The release date if the new iPad 3 from Apple might have been accidentally leaked by Amazon, with books for the iPad on the site with a release date of ...
You could watch music videos and live performances in your chill living room in HDTV, with the speakers turned up on your sound system. Throw in a touch screen remote from an iPad or iPhone and iCloud apps for media and the use of iTunes, and you'll have a steady diet of media.
The Midem Music Conference has brought new data to light about the Facebook Music experience which launched last Fall: over 5 billion songs have been shared via Facebook. Find out more and watch a video.
If you're using the Spotify iPhone app or the Spotify Android app, you might be one of these people, as the most current Spotify paid subscribers count has reached 3 million people worldwide.
An Apple TV update on rumors and news for the Apple TV set a.k.a. iTV, with Siri features and a touch screen remote from an iPad or iPhone for changing channels and navigation on your TV, Apple TV apps using iCloud and iTunes. Apple TV vs Google TV is sooo on, plus the formation of MySpace TV will all make 2012 a fun year.
You might not have known that there was a Spotify lawsuit going on ... one that would have killed Spotify in the U.S. The good news: it's been settled, and Spotify will live on ...
The festival wristband ... the long-held symbol of a day or weekend in
the sun listening to music. Good times. But the music festival
wristband of the past was simple compared to the electronic, RFID
(radio frequency ID) wristbands we see today. It might be in use at
next year's Glastonbury Festival, according to festival organizer
Michael Eavis.
The Pirate Bay wants you to know that it's not down with the SOPA and PIPA bills that freaked the Internet out last week ... but they have no fear of it taking the Pirate Bay down.
Google Music has launched a new music feature called Google Magnified Artists for independent artists in the Android Music Store and Artist Hub that gives them an opportunity to gain visibility on Youtube Music and Google+, with the intent of raising them out of the clutter of online noise of the Internet. Since it's hard to get noticed for indie bands, Google Magnified hopes to change that."
The Pirate Bay wants you to know that it's not down with the SOPA and PIPA bills that freaked the Internet out last week ... but they have no fear of it taking the Pirate Bay down.
Here's the response by Digital Music News publisher and founder Paul Resnikoff yesterday to being subpoenaed by Grooveshark in the Grooveshark VS Universal Music Group court case.
Just when you thought The Pirate Bay was down as a place for you to find new music, comes an alternative -- and it's being launched by the Pirate Bay itself. Called The Promo Bay, it gives independent musicians, film makers, authors and artists the ability to promote themselves.
Grooveshark joins the list of HTML5 apps for streaming music sites, skipping the Apple App store and Android Market to launch a Grooveshark mobile app for iPhone, iPad and Android. They’re calling it the Grooveshark Sooper Secret Beta.
In the run up to last year's big Facebook Music launch, which included streaming music sites like Spotify, MOG, Rdio and Rhapsody; there was talk about how all of these would tie into a massive Facebook Music player that would allow a simultaneous listening experience to happen. For whatever reasons unkown to the masses, the Facebook Music player was scrapped before the f8 conference and never mentioned again. Until now.
MySpace dropped one of the first official offerings this week at the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas: They were getting itno the connected TV game with MySpace TV.
Although the first streaming music site mentioned by people these days might be Spotify, Rhapsody actually has the most users in the U.S. out of the big four streaming music sites of Spotify, MOG, Rdio and Rhapsody.
Shazam has launched a new app called the Shazam Player, with the ability to give you song lyrics in real time with a song. It also works with Facebook and Twitter so you can be social about what you're singing along to. Look for the iPad as the hot new Karaoke app by using the Shazam Player app!
Slacker Radio has launched three new custom radio stations, something they've been championing over the past year. This time it's RJD2, The Parlotones and Blue October.
Let's look at new Apple iPad 3 features and specs that went down over the holiday break: a new iPad 3 in two sizes, extended iPad 3 battery life, face recognition to go with Siri voice recognition ... also iTunes Match & iCloud inclusion with an A6 processor chip. An iPad 3 release date is possible in early 2012, but is still rumor and speculation.
Fresh ideas this morning about a possible new but smaller iPad 3, to live alongside smaller tablet computers. Other iPad features include Siri, iTunes Match and more.
If you laughed at the thought of an in-car Pandora Radio, think again: Pandora Radio data shows that its use is up 13 to 25 percent in the top 10 cities, including New York.
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