Tag: Itunes
Rolling Stones get DRM-free satisfaction with 7digital
Online music store 7digital has announced something of a coup: it’s selling more than 20 Rolling Stones albums as DRM-free 320kbps MP3 files for £5.49 per album. I repeat: £5.49 per album. And it includes all the classics (hello, Exile On Main Street and Sticky Fingers), not just their newer stuff and live compilations.
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 21-Aug-07: iTunes, Japan, email, iPhones, Bjork
– A church in Florida is boosting numbers with free iTunes giveaways (Engadget)
– The Japanese government hopes to replace the internet by 2020 (Slashdot)…
iTunes gets John Lennon solo catalogue: one step closer to Beatles downloads
That Yellow Submarine iPod is still stubborn in its refusal to decloak, but Apple has signed another Beatley deal, having launched sixteen of John Lennon’s solo albums, including the first digital releases of his ‘Lennon Legend’ and ‘Acoustic’ compilations.
Opinion: Welcome to widget world, Apple. What took you so long?
Stuart Dredge writes…
Hurrah for Apple! No, this isn’t another paen to the iPhone posted from Steve Jobs’ lower colon. I’m just excited about the fact that Apple has thrown its hat into the Web 2.0 bandwagon (gotta love them mixed metaphors) with the launch of My iTunes.
As we explained earlier, My iTunes is a collection of three flash-based widgets that can be embedded into your website, blog or social networking profile. They show your recent iTunes Store purchases, an artist tag cloud (again based on purchases), and music you’ve reviewed on iTunes.
Parappa man puts his Musika on iPod
You may not have heard of Masaya Matsuura, but you’ve probably played one of his games – or one of many clones his insane-genius mind has inspired.
Matsuura is the curious brain behind Parappa The Rappa, one of PlayStation’s coolest and most original games. He also made cult smash Vob-Ribbon, in which a vector man ran along scenery
More Nokia rumours: N81 8GB music phone to accompany music download service?
The anticipation is building in the run-up to Nokia’s London event on 29th August, which has already been fingered as the launch of its Will Nokia launch an iTunes-rivalling online music service?“>iTunes-rivalling music download service.
Apple may be planning ad-funded iTunes, according to UK Copyright Tribunal
If you’re not a music industry executive, you probably haven’t spent much time perusing the documents from the recent UK Copyright Tribunal’s decision on online royalty rates for music publishers. But some people have, and they’ve turned up evidence that Apple is planning to introduce ad-funded music on iTunes.
Opinion: Nokia's iTunes rival has to be more than a me-too music service
Stuart Dredge writes…
So, it seems Nokia is about to take the wrappers off its ‘proper’ music download service, according to the well-sourced article in Fortune Magazine that we wrote about earlier. It’s not even a secret that Nokia’s been planning to launch a rival to iTunes: last August, Nokia bought mobile music firm Loudeye, and said at the time that one reason was its intention to launch “a comprehensive music experience to Nokia device owners during 2007”.
Will Nokia launch an iTunes-rivalling online music service?
Nokia could well be gearing up to launch its own mobile music download service, if recent reports in Fortune Magazine are proved correct.
Sources close to Nokia’s CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, claim that the new worldwide service could launch on 29th August at a London event featuring live music at the Ministry of Sound nightclub.
They also claim that the system would work much like iTunes, offering downloads of music tracks to a PC for transferring to mobile devices – either Nokia’s own, or others via DRM software.
NikePlus runners clock up 22 million miles
The frankly ridiculous idea of letting your iPod talk to your trainers and then posting all the data online seems to have taken off, with users of the NikePlus service registering a total of 22 million miles total running distance.
That’s the equivalent of running from London to Bristol…
