Good news (the music is financed by advertising on their website): As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website. Something we’ve wanted for years—for people who visit Last.fm to be able … Continue reading
Logitech took over Slim Devices some time ago. They are introducing a new product at the end of January, which looks like it will give Sonos a run for their money in the area of wireless streamed music at home. … Continue reading
The Economist thinks that although last year was terrible for the music industry, things will soon be even worse: IN 2006 EMI, the world’s fourth-biggest recorded-music company, invited some teenagers into its headquarters in London to talk to its top … Continue reading
The US lobby group for the music industry, the RIAA, has excelled itself this time in its heavy-handed dealing with a customer. They are suing a customer who bought 2000 tracks on CDs and copied them to his computer for … Continue reading
There was quite a lot of publicity earlier this year, when Apple struck a deal with EMI to sell their entire music collection without DRM (copy protection: digital rights management) on iTunes. And I have mentioned a couple of times, … Continue reading
For years we have used remote control units that allow you to control more than one device in the TV/hi-fi rack, thus avoiding the need to have 4 or more controllers in the lounge. I probably don’t read the right … Continue reading
This 29 second family video clip of an 18 month old boy which has a barely recognizable rendering of a Prince song playing in the background resulted in Universal filing a court complaint against YouTube to get the video taken … Continue reading
We’ve had the Apple TV for a couple of days now – the 160 GB version, which means that everything can be replicated to its hard-disk. So how do we feel it compares to the Roku SoundBridge, given that we … Continue reading
The music industry has been complaining for years that CD sales are falling, and blaming it on piracy, especially people uploading files to the internet. But could there be a far simpler explanation? Business Week has a very plausible suggestion … Continue reading
Note to self: From some time in May, iTunes should be offering DRM-free tracks from EMI. Here’s a list of artists who are signed up with EMI.