Spotify have today announced a major new upgrade to their music streaming service which further puts them into direct competition with Apple's iTunes.

From today, the mobile Spotify app will be available to all users, including Free account subscribers, allowing everyone to sync Spotify MP3 playlists to their mobile devices. Users won't be able to stream tracks, but they will be able to manage their MP3 files using Spotify, meaning they no longer need to transfer downloaded tracks through iTunes.

What's more, a new "Devices" tab in the Spotify control panel means that Spotify playlists can be transferred to Apple devices that don't make use of apps, such as iPod Classic, Nano and Shuffle models. You'll also be able to wirelessly sync downloaded MP3 tracks to iPhones, iPod Touch and Android devices; another feature missing from iTunes.

Daniel Ek, CEO & Founder of Spotify, says: "From today, Spotify really is the only music layer you'll ever need. Our users don't want to have to switch between music players, but they do want to take their playlists with them wherever they go, on a wider range of devices, more simply and at a price they can afford. Now we've made that possible on one of the world's most popular consumer devices."

Spotify have also bolstered their MP3 buying service, slashing prices to as little as 50p a track if you buy in bulk. That Cloud-based iTunes service looks more vital than ever to Apple's plans now.

Spotify have today announced a raft of major changes to their free-to-listen music streaming service that quite drastically cuts back the amount of tracks people will be able to listen to without signing up for a premium price plan.

Free users who have joined Spotify any time before November 1st 2010 will, from May 1st, have their free listening quota cut from 20 hours of music a month to 10 hours, with a 5-play limit on each individual track. Those who signed up after November 1st 2010 have exactly 6 months from the date they joined before the changes will be rolled out to their accounts too.

Users who pay for the Unlimited desktop service or Premium mobile and desktop service will not see any changes made to their boundary-free usage allowance.

If you're a free user, it's a pretty drastic cutback on what was previously available. The Spotify blog which announced the changes has already been hit with reams of messages from users saying they will now abandon the streaming service.

"This smacks of pure greed," said one user going by the name of goodbye_spotify.

"I don't think you could have found a better way to alienate your users even if you had deliberately set out to do so. There's no way I could ever consider upgrading to a premium account now. I'll just stick with my open account until I run out of free plays or further restrictions like these make it completely unusable. Thanks. It was fun while it lasted."

It's an attitude shared by many, but frankly they're missing the point. Spotify has opened the gates for a completely different way of consuming music, not seen since the boom in illegal mp3 downloads and sharing. Spotify of course has the benefit of being completely legal, and with the growing support of record labels who are finally beginning to wake up to the idea that the old business model that they distributed music through is increasingly redundant, Spotify stands on the cusp of a revolution.

For starters, they're increasingly making the desire to pirate albums unnecessary, as the catalogue becomes increasingly comprehensive and the user interface of the software so simple and appealing. With physical record sales declining and increasingly less convenient in the age of the iPod and smartphone, the only major alternatives are iTunes and a return to rampant piracy. iTunes track downloads at roughly 79p a go, when compared to the £9.99 a month cost for unlimited access to over 6 million songs with Spotify, now appears incredibly poor value for money. Piracy, which should never be condoned regardless as it damages the livelihoods of the artists we love, runs with it not only the annoyances of poorly ripped tracks, viruses and fakes, but of course the looming threat of prosecution.

If anything, now is perhaps the best time EVER to sign up for a Premium Spotify account. A recent overhaul of the mobile apps makes editing playlists on the go far more easy, the social/sharing aspects are growing from strength to strength and an increasing number of devices, including Sonos multi-room speaker systems and Onkyo home cinema kits, are adding the music streaming app to their list of built-in features.

Spotify, in reality, has never been a completely free service. Free users have always had to put up with plenty of adverts between tracks, and that, even in the days of unlimited access, was enough to wind some people up. But what do we honestly expect; that a service this good can survive unfunded? It's high time we started paying for Spotify and supporting innovation, especially if we want to see our favourite musical artists begin to make a decent living again in this age of falling record sales.

The Spotify Premium service, allowing you to sync playlists to mobile devices and access an incomprehensibly long list of songs, costs the same as buying just one CD a month. Signing up to the Premium service right now also comes with a 7-day free trial period, while throughout May the Spotify team are planning a generous 30-day free Premium service trial too. If £9.99 a month sounds too much, opt for the £4.99 desktop-only option; half the functionality, half the price.

