MusicGiants Inc. has launched a new music download service today, reports Reuters, hoping their Windows Media Audio “lossless” format will appeal above the crowd. Are they kidding? It’s reached licensing deals with all the major music labels including EMI Group, Sony/BMG, Vivendi Universal and Warner Music Group. Supposedly lossless files have up to 7 times the sound quality of music files on other commercial music services. As if anyone cares…
Music, not Gaming could become more successful than mobile gaming, according to a study released Tuesday by market research firm In-Stat.
The iPod nano is fast becoming Apple#039s next Cube – as, it#039s flawed hardware. SiliconValley.com reports that, like the small desktop PC Apple launched in the late 1990s, the Nano is being criticised for its alleged cosmetic defects, including problems with the screen.
I’ll be blogging for MocoNews.net (news about mobile content btw) this week at Mobile Content World in London this week. Come say hi, if you’re around. I’ll be in the press office.
I appear to have encouraged Foundcity.net to launch in the UK. Yay! See here for the first ever post.
(I’ll write this up just as soon as I’ve recovered from standing up for 12 hours with no food and little water. Meantime, bloody AOL are hocking the one downloadable track from the concert on Windows machines only! Forcing others to go to bit torrent etc).
I went to the O2 Wireless Festival tonight in Hyde Park (see Flickr images, left). I’ll be brief. Babyshambles were OK. You can see the appeal. Endearingly shambolic. Kasabian were in a league of their own however. Truly, the Happy Mondays for the noughties, but with a little more edge, and seriousness. They will go far. Killer basslines and hooks. I love a bass player who just stands there and
I went to Internet world in Earls Court today. Put it this way. There were lots of servers and lots of vendors of content management software. (Someone should tell them about Open Source and blogging). But the real buzz was around the New Media Marketing Seminar Tent. Everyone seems to have realised they have no idea what to do, now they actually have the servers and the web site and
Nokia continues to want to take over the world. I am in Helsinki at one of their press conferences where no-one really answers questions. “What do you plan to do about Happy Slapping? Parental controls on the handsets?” I ask. The answer comes back that it’s “down to parents to exercise control”. Sure, but what happens when all those Nokia handsets get confiscated by schools, huh guys? For more from
Here’s the confession. Actually if if it was a hoax, it has certainly turned the world on to the possibilities of Bluejacking, and bluetooth communication, which, who knows, may lead elsewhere… For now we can savour a great hoax – pulled on the entire planet it seems.