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Google’s playable Les Paul Google Logo is amazing
Above is the most ingenious and clever logos to ever appear on the Google homepage. This past Thursday, Google’s logo transformed into a series of guitar strings in honor of the 96th birthday of Les Paul, the famed American guitar player and inventor of the solid body electric guitar. It’s no stretch at all to say […]
Continue reading...Apple’s “iTunes in the Cloud” won’t arrive in the UK until 2012
Thursday, June 9, 2011
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Apple’s recently announced iCloud music service will let users “store” copies of their purchased music in the cloud and access it from any iOS device or Mac, DRM free. As for music that wasn’t purchased via iTunes, Apple will provide users cloud access to those songs for $24.99 a year. There’s no doubt that Apple’s […]
Continue reading...Apple paid record labels up to $50 million each for iCloud streaming
Friday, June 3, 2011
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News keeps trickling in about Apple’s upcoming iCloud music service, with the latest report coming via the New York Post which relays that Apple paid the four music labels upwards of $150 million in order to get them on board with its planned streaming service. Earlier this week, Apple finally got Universal to sign on […]
Continue reading...Apple to shore up licensing deals with all 4 major record labels ahead of iCloud announcement
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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Apple earlier today issued a press release announcing that CEO Steve Jobs will deliver this year’s WWDC keynote where he will not only unveil OS X Lion and iOS 5, but will also showcase Apple’s upcoming cloud-based initiative dubbed iCloud. There have been a bevy of rumors as of late circling around Apple’s efforts to […]
Continue reading...Apple inching closer to inking licensing deals for clould-based music
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
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By Luis Estrada: Apple is inching closer and closer to securing a licensing deal with the four major record labels that would enable Apple to announce its rumored cloud music service in two weeks when WWDC kicks off on June 6. The latest is that Apple has already secured deals with EMI Music, Warner Music, […]
Continue reading...Amazon overwhelmed by immense demand after touting $0.99 Lady Gaga album
Monday, May 23, 2011
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Earlier today we reported that Amazon was selling Lady Gaga’s latest CD Born This Way for only $0.99. Again, it’s an incredible deal even if you have a slightly more than passing interest in her music. Alas, the Gaga fans have risen from the dead and have flooded Amazon’s servers in the process. Due to […]
Continue reading...Take that iTunes! Amazon offers new Lagy Gaga album for only $0.99
Monday, May 23, 2011
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When it comes to a wide variety of media content, there are really only two major options out there – Amazon and Apple’s iTunes store. It’s for this reason that of all the tablet competitors that can really pose a legitimate challenge to Apple, Amazon’s rumored tablet initiative probably stands as the biggest threat in […]
Continue reading...Apple patent looks to improve streaming with locally stored content to prevent buffering
Thursday, May 19, 2011
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AppleInsider directs us to a new Apple patent filing that entails a new method for eliminating the inherent buffering delays associated with streaming music and video online. Apple’s solution relies on using small portions of a file being locally stored on a user’s mobile device which can start playing immediately upon selection. This is particularly […]
Continue reading...Apple looking to develop “media streaming engine” for iOS, OS X, and Windows
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
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Apple yesterday posted a new job posting on its website looking for a Media Streaming Engineering Manager, prompting some to speculate that Apple is working feverishly to get its supposed cloud-based media streaming initiative off the ground as soon as possible. “We are looking for an excellent engineering manager to join our team and help […]
Continue reading...Guitar Center and Apple join forces to teach users how to use GarageBand on a Mac
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
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While competitors like to compete with Apple on price, Apple prides itself on offering an unparalleled user experience. Part of that offering includes Apple’s iLife suit of software. One of the more recent additions to that software set is GarageBand, which was first introduced by Steve Jobs in 2004. GarageBand is certainly a powerful application, […]
Continue reading...Apple beats Google in race to deploy could-based music service – Report
Thursday, April 21, 2011
There have been a number of reports over the past few months suggesting that Apple is planning on completely revamping its MobileMe service to include a digital locker that would enable users to store, and potentially stream, purchased content from iTunes from the cloud – namely, Apple’s large Data Center in North Carolina. Apple, of […]
Continue reading...Google’s negotiations with record labels over streaming service are “broken”
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
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A little less than a month ago we reported that Google had already begun internal testing on its rumored music service which, by all accounts, will serve as a competitor to iTunes. Google’s purported plan with music involves the ability for users to store their music in the cloud and stream it down to their […]
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Friday, June 10, 2011
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