Call me naive, but that sounds like incredibly good value for money to me. It's time to shake off this cheapskate culture when it comes to digital music consumption and dust off our wallets.

Sony's Music Unlimited song streaming service has been confirmed to be heading to a raft of new devices, currently only available via Sony TVs and PS3 consoles.

Shipping alongside the hotly-anticipated Sony NGP games console, the cloud-based tune catalogue will also be available to owners of PSP consoles, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and other Android phones "in a matter of weeks", according to Sony Network Entertainment VP Shawn Layden.

"The heart of the offering here is that with the one account you can access this music on your TV, your PS3, your laptop, your Blu-ray player, and have your music follow you wherever you go, rather than having to download all of your music into a device and make that device go with you everywhere," Shawn Layden, executive vice president and CEO of Sony Network Entertainment, told Eurogamer.

"You can see that in the gaming world, because you can pull down PSP games across a PS3 and associate that with your portable player. You can create your account in your country home on your PS3 and access the same content you purchase on your other PS3 home. Associated sharing is already happening."

The service offers a massive 6 million tunes, with subscription costs starting at £3.99 a month and going up to £9.99.

Amazon have beat Apple to the digital-streaming punch by announcing the launch of three new cloud-based services in the shape of the Amazon Cloud Drive, the Cloud Player for the web and the Cloud Player for Android phones.

The Amazon Cloud Drive acts as a digital locker for your files, storing music in MP3 and AAC formats, photos, videos and documents in the cloud. 5GB of storage is offered for free, jumping to 20GB if you purchase a single track from Amazon's music store. Furthe storage options begin from $20 a year, with Amazon-bought tracks not using up any storage space at all on the Cloud Drive.

The two players, for Androidp phones, PCs and Macs, will let you stream any of the music you've stored on the Cloud Drive. Tracks will play at the bitrate you uploaded them in, with the palyers themselves offering controls to upload and download tracks, as well as managing playlists. The Android version also comes with the Amazon MP3 app, allowing you to purchase new tracks from Amazon's digital music store.

"We're excited to take this leap forward in the digital experience," said Bill Carr, vice president of Movies and Music at Amazon. "The launch of Cloud Drive, Cloud Player for Web and Cloud Player for Android eliminates the need for constant software updates as well as the use of thumb drives and cables to move and manage music."

"Our customers have told us they don't want to download music to their work computers or phones because they find it hard to move music around to different devices.

"Now, whether at work, home, or on the go, customers can buy music from Amazon MP3, store it in the cloud and play it anywhere."

Though it's currently only a US-specific service, we're expecting to hear news on a worldwide launch soon. American readers can give the service a try by clicking here.

Legendary rapper Snoop Dogg has made MySpace his platform of choice with which to launch his new album, Doggumentary. You can listen to the album in full (with expletives cut) by clicking here.

It's an unusual choice for the Dogg Father however. Where once MySpace was a leading light in bringing new music to the masses, the social networking site's fortunes have slipped dramatically following the rise of Facebook.

To highlight this trend, ComScore are reporting that MySpace lost as many as 10 million users at the beginning of 2011, dropping from 73 million users to 63 million in the four weeks between January and February.

Despite attempts to re-position the site as an entertainment hub, there seems to be no end in sight for MySpace's woes. 500 job cuts are expected to be made in the coming weeks, with the entire UK arm of the brand being closed for good.

Via: Mashable

Rumours are heating up concerning Google's long-awaited Google Music service. The cloud-streaming app has finally entered the testing stages, according to industry insiders.

Following an apparent leak at the XDA Developers forum last week, Google are believed to be in the final software testing phases of their iTunes rival, which is expected not only to offer digital downloads and track streaming, but also cloud storage for your entire library of digital tunes, putting all of your stored music into the cloud, ready to be accessed at any time.

If the whispers are true it'll be a massive boon for the record labels, who have seen the digital music scene stagnate since Apple's monopolisation of the area. Google, being as huge a company as they are, not only have the revenue and developing expertise to become a genuine competitor, but also the combination of software and hardware in Android phones to fight against the iPhone and iPod tag team.

However, that cloud storage model is proving a stumbling block. No other service has given users such a feature, and so it's uncharted territory for the record labels, who a are wary to sign over their catalogue to an unproven model.

Via: Gizmodo / CNet

The now-annual AKG Scholarship of Sound is once again opening its doors to those looking to get a head-start in digital music production.

