SoundCloud reaches 15 million users and announces Next, a complete relaunch of their website, including a more interactive waveform player, better profiles, reposting of your sounds, and above all – a ‘continuous’ player will shift Soundcloud towards a streaming service. The Next SoundCloud will be available in a private beta immediately. Learn more and request…
Peter Tschmuck wrote a brilliant piece on cloud music services on his blog, triggered by recent launches of Amazon’s and Google’s music locker services. He is asking the crucial question whether this might prove the main business models of the future music industry or just be another bubble to burst with the next upgrade? Like…
German Hip hopper Jan Delay discusses with Christopher Lauer, member of the German Pirate Party, who’s strongly criticised for their positions on author’s rights. Lauer confirms several times throughout the interview that the Pirate Party has no clue how artist or authors profit from this rights and insists that because files sharing exists it has…
Nokia became a synonym for weak and uninspired business, an opinion the leaving board president Jorma Ollila wants to change. In an interview with the Financial Times he announced a product campaign on tablets and ‘hybrid’ devices (whatever this may be from the perspective of a dumb phone manufacturer). Looking back he reflected that Nokias…
120 ripped CDs, with copied covers, for sale on ebay. Is this an art happening by Anonymous?
Thank you. Another music flat rate! Aspiro from Sweden launches its streaming service WiMP in Germany. The basics are no different from the other services available in Germany (Spotify, Deezer, Napster, Rara, Rdio, Juke, Musicload Nonstop, Simfy, Sony Music Unlimited) – The usual ~16 million songs from all majors and various independent labels, – 5, -EUR/month for basic access (only for the computer) – 10,-EUR/month for additional access from mobile devices – Apps for iPhone / iPad, Android, Windows Mobile 7, Symbian (yet?) no web…
Finally, following an UK court ruling earlier this week, The Pirate Bay is blocked to many UK based internet users. Virgin Media, a big UK ISP denies it’s clients access to the site now, other internet providers are expected to follow. The court decision ordered Britain’s ISPs on Monday to block access to the file…
Guardian says – well, erm, OK… The app is certainly slick, and it makes good use of the iPad’s larger screen. I’m not sure I buy into Söderström’s vision of sofa-surfing music discovery just yet, though – Spotify’s revamped Radio feature is missing, as are the apps that have made its desktop application far more than just…
Websites with religious content prove to be more contaminated with viruses than porn, Symantec said in its Internet Security Threat Report. Websites with religious or ideological themes were found to have triple the average number of “threats” that those featuring adult content, according to Symantec. “We hypothesize that this is because pornographic website owners already…
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