Tag: Digital Music
Sony to close its Connect online music store
Few gadget-lovers will lament the passing of Sony Connect, an online store that was famously less user-friendly than iTunes and other rivals.
Today on Tech Digest: Babelgum IPTV, Pay-as-you-go Nokia N95, £149 iPod suit from M&S, and more…
THE BIG THREE
Babelgum IPTV service now open for business – first impressions
Virgin Mobile offers Nokia N95 on PAYG – for a price
Marks & Spencer unveils £149 iPod suit
THE NEXT FIFTEEN
LG unveils super-slim X820 PC
Father’s Day Gadget Gifts: Gaming
Motorola launches Motocast – feed-like content direct to your mobile screen
CB2: the child-robots are coming!
Samsung SPH-W2400: a rotating HSDPA mobile phone
Hate digital music DRM? Buy the t-shirts!
The Trojan virus that pretends to be a YouTube video
Brits can’t live without their broadband
Samsin SBS-6600 wireless rechargeable Bluetooth speakers
50 Cent sets up shop in virtual world Zwinktopia
Make your website work well on the Wii
Digital Cube’s female-focused M43 iStation personal media player
Alcatel launches its first music clamshell handset – the OT-C701
Turn your phone into a 70s crime scene with Kojak Detective Puzzles
IBM releasing disease prediction software
THE SILLY ONE
Colonic irrigation made easy with the self-guiding colonoscope
Review: Bob Marley's 'Exodus' album – USB memory stick version
If you’re a keen music fan, you might have picked up on the fact that it’s the 30th anniversary of the release of Bob Marley’s ‘Exodus’ album. There’s TV documentaries celebrating the fact, as well as a glossy re-release of the album itself.
Get Bob Marley's 'Exodus' album… on a USB memory stick!
We’ve had singles released on USB memory sticks before – Keane did it last October for example. But never a studio album. Until now, at least. Bob Marley’s 1977 album ‘Exodus’ is being re-released in USB Memory Stick and Micro SD Memory Card formats.
Why I don't want to Complete My Albums on iTunes
Okay, so Apple has announced its new Complete My Album feature for iTunes, which lets you buy albums that you've previously purchased individual tracks from, without having to pay for those songs again. It effectively takes 79p off the price of the full album for every track that you've already bought…
British Government says no to digital music DRM ban
Steve Jobs may want to scrap digital rights management (DRM) for digital music – or so he says – but the British government doesn't agree. Blogger Neil Holmes created a petition at the government's e-petitions website asking Tony Blair to…
NexTune launches desktop music player that cracks Apple's iTunes DRM
Everyone knows you can't play the songs you've downloaded from the iTunes Music Store in any other application, right? Well, unless you burn them to a CD and then re-rip them, of course. But US firm NexTune says its new…
CES 2007: Sonos adds Windows Media Player/Vista support
Sonos has released a one button software upgrade (System Software 2.1) for its wireless music system. The upgrade will allow Sonos customers to play Windows Media Digital Rights protected songs anywhere in the home using Windows Media Player 11 either via Windows XP or Windows Vista