5 O’Clock Roundup, the 7 O’Clock Edition
Yes, Twitter does save all your tweets – – ReadWriteWeb asked Biz Stone about Twitter’s backup policy, and whether the company plans to stick to a pledge not to store GPS tracking info.
“We definitely save all the tweets although you’re right in noting that our… Continue Reading
Boxee adds Pandora and makes its browser more Firefox-like for Hulu
Boxee, the streaming content startup, continues to push updates out at a brisk pace. Tonight, at its meetup in New York City, it’s announcing a few new features, one of which should help bring back Hulu support.
The marquee name being added to Boxee is Pandora,… Continue Reading
Push, the movie, coming soon. Push, Apple’s notification system, not.
At last year’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) where Apple showed off the iPhone 3G and the App Store for the first time, the company noted that third-party applications would not be able to run in the background on the iPhone, but said that a solution… Continue Reading
Pandora Radio version 2.0 launching for iPhone today
Pandora Radio, Pandora’s iPhone application, was the top downloaded app in Apple’s App Store for all of 2008. By the end of the year, it had been downloaded over 2 million times. But the streaming music discovery service apparently isn’t content to rest on its… Continue Reading
MG’s ten favorite iPhone apps of 2008
Now before I write anything else, let me just say that these are my ten favorite iPhone applications of 2008 and not necessarily what I think are the ten best iPhone apps — because really, there are so many diverse apps, how can one judge which are… Continue Reading
Sprint unboxes free Pandora across its network
Us iPhone users are spoiled: We get to listen to Pandora’s streaming web music for free thanks to its brilliant application (the top downloaded app for all of 2008 in the App Store). Owners of other devices, on other networks, haven’t been so lucky, as… Continue Reading
Pandora solidifies its place as the top iPhone app with its 2 millionth user
Late last night, Apple unveiled its new iTunes 2008 section of the iTunes store showcasing the best of what the store offered this year. The area dedicated to the App Store shows the apps that have been downloaded most. So what was the top app… Continue Reading
Sonos turns your iPhone into music player remote, streams new stations
Sonos, a company specializing in multi-room wireless music players, has launched an application that turns an average iPhone or iPod Touch into a remote control for its sound system. It also announced that its ZonePlayer product — which lets you set up wirelessly networked speakers… Continue Reading
Mufin music recommendations: Half-baked or just right?
Online music recommendation engines are nothing new. Pandora is one of the most high profile, but services that do other things such as Last.fm, Imeem and now even iTunes, all offer this functionality in some capacity. Mufin hopes to stand out by doing things a… Continue Reading
Imeem revamps its site for a more cohesive online music experience
Before MySpace Music even existed, online social music service imeem had a deal with all the major labels and many of the smaller ones to stream their music for free over the Internet. The problem, is that the music was scattered all over the place,… Continue Reading
Could a digital music royalty price hike force iTunes into subscriptions?
There’s some talk today that if the National Music Publishers’ Association manages to increase the royalty rates for music bought from online music stores, Apple iTunes could shut its doors. That won’t happen. But it could force iTunes to change its business model.
The Copyright Royalty… Continue Reading
Roundup: Omaha’s Oracle bets on electric cars, web radio gets a win, a cloud computing critic, and more
In case you’re tired of reading about the markets imploding, here’s some unrelated news:
Warren Buffet invests in Chinese battery maker — He’s called the Oracle of Omaha for his ability to spot long-term trends. Take note, then, that Warren Buffet has bought almost 10 percent of… Continue Reading
Pandora launches mobile monetization strategy for the iPhone, but the royalty problem still looms
A service like Pandora is able to exist because of advertisements. The free online music discovery service has made headlines over the past year because the government decided to up the royalty rates online music streaming services have to pay when a song is played…. Continue Reading
Yahoo: The ultimate music search engine — for four artist tracks and 25 playbacks at least
The best features for any product tend to be the ones that work exactly how you think they should. You can add Yahoo’s newly revamped music artist shortcuts in its search results to that list — sort of. Simply do a Yahoo search for an… Continue Reading
Video: Upcoming version 1.1 of Last.fm’s iPhone app?
Last.fm, one of the truly great online music sites, has an iPhone app, but I find it somewhat lacking. It seems to have most of the features it needs, but for whatever reason the app just doesn’t flow well. Loading time seems to be a… Continue Reading
Muxtape gets shut down. Pandora might get shut down. Everyone is pissed off. A call for patronage.
Muxtape, the popular virtual mix tape music sharing service, was taken down today due to a “problem with the RIAA,” reads a note on their site. That “problem” likely has something to do with the storage and usage of copyrighted music. Those of us who… Continue Reading
8tracks makes it easy to mix your own music play lists, and do it legally; 3,000 passes to early beta here
The music labels haven’t made it easy for unauthorized web sites to stream music on the web. But David Porter, the founder of 8tracks, has figured out a way around the copyright law obstacles to deliver a useful and legal sharing service to music fans.
New… Continue Reading
Mama’s got a Pandora-enabled Squeezebox, daddy never sleeps at night
The Pandora app for the iPhone and iPod Touch is simply brilliant because it takes the two great elements of the web browser-based experience, music discovery and no cost, and transfers them to a portable device. Pandora had previously been available on some other non-computer… Continue Reading
Pandora and AOL Radio apps on the iPhone rock, roll users over to iTunes to buy
I have a confession to make: I haven’t listened to the radio in months. I’m fine with that, I have plenty of music on my various mp3 players, but it becomes problematic when I’m in the mood for new music. There are great online tools… Continue Reading
Roundup: Sony opens to online advertisers, Electronic Arts confirms Rupture acquisition and more
Here’s the latest action:
Sony opens to in-game ads — The company is about to announce support for ads in the PlayStation 3 video game console, and in-game advertising company IGA Worldwide will be the first to announce a deal, according to Forbes and other publications. As… Continue Reading