JUST IN: Google, MySpace, Facebook Make Music

Oct 22, 2009 | 0 |

Yesterday, Google, MySpace and Facebook all launched or announced new plans for adding Music services to their venues. They will all retail through other sites but offer widgets or interfaces to peruse,stream, and purchase music through various means. In early August 2008 , Google launched it’s Music Service OneBox in a market where Music services such as iTunes , Rhapsodyand the like were unheard of . The service directs users to Top100.cn, a site that names as an investor basketball star Yao Ming, to download or stream music for free.Users outside of China were blocked from downloading from OneBox. Now, forwarding the  effort  for Google and the recording companies to promote alternatives to Apple Inc.’s iTunes, the leader in song downloads, next week (now confirmed Wednesday, October 28) Google Inc. will launch music search pages that will package images of musicians and bands, album artwork, links to news, lyrics, videos and song previews, and allow purchasing of songs on one search results page. Google will not be the music retailer itself, but will offer enhanced music search with a streaming function — first of possibly several vertical search offerings. Searching for an artist or song will apparently bring up a box (assumed title: “One Box”) with a streaming link randomly assigned to stream songs from either Lala or iLike, the latter of which was acquired by MySpace in August.The...

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PS3 Reigns Supreme!

Oct 21, 2009 | 0 |

The PlayStation 3, which is now $299, took the sales crown for September, beating out both the Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360.

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JUST-IN: OMG! 3 New Macs Out Today!

Oct 20, 2009 | 1 |

Today, less than 24 hours after  they announced the most stellar 4th Quarter  earnings report, Apple  revealed an new iMac line.-two beauteous machines,  with  luminous LED-backlit  widescreens displays, one 21.5 inches and 27 inches.  They each sport  a new edge-to-edge glass design in a seamless all aluminum enclosure. Starting at $1,199, the new iMacs are the fastest Apples yet starting with  with Intel Core 2 Duo processors ( price-range  $1199.00 to $1699.00)at 3.06 GHz, and Core i5 and i7 quad-core processors for up to twice the performance for $19999.00.  The 26″ has true 1920 X1080 HD resolution but the the 27″ goes beyond HD with  2560-by-1440 resolution. Every new iMac ships with a wireless keyboard and the all new wireless Magic Mouse, the world’s first mouse with Multi-Touch technology. The sleek looking magic Mouse has no scroll ball, wheel, cord or any visible buttons. The entire mouse is a button. It works with what are termed gestures. For more: apple.com/imac Also announced today, a new  MacBook with a polycarbonate unibody design which also features a brilliant LED-backlit display. the MacBook has  a glass Multi-Touch trackpad and its built-in battery offers up to seven hours of battery life.  Technology and design features from the MacBook Pro line, are incorporated into this little gem which is available, get this,  for  $999. For more: apple.com/macbook As a bonus, a faster , more...

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FTC Sticks to Its Regulations as Blogger Backlash Builds

Oct 20, 2009 | 0 |

Today, the Federal Trade Commission responded to an “open letter” from online advertisers that asked for the commission’s newly updated guidelines to be scrapped because they purportedly “muzzle social media” and, thus, inhibit the freeflow of ideas.

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FOLLOW UP : 3 Great New Apps for iPhone…: RockBand

Oct 19, 2009 | 0 |

As a follow up to our previous blog post Three Great New Apps for iPhone This Month!To really get you wishing it were here already-the New ad /teaser for the new Rockband App and some awesome screenshots, too posted on the EA Mobile...

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