Funded by audio hardware specialists AKG, the initiative offers 10 lucky applicants from across Europe the chance to work closely with experts in electronic music, offering their extensive knowledge across a series of Q&A sessions, workshops and mentoring tutorials, not to mention a trip to the AKG Studio in Berlin.

The experts for this year have just been announced, and are listed in the release as:

Carl Craig - DJ, producer, electronic music icon, creative visionary and Detroit legend

Schneiders Büro - the most renowned store internationally for synthesizers

Want to get involved? Taking place from 30th July to 6th August, applicants can apply to take part by clicking here. All entries must be submitted by a final deadline of April 30th.

If you're looking to listen to music on the go, but can't afford a monthly subscription to Spotify, costly iTunes downloads or data-intensive radio streaming stations, then you should give we7RADIO for Android handsets a try.

A free, ad-funded radio app, we7RADIO allows you to store personalised radio stations on your mobile, downloading them via your home Wi-Fi connection and then taking them on the go for offline playback. Pick a few favourite artists and genres, and you'll have personalised music to suit your tastes when on the go.

You don't eat up data and, thanks to te ad-funded model, you don't have to pay a subscription fee.

Alternatively, a £9.99 a month subscription removes the adverts in the app, and allows whole albums and hand-picked playlists to be stored on your phone from We7's 7 million-track library.

Availalble from the Android Marketplace now, the we7RADIO app will also be followed in April with versions for iPhone, iPad and iTouch. BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 versions will follow later in the year. Check out some shots of the app in action below.

Alongside the iPad 2 launch last night, Apple also revealed a handful of new apps ready to be downloaded alongside the new slate. We've written an in-depth guide to the new Garageband app, which you can read by clicking here.

Garageband for iPad has the potential to totally democratise music making. Not only will you not need an expensive PC rig to write hit tracks, as all the hardware and software you'd need can potentially be housed in the $499 tablet, but you need not have any real musical skill either. Smart Instruments, easily allowing novices to lay down pleasing chord progressions with a number of instruments, will allow any iPad 2 owner to become musically creative. Forget bedroom recording, the iPad 2's mobility will create a whole new wave of street producers.

That's not to say Garageband is purely for beginners. Here Tech Digest list 10 successful bands and artists who use the program on Macs, and will undoubtedly make the jump to the iPad 2 when on the road too.

Apple launched the iPad 2 last night and with it the news that the Mac computer's legendary music creation tool Garageband will be available as an app too at launch.

Totally touch controlled, here's what you need to know about the democratising tune-building software.

What is Garageband?

Initially available to Mac users and now hitting the iPad 2, it's a combination of software insturments and multi-track recording tools. Using touch controls, you'll be able to record, edit and share your Garageband creations using Apple's new tablet.

What touch instruments are included?

Guitars, drums, drum machines, pianos and synthesizers are all included, with multiple drum kit pieces, piano and synth styles and guitar amps included to tweak sounds to emulate your favourite artists. There's even a theromin-style effect called the Sci-Fi sound, for those who want to make a tune similar to the Beach Boy's classic "Good Vibrations".

Do I have to be able to play an instrument to write songs with Garageband?
While the iPad 2's built in mic means you could record live instruments and import them to the software, even a musical dunce can write tunes using Apple's Smart Instruments. Here, chords are acivated with a simple swipe of a finger, with only chords that sound nice together accessible. 250 loops are also installed, if you prefer to work with pre-recorded beats and melodies. Even the tone-death will be able to convince everyone they're a mini-Mozart.

How about pressure-sensitve controls? Will it know how loud I want to hit my drums or strum the guitar?

You betcha!

How does it know how hard I'm pressing the keys or strumming the guitar?

Because of the built-in accelerometer and gyroscope present in the iPad 2. Just as you have pedometer apps that measure walking distance or games controlled by tilts and turns alone, the iPad 2 can measure minute differences in the position of the tablet as you hit it at varying strengths, translating it into the attack on the instrument. In other words, lightly tap the software snare drum and you'll get a little rap, but whack it and you'll sound like Nirvana's Dave Grohl hammering away.

How about guitar pedals?

Ten different stomp box effects including overdrive and chorus can be added to guitar sounds, which can be re-ordered across a virtual pedal board for building an even more unique sound.

How many tracks can I lay down at once?

