Author: Stuart Dredge
P-p-p pick up a P-Per mobile phone!
Oh, hang on, you can’t pick one up – it’s just a concept product from designers Chocolate Agency. But if it was on sale, you’d want to pick it up more than a cheap chocolate bar with an Antarctic bird on the front. Promise.
MidemNet 2008: Digital music sales will match physical sales in 2009 says Sony BMG
There’s an ongoing debate within the music industry about the way rising digital sales aren’t making up for the continued slump in physical (i.e CD) sales. So while more people are purchasing music online, overall spending is down.
Fancy a £377,000 platinum PC from Japan?
Oh, c’mon, you know you do. That beige box needs to be pimped up, and if your wallet can take the strain, Tokyo firm Zeus Computer has just the thing. It’s called Jupiter, and it’s a top-spec PC housed in a case made from pure platinum. The cost? 80 million Yen – around £377,000.
MidemNet 2008: Reactable scoops musical innovation prize
Listen up musicians. The triangle is no longer the coolest instrument in the world. It's been knocked down to second place by the Reactable, a Spanish-designed piece of technology that lets multiple users create music by moving shapes around an interactive table.
MidemNet 2008: Sony Ericsson reveals more about PlayNow Arena music service
We’ve written about Sony Ericsson’s plans to take on iTunes with its PlayNow Arena service – the company announced them last November. However, it’s been giving more details at this year’s MidemNet music industry conference in Cannes, including the names of the record labels who’ve already signed up.
PANIC! Now they're making crowd-monitoring robots…
And you know that the only reason for robots to monitor crowds is so they can decide WHO NEEDS TO BE ELIMINATED FIRST IN ORDER TO SUBJUGATE HUMANITY. I know how these things work.
BitTorrent is GOOD for authors says Paulo Coelho
Most of the publicity around online piracy has focused on music and, more recently, movies. E-books are just as pirateable, but there hasn’t been the same level of protest from the publishing industry (they’re more concerned with Google’s plans to scan in books, but that’s another story).
Lancia to launch its Delta car in Second Life before real world
The hype around virtual world Second Life has died down a bit in recent months, and some companies have shut down their branded zones within it after visitor numbers didn’t match up to the press column inches when they launched. However, by contrast other brands are coming into Second Life.
Will SpiralFrog's million users help it beat its streaming rivals?
There’s been a fair amount of negative publicity about ad-supported music download service SpiralFrog in the last year, focusing on its launch delays and financial losses. But the company at last has some good news to report.
Does Joost need a boost?
We’ve written a lot about Joost in the past year, but not so much recently. There’s plenty of speculation online about how the Telly 2.0 company is doing though, following the recent departure of its CTO.
