Apple, which has been aiming for a summer rollout of a streaming music service, has hit a negotiating snag with Sony Music over some of the features that it is building into its product. More specifically, Apple and Sony Music, the world’s second-largest music label, are still trying to hammer out details over how much Apple [...]
Big News, Cool Gadgets at Mobile Technology Show
February 28, 2013 | Posted by
Stuart Miles, founder of Pocket-lint.com, has been scouring the world’s biggest mobile technology show in Barcelona for the latest gadgets and innovations. Here are the gadgets that caught his eye: A cinema experience on your phone: Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 7.1 surround demo, by DTS There was a time when a mobile phone speaker was a joke. [...]
Nokia Launches New Music Service Snubbing Spotify
January 28, 2013 | Posted by
Nokia has launched an extension to the company’s free Mix Radio service, offering unlimited downloads for less than half the price of Spotify. Music+ will cost just $3.99 per month, and will offer unlimited downloads of sets of tunes – or ‘mixes’ – for offline playback. It includes unlimited track skips, compared with the four-per-hour offer [...]
Discovery Over Snobbery: Blue Note’s New Spotify App Designed to Make Jazz More Accessible
September 14, 2012 | Posted by
Approaching jazz can seem intimidating for those who don’t know hard bop from bebop (or maybe even “Blitzkrieg Bop”). The genre’s history stretches back a century and it comprises innumerable recordings. It’s the subject of academic papers and, at the same time, it appears as samples on many rap and pop albums. With all this [...]
Quincy Jones Criticizies Diddy’s Musical Talent
June 27, 2012 | Posted by
Legendary producer and songwriter Quincy Jones was the guest of honor at the Spotify Stories Behind The Music event held Wednesday night at the Andaz Hotel in Hollywood, but he’s made some waves for his criticism of Sean “Diddy” Combsduring an interview with the night’s host Bruno Mars. When the topic of Diddy came up, [...]