Garageband is an 8-track recorder, so that's any combination of 8 melodies, drum sounds, loops, vocals or anyother sounds you can think of. You're able to edit, trim, cut, paste and copy tracks too, just by using touch controls.

I'm not interested in music, but I do make podcasts. Could I use Garageband for this?

No reason why not. You're able to record voices using the iPad 2's built in mic, and add sound effects along 8 separate tracks. It may be basic, and wouldn't have the same interactive elements of advanced podcast software, but it'd be a perfect mobile solution for voice-only broadcasts.

Can I share my recordings?

Yep; you'll be able to export in ACC format and send the tracks via email.

What about if I want to edit my creations with a Mac?

You can do that too. All songs made with Garageband for iPad will be compatible with Mac Garageband software if you prefer the mouse and keyboard controls, or already have lots of dedicated recording tools in a home studio indoors.

How much will it cost?

Garageband will cost $4.99 at launch, or around £2.99, ready from day one of the iPad 2 launch. That may sound expensive for an app, but when you consider that amount of functionality from a dedicated hardware 8 track recorder plus music recording software would cost you a few weeks wages, that's pocket money.

Name: colourSTREAM (ROBERTS)

Type: DAB/Internet Radio with iPod Dock

Specs: Click here for full specs

Price: £176.09 from Amazon

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Billed as a next-gen radio system, the ROBERTS colourSTREAM has a list of features as long as your arm. Everything from DAB to internet radio stations are included, while a touchscreen and iPod dock make it very much a device for Generation App. There's a lot to love here, but a few niggling issues prevent the colourSTREAM from achieving five-star status.

While quite large at 340(w) x 130(h) x 260(d) mm and 3.4 kg in weight, the colourSTREAM's gloss-black finish and curved edges will make it slip in comfortably in most homes. This attractive look is only improved upon turning the radio on, when the front-mounted, bright and colourful resistive touchscreen fires up with a blue ring and strip of lights surround the central volume and power dial.

As mentioned before, the colourSTREAM can pipe in music from an excellently varied number of sources. These include DAB, FM, internet radio, iPod, a networked PC, a music-filled USB drive, AUX source or via Last.fm (to which a 30-day premium subscription is included within the colourSTREAM's asking price). Many of these obviously require a network connection, and the colourSTREAM makes the set-up process very painless. A set-up wizard launches upon first switching on the radio; you can either set a wired LAN as your connection of choice, or a Wi-Fi one. Using the touchscreen text entry keypad made finding our network very easy, as well as entering our WEP key, and we were good to go within 5 or 10 minutes.

Once the wizard is complete, the colourSTREAM launches its home screen, which, with it's icon-based interface, will be look eerily familiar to iPhone users. From here you're able to select your source, with each given a separate brightly coloured tile.

As we mentioned earlier, setting up the internet connection was incredibly easy, and we never once experienced a signal drop-out from whichever networked source we accessed, despite a notoriously flakey Wi-Fi connection being used. The colourSTREAM UI however, left a little to be desired. While it's sensibly laid out, allowing you to intuitively browse tens of thousands of internet web stations and search for them by text-entry, the small number of channels displayed on screen at once meant for painfully long lists to scroll through. This was particularly noticeable when browsing our relatively large PC-based mp3 collection; if we weren't using the text entry screen to pinpoint a specific track, it was a real chore to navigate.

This problem is exacerbated by the sluggish speed of the system; you'll often wait a few seconds for the screen to refresh your browsing scroll, which can result in you pushing the down-scroll touch button too many times by mistake, believing your tap of the resistive touchscreen to have gone unrecognised, and making you over-shoot the track you're looking for. Also, giving support for iPods, but not iPhones, seems quite the oversight.

Despite these problems, the colourSTREAM still manages to impress in the audio department. A full-bodied warm sound blasts out of the 2 x 15 watts speakers at a reasonably loud level, making even the comparatively low bitrate internet radio streams and podcasts sound great. There's also the option to tweak custom equaliser settings, or pick from a lengthy list of presets to suit all ears. The included remote control is nice and sturdy too, with dedicated "Love" and "Ban" buttons for those who make plenty of use of the Last.fm functionality, though all the buttons are a little stiff to push.

