Tag: Downloads
Firefox 3 hits Guinness World Record target
Mozilla has achieved its ambitious plans for the recent launch of Firefox 3.0 and set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours.
Who's joining the digital movie rental scene today? Motorola and Paramount!
If you have a Motorola telephone (commiserations, by the way) you’ll soon be able to watch a few crusty old Star Trek movies on it.
Excuse me while I go and change my trousers, I have just soiled myself with excitement.
Yes, while the world waits for Apple to pretend it’s invented 3G and video calling later today, Motorola has teamed up with Paramount to allow its users to stick movies on their handsets via their PC and a Motorola server. 40 films are…
Amazon set to launch its own streaming movie rental service "in the next few weeks"
Amazon’s big boss Jeff Bezos, speaking at the D6 conference, said the retail behemoth is planning to launch its own online video rental service rather soon.
That’s pretty much all he said on the matter, although he pointed out you’d be buying movies individually on an “a la carte” basis rather than paying a subscription, then watching via a streaming…
Motley Crue single downloaded FIVE TIMES more in Rock Band than on iTunes
If you pay attention, read regularly and maybe even take down some notes every once in a while, you may recall an update we did based around reformed dad-rockers Motley Crue releasing a single in the game Rock Band.
This was clearly a clever marketing ploy designed to help the ageing band reach “the youth” – and boy, did it ever work. The play-along Rock Band version of Motley Crue’s single sold FIVE TIMES as many…
US iTunes Store offers movie downloads on same day as DVD release
Apple has announced that users of the US iTunes Store can now purchase selected movies for download on the same day as the DVD is released.
New releases and catalog titles will be available from 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, Image Entertainment and First Look Studios…
Mobile phone music "too complicated" for most users
mum who can’t be bothered working out how to buy, organise and listen to digital music on her mobile phone – 66% of people simply have no interest in using their phones for buying music.
With most saying it’s too expensive and too awkward to put tunes on their phones, only a rather pathetic 14% of the 1800 people surveyed by Jupiter said they gave a rat’s arse about buying full tracks via their mobiles…
3 mobile sees traffic rocket sevenfold thanks to USB broadband adaptors
It’s the future. It’s definitely the future. One little USB dongle that’s your broadband connection wherever you go. No hotspot fee rip-offs, no internet separation anxieties, no worries.
And this attainable futuristic dream has resulted in a traffic bonanza for 3, with its newly cheaper USB broadband adaptor making web traffic on its network rocket by seven times in the last six months alone. Here, look, it’s so happy it’s made a graph about it:
“Sometimes the core network has been running at 102 per cent of capacity, at other times…
Downloads FTW: iTunes now bigger than largest US music retailer
CDs are on their way out. Yeah, we knew that ages ago but it takes a little while for the great buying public to catch up. The battle between digital downloads and CDs just passed a major milestone though as Apple announced that iTunes has overtaken retail giant Walmart to become the largest music retailer in the U.S. Pretty soon it’ll even be bigger than Woolies…
100% legal downloads at LegalTorrents – the day the music was re-born
Here’s one for any of you still in hiding, clutching your 12 hard drives packed full of downloaded MP3s and down to your last can of cold tomato soup. You can come out now, it’s safe – well nearly.
I wouldn’t start re-seeding your collection just yet but you can start downloading for free and shout from the roof-tops about it if you wish. Hell, call the police for a chat while you’re at it.
LegalTorrents.com was started back in 2003 as a collection of hand-picked torrents that the website’s founder, Simon Carless, had permission to use. As from today, LegalTorrents is open for the internet community to add to at will – once they’ve been approved…
Sony BMG to offer DRM-free online music subscription service?
Suddenly, music labels seem to be getting an idea of what people want, with Sony BMG’s boss talking up an online music subscription service which could be DRM-free…
