Mulligan points out that as an active musician and an industry analyst, he (and we agree with him) doesn’t believe artists should be returned to some romantic position as unpaid minstrels travelling from town-to-town in hope of earning a few cents to get by on.
Posted by Jonny on November 21st, 2008 under Apple, News
A frustrating fault within Apple’s newly-released iTunes update has been identified - the new software has a problem handling any iTunes credit some users may have to hand, a report warns.
Simply put, iTunes users who have credit in their iTunes account from a gift card or voucher need to be warned that this credit may disappear once they have installed the update.
Posted by Jonny on November 21st, 2008 under Apple, News
Fresh research warns of a historic collapse in US corporate IT spending - but notes Apple may continue to make progress in these markets, as iPhone’s corporate marketshare exceeds Palm.
Changewave’s senior researcher Paul Carton warns new research by his firm shows, “an accelerating collapse in US business spending that has reached historic proportions - with record pullbacks occurring both in the current fourth Quarter and going forward.”
Posted by Jonny on November 21st, 2008 under Apple, News
Wolfgang’s Vault is the collector’s site for multimedia music memorabilia, offering a vast selection of some of the world’s rarest - and potentially most treasured - music and music-related “stuff”. And now it’s available in the UK, through your iPhone or your iPod touch.
We were in touch with Eric Johnson, President and CEO, Wolfgang’s Vault overnight, he describes his service as, “The only online site dedicated to telling the comprehensive story of the live music experience of the past five decades.”
Bang & Olufsen has introduced its classy BeoSound 5 digital music system to the UK, promising “high-quality digital music experiences in the home”.
The new music system offers the customary high-class iconic B&O design, it’s extremely eye-catching and manufactured in aluminium. You select your songs/albums/whatever using a wheel and pointer system that’s on the side of the controller, checking your media on the large, full-colour LCD screen.
Posted by Jonny on November 21st, 2008 under Apple, News
RjDJ is getting big pop over at the App Store, it’s a fascinating application which sucks sounds in from the world around you using the iPhone’s microphone, and then mixes and tweaks those real sounds in lots of ways to create a unique, slightly tripped-out listening experience. Kind of like drinking lager on pain-killers (probably), but nowhere near as dangerous (probably).
One of a series of amusing videos of real rock stars playing their own tracks on Guitar Hero - usually with dismal results… this one features Anthrax’s Scott Ian playing “Madhouse”. Kudos to MusicAlly.
Posted by Jonny on November 21st, 2008 under Apple, News
The battle for smartphone industry continues, with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion today claiming ‘record’ downloads of new application, MySpace for BlackBerry.
In a joint announcement, MySpace and RIM claimed MySpace for BlackBerry software downloads to have exceeded 400,000 downloads in one week, “an all-time high for both MySpace and RIM in terms of first week application downloads,” the partners said.
Additionally, they reported users of the app sent and received more than 15 million messages and updated their mood and status over two million times in the first week.
Posted by Jonny on November 20th, 2008 under Apple, News
Apple last night released an update for the Apple TV, introducing new features but breaking support for the incredibly popular Boxee software - but there will be a fix within 24-hours, a member of the development team has revealed.
**UPDATE (c.12pm EDT, 21 Nov): If you’ve been waiting for the Boxee update, here’s the latest from inside the team on why no patch has been released just yet: “Nothing yet, all bugs have been fixed except for one and that is getting in front of Frontrow reliably. Apple removed the previous method in r2.3 so we have to find another way.” The Boxee team are working away at this.
Music industry analyst Mark Mulligan has sparked huge debate with a series of posts which explain why music can’t just be free.![[Post to Twitter]](http://distorted-loop.com/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/tweet-this-small.png)
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