It's got its problems which hold it back from true greatness, but we do have a soft spot for the ROBERTS colourSTREAM. It's the easiest internet radio to set-up we've ever used, and while the UI is sluggish and a little cramped in places, it's so self-explanatory that even a technophobe could navigate it, providing they have the patience. Not a bad first attempt by ROBERTS by any means, and we look forward to seeing them explore touchscreen interfaces in future releases.

4/5

Nokia's Comes With Music service is to draw to a close, acording to leak documents found by Esphoneblog. Comes With Music offered unlimted downloads from Nokia's Ovi Music store, providing the user agreed to lock the tracks to a single handset and PC.

However, despite reasonable success in Asian territories, the service never took off in the West, and as of January 16th users will not be able to renew their subscriptions.

The reasoning for Comes With Music's failure seems three-fold. Firstly, the initial high asking price for Nokia phones that came with the service was extremely high. DRM controls also meant usage of files was limited, while the service itself was often flaky and difficult to use.

As a Comes With Music user myself, I have to admit to having been incredibly frustrated with the service. Getting tracks to sync with my X6 handset was an absolute nightmare after a series of dodgy firmware updates. I wont miss it.

Shazam, the music discovery app that identifies tracks, has today announced that it will be integrating Spotify connectivity into its service, allowing users to instantly access recognized songs for streaming.

"Integrating Spotify into Shazam's applications combines music discovery with one of the world's most popular music streaming services, providing a seamless experience for music fans at the point of inspiration in any location," says Andrew Fisher, CEO of Shazam. "Spotify is delivering an innovative, high quality experience to music lovers and we're excited to bring the Spotify service to Shazam."

A new "Play in Spotify" feature will be added to both the free and premium Shazam iPhone, iPod and Android apps, accessible so long as the user also has a premium Spotify account on their mobiles.

"Shazam is a very innovative company in the mobile space, having achieved a massive following around the world and we're excited about the potential of this partnership for new music discovery through Spotify," says Daniel Ek, CEO, Spotify. "Now if you hear a great new track you can identify it, listen to it instantly in its entirety and easily add it to your music collection. That's pretty powerful stuff."

Sony are to launch their own cloud-based music service called Qriocity Music Unlimited. Tying one account across multiple Sony Bravia TVs, Blu-ray players, PS3 games consoles, Vaio PCs and more, 6 million songs will be accessible at launch.

Songs from major record labels including Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Music and a handful of leading indie labels will put the service in direct competition with Spotify.

"As we continue to expand Qriocity globally, these services 'powered by Qriocity' offer a single ID log-in and wallet solution, and empower users to easily consume content including music and video across a growing number of integrated devices," said Kazuo Hirai, president of Networked Products & Services Group, Sony Corporation.

"Seamless accessibility to content through these fresh user experiences will enrich Sony's network service offerings and continually add value to the unique aspects of Sony's network-enabled products."

Basic subscription for Qriocity Music Unlimited costs £3.99 a month, with the Premium package costing £9.99. Seems Spotify still has a few aces up its sleeve in the shape of the ad-funded model and mobile options then.

The music industry has long been trying to get Google to step up and help tackle online copyright infringement, and today the company has announced a a series of steps designed to combat the problem.

The steps include a promise to "act on reliable copyright takedown requests within 24 hours" and faster take down for"copyright owners who use the tools responsibly". Google will also make available tools that will make it easier for rightsholders to submit DMCA takedown requests. These services will start with their blogging service Blogger and web search products. Interestingly Google will also improve its counter-notice tools for those who have content wrongly removed from their blogs, and try to make the whole process more transparent by allowing "public searching of takedown requests".

They will also prevent "terms that are closely associated with piracy from appearing in Autocomplete". In other words if you were searching for "The National", Google will no longer suggest users may wish to search "The National Torrent". This does not mean that Google will stop indexing torrent sites, it just means it won't auto complete entries which may make them a bit harder to find. In addition they plan to improve their AdSense anti-piracy review tools, to ban websites involved in copyright infringement from its AdSense ad network. This will prevent AdSense ads funding pirate sites.

Finally the biggest change, Google will begin experimenting with ways to make legal content and services "easier to index and find" than illegal sites.

Google has long been under fire for allowing copyright infringement to take place on it sites - in particular YouTube and Blogger - so these new steps will be very welcome by the music industry.

Spotify have revealed their financial accounts for 2009, and it makes for a very interesting read indeed.

Spotify Limited, the UK based arm of the music streaming service which also acts as the company's main sales body, revealed 2009 revenues of £11.32 million, with cost of sales at £18.82 million, distribution costs of £608,711 and administrative expenses of £8.29 million.

