music

Android brought to MP3 players through Philips GoGear Connect

Published on: 1st September, 2010

Philips has unveiled the possibly first full-fledged and globally available, Android-based media player. Providing full Android and access to Android Market and Google Maps, the GoGear Connect focuses on media applications. Some phone-like features are also built-in, by using a camera and the option of synchronizing wireless media over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.
The Dutch company aims [...]

Google searching for a music store leader

Published on: 27th August, 2010

Google is still in search of an executive to lead the Google Music service, as rumors go. The company has talked to several digital media executives, as mentioned by AllThingsD, but it does not seem to have found the right person to lead its music store. Google has not yet commented these aspects.
The search of [...]

New colors for V-MODA’s Crossfade LP headphones

Published on: 11th August, 2010

Two new colors for V-Moda’s Crossfade LP over-ear headphones have been recently unveiled. The existing stable, which includes White Pearl, Phantom Chrome and Gunmetal Black, has been enriched with the new Rouge and Nero models. The models continue to center on 50mm dual-diaphragm drivers, which are supposed to be as efficient as a single driver, [...]

Yoko Ono does not expect Beatles music on digital stores too soon

Published on: 9th August, 2010

Yoko Ono recently said that expectations related to music of the Beatles reaching any digital music store are not realistic for the near future. The famed widow of John Lennon did not give further details but pointed out to a disagreement between Apple Corps and either Apple Inc. or EMI. She said Steve Jobs of [...]

Amazon to prepare the overhaul of its MP3 Store

Published on: 18th July, 2010

It seems Amazon is preparing an important overhaul of the MP3 store. According to unnamed sources, the online retailer is set to relaunch the APIs as well as web services in its store. The sources indicate that Amazon’s partners have to delay its MP3 integrations until the launch of the revamped portal.
Aside data from unconfirmed [...]

Google Music and Android 3.0 said to be coming in fall

Published on: 6th July, 2010

Gaurav Jain, Android Project Manager, said in an interview that Google Music should be released side-by-side with Android 3.0 before the end of 2010. He expects the music store to be launched alongside Android’s next major release, codenamed Gingerbread, during this fall. Jain also added in his talk with Calcalist (Israel) that mobile will most [...]

Libox service to provide photos, videos and music to any device connected to the web

Published on: 28th June, 2010

Libox service has been recently launched and intends to share music, videos and photos on portable electronic devices which are incompatible. Erez Pilosof, the founder of the service, wanted a simpler media sharing solution. Users of Android, iPhones, iPads and other devices are able to access web applications running in HTML, but Erez Pilosof works [...]

Touch Walkman phone from Sony Ericsson – the Yendo

Published on: 20th June, 2010

Sony Ericsson has recently outed a new device, which is the company’s first Walkman handset. Even if the Yendo isn’t Android-based, it relies on the same four-corner UI as the X10 mini, offering quicker access to music and other basic tasks. Music benefits from an upgrade, thanks to a new Walkman application, which mainly has [...]

Kazaa launches legal music service for BlackBerry and iPhone

Published on: 6th June, 2010

Founders of Kazaa have launched Rdio, which is their first service of fully legal music. Pre-track streaming will be available on the web and on mobile devices like the iPhone and BlackBerry with the payment of a fee.
Rdio is believed to abandon the conventional formula and consequently let the users to share information about the [...]

Very few of phone users download music from stores on their phones

Published on: 22nd May, 2010

Direct downloads are only a small part of the music loaded on phones, according to a comScore study. Although around 24 percent of all phones are used by their owners to play music, but only two percent of them obtained the music from stores found on the respective phones. The other 22 percent of the [...]

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