Posted January 25th, 2010 by Jonny
Posted January 25th, 2010 by Jonny
Some valuable insights on Apple’s tablet bid with publishers and eBooks over at 9to5Mac.
“Apple has been moving very aggressively over the past month and has stepped it up since the event announcement last week. Both said they’d be surprised if Apple doesn’t have a deal of some sort worked out by launch. This wouldn’t necessarily be a nuts-and-bolts type of deal, but one where they agree to work together. Apple can say at the event we’ve signed up “all of the major publishers”,” reports Seth Weintraub.
Looks at the Apple v. Amazon rivalry and notes the latter firm’s recent defensive moves.
Posted January 25th, 2010 by Jonny
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is highly excited at the soon-to-be-revealed Apple tablet, telling friends and close colleagues, “This will be the most important thing I’ve ever done”, according to TechCrunch.
“We haven’t heard this first hand, but we’ve heard it multiple times second and third hand from completely independent sources. Senior Apple execs and friends of Jobs are telling people that he’s about as excited about the upcoming Apple Tablet as he’s ever been.”
This from a man whose had a hand in with the invention of the PC, the mouse-based interface, the implementation of typography on computers for graphic design, the iMac, iPod and iPhone.
We’ll learn more on Wednesday.
Posted January 25th, 2010 by Jonny
Hit cult US online show ‘The Guild’, seasons 1-3, will be available for download on iTunes, for the first time ever, starting today.
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Posted January 24th, 2010 by Jonny
Introduced today at Midem, MusicDNA is a new type of music file that’s being heralded as the successor to the MP3. Based on an MP3 file it also displays everything band related – from lyrics, artwork and tour dates to blog posts, videos and twitter feeds – in the music player itself, while the tune is playing.
Posted January 24th, 2010 by Jonny
If you are in the mood to fill your iPod/iPhone, or just want to wrap your ears around some unusual music, don’t want to spend any cash as you wait for payday at the end of the month, or are feverishly saving a few cents for an Apple tablet, then here’s a suggestion – take a trip inside the world of ancient audio…
Music has its own history. if you are interested in that history, then you may want to explore some of the sites now appearing on the ‘net which make digitised versions of 78rpm and cylinder recordings available to download.
Posted January 24th, 2010 by Jonny
Motorola has filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission (ITC), alleging that RIM has engaged in unfair trade practices by selling products that infringe on five of Motorola’s parents.
The five patents listed in Motorola’s complaint relate to certain early-stage innovations developed by Motorola in key technology areas, such as Wi-Fi access, application management, user interface and power management, that are now being used by RIM.
Motorola has requested that the ITC commence an investigation into RIM’s use of Motorola’s patents and, among other things, issue an Exclusion Order barring RIM’s importation of infringing products; prohibiting further sales of infringing products that have already been imported; and halting the marketing, advertising, demonstration and warehousing of inventory for distribution and use of such imported products in the United States.
Posted January 23rd, 2010 by Jonny
Answer: We don’t know – bound to generate some interest.
We note the clip doesn’t always seem to load correctly, suggesting bandwidth problems, fakery, or whatever – Ikea app for Jan 27?
Meanwhile in related news we’re interested to note the sheer number of vehicles parked in the car park at Apple HQ in Cupertino late last night – clearly there’s a whole lot of action being finessed by the company right now this second. (See image below). Read the rest of this entry
Posted January 23rd, 2010 by Jonny
This is a tour of the Mobile Roadie powered iphone app for the Midem 2010 music industry conference which is taking place right now. Rumor has it that attendance there is down about 10-12% from last year. So we reckon there’s a fair few out there who may want to keep up with goings on at Europe’s most essential music industry event.
Posted January 23rd, 2010 by Jonny
Amazon in the UK and US appears to be offering MacBook Pro models at fairly good discounts (for a Mac).
Two examples:
UK deal: The MacBook Pro 13inch model with a 2.26GHz processor, 2GB memory and a 160GB drive usually costs £899, today it costs £837. That’s a £62 saving…
US deal: The MacBook Pro 13inch model with a 2.53GHz processor, 4GB memory and a 250GB drive usually costs $1,499, today it costs $1,429.95. That’s a $69.05 saving…
