Steve Jobs may have a little early birthday present this week (it’s his big day tomorrow), with a local Woodside couple agreeing to take possession of the mansion house Jobs has been attempting to replace for years now.
The long-running saga of the Jackling residence dates back eight years. Jobs has declared his hatred for the place (he calls it an “abomination”, and has wanted to demolish it to create a place more to his taste.
However. the Spanish Colonial Revival-style mansion, vacant since 2000, has won support from local preservationists.
This is interesting – Rob Wells, Senior Vice-President of Digital at the world’s largest major label, Universal Music Group International, tells us what’s what in the future of music.
This is a wide-ranging chat, covering the past, present and several different outcomes for the future of music, including building new commercial models that integrate social and search sites, and of course a little mobile (Apple). Interesting stuff for anyone who cares about the future of media and music. (Video after the break). Read the rest of this entry »
All’s not completely well in Apple’s iPhone factories, where new reports claim workers are being poisoned by a sub-contractor. And the place is up in flames in Mexico.
The official Muse app featuring music, video & artwork from ‘The Resistance’ album is available now.
The software offers interchangeable app skins, access to an archive of interesting Muse music videos, an interactive Muse map and a camera equipped with social features so fans can share live events. There’s also a forum, RSS feeds and a tour calendar.
Features to push the Resistance album included within the app include:
‘The Resistance’ interactive AppBook
‘Resistance’ full music video
‘United States of Eurasia’ full audio track
30 second clips of all tracks from ‘The Resistance’
These’s also an interactive media map which can get you to other fans, upcoming and older gigs, official images and much more.
Abbey Road Live will be recording The Pixies on their entire New Zealand and Australian “Doolittle Live” tour, offering high quality CD sets to fans immediately after each show – and an iPhone app should appear on the App Store imminently. Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s one we can’t quite assess – but it seems pretty clear Amazon’s realised it doesn’t make operating systems but needs some form of OS-based strategy for future generations of Kindle, and Microsoft must want to offer its own iBookstore too – so expect Kindle in Windows Mobile 7 devices, we’d assume….
Anyway, news is that Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has signed a patent cross-license agreement with Amazon.com Inc.
See him up there? That’s the young (27-year old) Steve Jobs, posing on his bike for a few shots to illustrate freelance writer, Moira Johnston’s feature “High Tech, High Risk, and High Life in Silicon Valley”, published way back in October 82.
Apple’s iTunes service is a dominant player in the music space, generating millions of dollars for labels and artists with sales fast reaching 10 billion songs – but it’s a different deal for movies and TV shows through the service.
Celebrating the nearing achievement of 10 billion songs, Apple recently launched a competition, offering one lucky iTunes customer who manages to download the ten billionth track a $10,000 iTunes gift card.
We’re really close to a winner there now, as of Monday morning, the tally had surpassed 9.8 billion, from 9.5 billion on Friday. (Right now it’s in excess of 9,981,000,000 sales, climbing fast.)
Censorship, some say, is a blunt weapon with a thin end – you start exercising censorship against something most people agree shouldn’t be seen/discussed, you end up censoring conversations about the weather.
So, great news this weekend that Apple’s decided to become the world’s biggest censor as it once again proves that, when it comes to the App Store disapprovals team, it has decided to hire people with some kind of narrow-minded unimaginative version of received morality. And has booted 5,000 Apps from the App Store for the crime of being ever so slightly naughty.
Mick Hucknall and chums today shipped the all-new ‘Songs Of Love’ album and revealed plans for a farewell Simply Red world tour – and there’s a Mac in the mix.
Hucknall founded the band in 1984. Now new album release ‘Songs of Love’ has been confirmed as scheduled to ship on February 28 2010, coinciding with an announcement about the band’s tour plans for later this year.
In order to achieve the tour, the band has reprogrammed the entire Simply Red back catalogue into Logic Pro in order to use Apple’s MainStage application during the show.
Steve Jobs may have a little early birthday present this week (it’s his big day tomorrow), with a local Woodside couple agreeing to take possession of the mansion house Jobs has been attempting to replace for years now.
