Author: Stuart Dredge
EMI to sell entire Radiohead back-catalogue on bear-shaped USB stick
So, hang on. Radiohead have seen out their contract with their label (Parlophone – part of EMI), and struck out on their own with the innovative digital release of new album ‘In Rainbows’. But now EMI’s launched a website called Radiohead Store, to sell special versions of the band’s seven albums from when they were under contract. Cheeky.
NTT DoCoMo provides Japanese users with mobile earthquake warnings
Not content with blowing my mind with its vision of a 4G future, NTT DoCoMo has just announced a bunch of new handsets and services for Japan. The most intriguing: an earthquake warning system for phons called Area Mail.
Kylie Minogue launches her own social networking site
Kylie Minogue isn’t just launching her new album: she’s taking on Facebook with her very own social network too.
Vodafone goes live with MusicStation mobile music service
We knew it was coming, but this morning Vodafone went live with MusicStation, the £1.99-a-week music subscription service from Omnifone. They even persuaded Girls Aloud to totter along to the launch and grab the first downloads through the service.
It’s launching with 1.2 million tracks available, as well as live charts, personalised music news, and social networking features letting users sign up friends and share their playlists.
Analysis: Can the Nokia Music Store take on iTunes?
Nokia cut the virtual ribbon on its Nokia Music Store this morning in the UK, so I’ve spent the last few hours playing with it. You can read the blow-by-blow account of my first hour or so here, and check out a few screenshots here, but this post is an attempt to set down the strengths and weaknesses of the service in a more organised fashion, and come to a verdict about how it compares to iTunes.
More screenshots of the Nokia Music Store in action
This is just a companion post to my earlier blow-by-blow review of the Nokia Music Store, which went live in the UK today. Feast your eyes on the shot above, and the others after the jump, to see how it all works. The one above is the genre category page (click on them to get bigger versions)
Nokia Music Store review: blow-by-blow with the wannabe iTunes-killer
So, Nokia’s Music Store has finally gone live in the UK this morning, albeit just slightly later than the promised 7am opening time. I got straight on there to roadtest the service and see how it compares to iTunes. My collected thoughts are below, but the topline is this: good design and usability, a nice selection of music, some niggles around payment and compatability, and the unlimited streaming feature experienced some early teething problems. But read on for the blow-by-blow account.
Google Phone revealed as E28 Linux handset! Well, maybe…
The blogosphere’s abuzz today with reports that this is the Google Phone (or Gphone, depending on your preference). It’s a handset from Chinese manufacturer E28, which has been pegged as being the likely core of the Gphone, with Google’s suite of applications closely integrated.
How do you recycle a tonne of vibrators?
Earlier this year, sex toy firm LoveHoney announced a vibrator recycling scheme (no, it didn’t mean selling secondhand Rampant Rabbits – that’s recycling as in breaking down and reusing for other stuff). Anyway, they’ve just released a video showing the first tonne of donated vibrators being crunched at the SWEEEP recycling centre in Kent. Check it out below.
Want to know about file-sharing? Ask a nine-year-old girl…
Despite the music industry’s crackdown on illegal P2P file-sharing, there’s still a lot of people doing it – and many of them are kids. So why haven’t they been put off by the legal threats? TorrentFreak decided to ask one, a nine year-old girl called ‘Hannah’ (not her real name, and no, that’s not her in the picture).
