Posts Tagged ‘ music ’

Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc., maker of the iPod player and iTunes music software, is in talks to acquire online music service Lala, according to two people familiar with the matter. The terms of the deal weren’t known. The people declined to be identified because talks are still in progress. Investors in Palo...
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Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.
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We needed some music for a software product that we’re delivering to a client in a couple of weeks, so I decided to have some fun with GarageBand. Here’s the result … I call it Natural Vibes: Enjoy!
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Having an iPod Nano can be a lot more work than you bargained for. I got a fatboy Nano for Christmas. It’s great, sleek, beautiful, tiny, and the wretched bleeding thing does not hold all my music. Having never had this problem before (owning both a 20GB 4th generation and a 30GB 5th generation...
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I reconnected with last.fm after about a 2-year absence today, and last gave me a wonderful returning gift: this lovely track: Strunz & Farah – Pasitos If you like world music, or folk, or classical guitar … check it out. Very worthwhile!
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How much did you pay the music industry for the record player you bought 30 years ago? What percentage of your 15-year-old tape deck’s cost went to the music companies? And how much did the RIAA get when you bought your new Bose speakers?A big fat zero, obviously.Which is why I’m so utterly baffled...
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So, Universal wants to invent a new model for music sales: Universal Music Group, the world’s biggest record label, is looking to mobile hardware makers to foot the bill for a free music subscription service for buyers of a certain mobile phone or music player, The Telegraph reported Saturday. Think. What does a model...
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Apple’s scheduled a Steptember 5th special event: “the beat goes on.”It’s obviously about iPods. My guess is that Apple’s now ready to take the next step. More to the point, the marketplace is finally ready for Apple to release the next evolution in iPod: mobile computing.You already see it in iPhone. And we know...
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I want the new iMac. I want the new iPhoto. I want the new iMovie. I want the new GarageBand. I want the new Keynote. I want the new Numbers. I’m not really impressed with iWeb. Not too sure about .Mac yet. I don’t really have a need for Pages – Word is good....
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Yesterday, the news broke that Bebo is partnering with iTunes and offering songs via Apple’s store to its 30 million members. Today, Yahoo! Japan is partnering with iTunes and offering songs via Apple’s store to its members. Interesting. This is a new phase in iTunes, that builds on the iTunes University concept to help...
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Ringtones rank among the most annoying of modern inconveniences. Unfortunately, most people apparently need to hear that it is not actually cool to have the Star Wars theme echoing tinnily but noisily from your pocket. And the Hallelujah chorus really was not conceived as a notification that Bob is caling to inquire whether or...
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Ars Technica branches out from their standard hardware reviews and shows how Weird Al Yankovic finally got his first #1 single: White and Nerdy. In three words: YouTube MySpace iTunes Everyone hates it when their sandbox is overturned, but the music industry has to realize the game has changed and the rules are different....
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Just heard some Jadon Lavik in the car. Nice, very nice. Going to have to get both Moving on Faith and Life on the Inside. Unfortunately, only the older Moving on Faith is available on the iTunes music store in Canada … Update Nov 5: I picked up Life on the Inside at House...
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It’s rather self-explanatory, don’t you think? Here’s Aidan, my 3-year old:
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I just watched Ze Frank’s latest show on branding. After which was an ad for a music contest, which, mildly interested in, I clicked. Only to see this fairly ugly sign-up page exhorting me to take the “Workshop Live Contest” (why? who are you? what for?) with this prominently displayed: Well, stupid is as...
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