It adds up to an operating loss of £16.4 million, and a net loss after taxation of £16.66 million.

Spotify spoke to Musically on what the figures represent: "2009 saw us focus on establishing a new and innovative music service and bringing it to millions of people across Europe. The groundwork laid in our launch year has been crucial to the significant achievements made in 2010. Further strengthening and expansion of the service remains our top priority."

Any start-up faces a difficult launch year, and for the many millions of Spotify fans, further figures do offer some hope that the service will proove sustainable before long. In particular, user numbers are very impressive indeed.

Spotify started 2009 with around 1,000,000 users, but by the years end were reporting a sevenfold increase in users, up to 7 million. Of these, 250,000 were paying subscribers, a conversion rate of 3.57%. These paid-for members made £6.81 million for the company, while the ad-funded model made £4.51 million.

As of October this year Spotify claimed to have 10 million users. While the number of sign-ups to the had service slowed, the percentage of conversions to paid-for members against freebie users increased, with some 500,000 users now paying to stream music add-free and on the go.

Using the figures as a rough estimate, without taking into account inflation and the fluid nature of a growing userbase, and also assuming a continued two or three-fold growth until the end of the year, Spotify could have as many as 15 million users by the end of 2010, with as many as 750,000 to 1 million paid users. That would give £14,592,857 from the ad model, with £18,040,400 from subscriptions for a grand total of £32,632,857. Which looks far more healthy.

And Spotify being the great service that it is, who's really going to turn their back on it once they've trawled the humungous catalogue for playlists and albums? It's the sort of app that, once you tried it, you can never imagine how you lived without it. As far as my music-obsessed circle of pals are anything to go by, Spotify and cloud streaming is the future of music consumption, and a service that they'll loyally use and pay for.

Of course, it's hard to gauge these things, especially with an imminent launch of a US service. It'll bring in a fair few quid more if a success, but further costs to rightsholders (of which they've already paid £40 million) will dent this. And then of course there is the looming shadow of the long-rumoured iTunes cloud streaming service which could lure users away back into Apple's walled garden.

Still, don't let the headlines fool you, it's not nessecarily all doom and gloom in camp Spotify.

Beatles tracks are now littered all over the iTunes Top 200 charts after becoming available through the digital download service for the first time yesterday.

Though some were disappointed that The Beatles announcement didn't come as a side dish to a larger iTunes update, sales figures so far show the Mearseybeat quartet are as popular as ever.

As Tech Digest's own Ashley Norris tweeted "I think [the] cynicism is more about iTunes than The Beatles, saying you don't like Beatles is like saying you don't like breathing".

38 songs are in the top 200, with the highest entry being Hey Jude at number 33.

Sure, they're not going straight in at Number One, but it's not bad going for songs 40 years old and already owned by half the world two or three times over!

Push the Fab Four up the charts a little more by clicking here to see what's for sale.

"We can work it out" must have been the resounding theme from the last round of talks between Apple, Paul, Yoko and Ringo( and of course label EMI) as The Beatles' entire back catalouge of music is now finally available on the iTunes store.

All studio albums and collections are available as part of the exclusive deal, as well as a £125 box set and some live gig footage. Each album also comes packed with iTunes LP liner goodies, including lyrics, photos and more.

Apple took the long and winding road to get this deal inked, but you just know folks all over the world are scrambling for their card details right this minute.

Does this mean the Fab Four might eventually make it to streaming services like Spotify too?

Check out The Beatles page on iTunes by clicking here.

Here's the offical line from Apple:

The Beatles Now on iTunes

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

It seems Apple is finally nearing the end of their pursuit to include the Beatles catalog on iTunes.
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that Apple is preparing to announce that the iTunes store will soon be carrying music by the Beatles, filling a massive gap in their collection.

We can't help wonder, once its available on iTunes if this will help open the door for other music sites like Spotify to gain access to the Beatles catalog.

On another note we really hope this isn't Apple's big announcement tomorrow.... We feel a bit cheated.

Yesterday we had a chance to sit down with Jawbone CEO Hosain Rahman, to talk about their latest product the Jambox.

While the Jambox is being labeled as the world's first intelligent wireless speaker, one thing is for sure this little device packs big sound. Get a first glimpse of the Jambox in action before its launched in the UK later this month below.