Tag: Downloads
In-Depth Review: Nokia's Comes With Music service
With the news that the Nokia X6 music orientated phone has hit the 3 network, we thought we'd give the X6's Comes With Music service an in depth look. With the iTunes store now reaching the 10 billion download mark,…
Apple iTunes store hits the 10 billionth download mark
The Apple iTunes store is now 10 billion downloads old! After a two week countdown, the milestone has been reached, which also awards one lucky customer a $10,000 Apple gift card. "iTunes changed the way you buy music, making songs…
One Bird Records digital singles label launches
One Bird Records, a new London-based independent record label, has just launched. Focussing on digital distribution, One Bird Records looks set to be a one-stop haven for up and coming artists, blurring the lines between record label, artist management, A&R,…
Could next-gen Ovi store be Nokia's big news this week?
Nokia are planning to hold a press conference in London this coming Thursday, which promises to reveal "big news" relating to their Ovi services. Executive Vice President Anssi Vanjoki has confirmed his attendance, suggesting that the "big news" may not…
X-OOM MediaGrabber download engine launched
Searching for free downloads from your favourite artists can sometimes be a painstaking task. There are so many bogus sites out there just waiting to install malware onto your computer that it can be as dangerous as it is time…
1 million Ovi Store downloads a day claim Nokia
While it hasn't always been plain sailing Nokia's Ovi Store, it looks like things are final looking up for the mobile marketplace. According to George Linardos, Nokia's Vice President of Product/Media, the store is now generating roughly one million downloads…
Mewbox brings DRM-free music downloads to Android phones
Powered by 7Digital, Mewbox offers DRM-free downloads of 4 million tracks.
Now you can stream the Beatles – well sort of
So while there's no Strawberry Fields or any other John classics, we7 users can stream Hey Jude, Eleanor Rigby and Yesterday and even embed them on other sites too
Google launching free, legal, music downloads… in China
Internet giant Google today launched a service that provides completely free, legal downloads of songs from all four major labels. The caveat? It’s only available in China. Damn.
There will be over 350,000 tracks available at launch, from both Chinese and Western markets. Users will be able to search by artist and song name, but also by the level of ‘beat’ in the song, and its ‘instrumentality’, whatever that is.
Google’s making the move due to massive levels of piracy in the world’s most populous country. The search engine lags behind its competitor Baidu in the country, mainly thanks to Baidu’s MP3 search functions. This launch should help Google compete in a market where 99% of music consumed is illegal.
Google’s free music service (via Reuters)
Amazon quietly launches casual game downloads
Suddenly, unannounced, Amazon has enabled a casual games download service in the States. It’s got more than 600 available, each costs less than $10, and there’s a try-before-you-buy service available to, where you can play a game for 30 minutes before you buy it.
No sign of anything more hardcore, this is so far just limited to Bejewelled and the like, but if this is a sign of things to come then it could be the shot in the arm that PC gaming needs. Especially if recent figures suggesting that half of PC game purchases are digital is true.
Amazon Games Downloads (via Kotaku)
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