Tag: free
Now The Charlatans are giving their album away as a free digital download
Cor, and indeed, crumbs. It’s a heady day for UK music fans. Not only are Radiohead letting fans set the price of downloading their new album, but now The Charlatans have announced plans to give away their new album as a free download via XFM.
Radiohead shuns iTunes in favour of 7digital
Finally, Thom Yorke’s miserable curmudgeonry has amounted to something. Well, excluding their six albums and his solo album, natch. But you must admit, he’s like a younger version of Morrissey, minus the dashing good looks.
You might be aware that after the Beatles, Radiohead are the last high-profile band to refuse to flog their tunes to Apple’s iTunes, as they apparently aren’t keen on Apple’s practise of selling individual tracks instead of full albums. Fair enough, when you consider an artist’s album…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 31-May-07: Tiscali, Firefox, Wi-Fi, iTunes
– Tiscali has admitted it will take at least 10 days to restore their customers’ email addresses to full functionality, after being blacklisted as spam by various ISPs. At least we’ve got Big Brother now to distract us…
– Web browser junkies will be jonesing for the fifth alpha release of Firefox 3 from Mozilla set for release tomorrow, sadly syringes aren’t included.
– Apparently Londoners aren’t interested in free internet and the plethora of potential Bittorrents possible, as only 6,000 people have registered to use the free City of London…
Free MMORPGs? Watch out for the strings attached…
Stuart Dredge writes…
When it comes to generating revenues from games, you can’t argue with Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) like World Of Warcraft. They have passionate userbases playing for dozens of hours a week, and happy to pay a monthly subscription to do so.
UK indie band The Crimea to give away album online
British indie band The Crimea is to give away its new album “Secrets of the Witching Hour” for free online, in an attempt to build a fan base.
Although plenty of unsigned bands give away their music in this way, The Crimea are possibly the biggest band to go down this route.
Manchester planning large free wi-fi network
It seems that the latest technology buzz to get involved with – if you're a city that is – is wi-fi or WIMAX, and preferably free. Manchester looks as if it will be the next one, with the City Council…
Race some cats on sleds at Brandish
If the day seems to be passing by slowly, you can rely on Shiny's top blokes blog Brandish to dig up an annoyingly addictive online game to make the hours fly by. In fact, they've done it again today…
