Posts Tagged with ‘iTunes’

For years and years there have been those who believe (myself included) that the music industry is no longer developing quality music that people actually want to hear, but rather relying on revenue-generating formulas and focusing solely on financial details with no regards to the quality of the music being created. It is more about deadlines and budgets.
Of course, major label record executives see no problems with that since they are taking in the cash, but there is a reason [...]

Well, it?s happened. Sony BMG announced it is ?finalizing plans to sell songs without copyright protection? sold via the Web.
And here we were just starting to appreciate the resistance the recording giant had thus far erected in the face of inevitable change.
Okay, actually, to be straight with you, no, we didn?t so much as give the company a passing smirk in our own coverage of its stubborn refusal to bend to consumer demand. But let?s shelve the nasty talk [...]

Know what hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and tech industry extraordinaire Steve Jobs have in common? Apparently a record company.
So some in the blogosphere are predicting will be the news later this month, anyway. The Boy Genius Report was one of the first to point out Wednesday the odd indication that a joint venture by the Apple CEO and former head (Pres.) of Def Jam is supposedly set for public debut. Why odd? Primarily because Mr Jobs hasn’t [...]

The year is almost through. Eggnog’s running low. The once fresh-cut Douglas-firs placed inside millions of homes over the holidays are running dry and approaching their final demise. Bottles of bubbly are being prepped and placed on standby for the global celebration to happen next week for the new calendar’s arrival.
So I think it’s only fitting to follow convention here and offer up a few wise words in anticipation of suspected things to come in the wide world of Web [...]

Unlike many retail giants of mostly brick-and-mortar, chain-linked proportions headquartered in the US, Amazon has shown a nice finish to 2007. The company, one of the largest of all online retail outlets, displayed a record number of sales this month – 5.4 million for the day of December 10th alone - effectively pushing the marketplace to a 13-year high, reported the London Times yesterday.
And there’s more. The mega-success, in tandem with the Warner Music Group, also revealed earlier this [...]

We first covered Jango in late October. We published a brief review of the startup, in which we essentially laid out an admiring conclusion overall. How to sum it up? Basically, we found it to be an appealing play on the Pandora concept, one with a rather unique approach. Its feature set could also be said to harbor a few touches new to the market.
And in addition to its initial launch setup, we also received a few words about its [...]

Yesterday, Amazon let known its establishment of a partnership between itself and the European startup SellABand. The association it will have with SellABand is simple: it will sell music released by artists developed through the independent service.
Why do we share this piece of information with you? Well, as many already know, Amazon several months ago unveiled its long-awaited music download service, appropriately named AmazonMP3. It was generally hailed by the blogosphere as welcome competition to Apple’s dominant iTunes [...]

Alright, say you?re an Apple devotee. You may be, you may not be. But, just for kicks, let?s pretend there?s a bit of a love affair going on between you and Cupertino.
How then do you satiate your craving for Apple news? Presumably with a steady diet of blog posts, the produce of rumor mills, maybe even a subscription to a magazine or two. Yes? Okay, well, that?s good and fine, but what about the video angle? How do you [...]

Although online video and television programming offerings have surged over the past year, one particular aspect of the experience, the pricing scheme, can turn out quite costly if viewers are paying $2 to $3 per episode of a show. Not to mention the fact that, as we have seen with Google, purchased videos may not be yours to keep forever.
Now, aiming to keep its pricing strategy more in line with traditional television, SyncTV is a new TV download service running [...]