Category: Digital Music
MTV launching HD music channel across Europe, from September
Staring from September 15 you’ll be able to scrutinise the skin of your favourite pop star in more detail than ever before, as MTV and its parent company Viacom launch an HD music channel for quite a chunk of Europe.
Initially shaming Britney Spears in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Poland and Sweden, the channel will feature “new music” and “programming for kids,” all in English…
IFA 2008: Logitech unveil Squeezebox Boom, Digital Video System and Z-500 wireless speakers
Three radically different products, one post. I call that a challenge. Logitech have just unveiled a host of new products aimed at wildly different markets. They have just one thing in common. They’re all actually really useful, in their own ways.
First up is the Squeezebox Boom. Now that’s a fantastic name. I’m sitting here saying it right now, and enjoying every moment of it. It’s a network music player, meaning that it’ll let you listen to your music collection from anywhere in the house. Just plug it into the power, give it your wireless network’s password, and you’re off…
Songbird – 5 reasons why it's my favourite media player
Songbird, the fantastic web-integrated media player, has released a new beta 0.7 version of its software client. It’s much improved on previous versions, but most people haven’t even heard of it. I strongly believe that Songbird is worthy of a place on everyone’s computer, and here’s why…
Pure launches Evoke Flow Wi-Fi/DAB/FM radio & 'The Lounge' internet radio portal
DAB and EcoPlus radio manufacturer Pure has jumped into the world of internet streaming toady with the launch of their online portal and accompanying Wi-Fi device.
The Evoke Flow is Pure’s first Wi-Fi piece of kit and it’s designed to synch up with their new internet site while the radio sits free of your computer wherever round the house you care to put it.
Pure has named the portal The Lounge…
UPDATED: RUMOUR: Apple music subcription service – iTunes Unlimited
This is interesting – Apple have never operated a subscription service before, and Steve Jobs has gone on record saying that he didn’t like the idea of “renting” music. However, three prominent Apple blogs are all reporting that they’ve had an email from a tipster suggesting that an iTunes subscription service might be announced in late September…
UPDATED: UPDATE: RIAA talk about Muxtape, 8tracks gain a whole lot of users overnight
Despite the optimistic message on their front page, it turns out that Muxtape have been evading the RIAA for a little while.
A spokesman for the centre of all evil in the Universe trade association for record labels had this to say on the subject…
Muxtape down, RIAA blamed, users weep
Popular digital mixtape-making service Muxtape has been shut down by the RIAA. A pity, because the service was one of the best music resources online, and a big favourite here at Tech Digest…
An iPod to iPod Transfer Gadget – NOT for the iPhone.
A new gadget called the 'iPod® to iPod® Transfer Device' is on the market which allows you to 'quickly and easily transfer music, video, and pictures from one iPod to another, without the use of a computer'. You simply hook the two iPods up bottom to bottom (like a couple of mating mayflies), and as long as you have already pre-set your iPod to 'disk drive' mode, the crazy gadget allows your iPods to talk to each other and shift over it's content from one t' tother..
HoffSpace – Hasselhoff rolls his own social network
MySpace is over. It’s official. David Hasselhoff has declared that he’s abandoning the world’s second biggest social network in favour of HoffSpace – a social network of his very own…
OPINION: No lawsuits for German P2P sharers is a good thing
Lucky Germans – a bunch of law enforcement officials in Germany have declared today that they won’t be prosecuting the vast majority of file-sharing lawsuits.
Basically, they’ve (very sensibly) decided that home users aren’t worth bothering with and will only go after P2P users that share on a “substantial, commercial” level. What level is that? I’m glad you asked. Being a German, the state prosecutor of Nort-Rhine Westphalia has defined it in very prescise terms…
