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.
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.
