Tag: free
MTV to put every South Park episode online for free
The working day’s about to get quite a bit more bearable, thanks to glorious youth-pleaser MTV doing a MEGABUCKS deal to stick every episode of South Park up on the internet for us all to watch.
And the price to you, brave internet user? Nothing. They’re doing it for free, no doubt in some convoluted readership-expanding, demographic-driving…
MySpace to test ad-funded free music downloads
Hey, everyone! Guess what? MySpace is still going!
Its latest scheme to stop becoming a desolate wasteland as everyone switches to Facebook is this – free music. Free proper downloads, not just the low quality streaming business it’s made its own over the last few years.
The idea uses the Holy Grail of recent music…
Cheap GPS with the advert-funded adNav Boomerang
If you’re fully equipped with “ad blindness” from more than a decade of in-your-face internet advertising, you might be able to bear using the adNav Boomerang.
It’s a GPS gadget, only one that’s cheaper than most thanks the unique way…
Gmail launching free IMAP email for all users
Google has today announced that it will be rolling out free IMAP email to all its Gmail users. For the uninitiated, IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is generally considered the best way to synchronise an email account across multiple devices….
MySpace announces MySpace Games casual gaming service
MySpace has revealed its next big push: into casual online games. The social network is launching MySpace Games early next year, in partnership with gaming firm Oberon Media.
It’ll let you play hundreds of web games, including multiplayer titles, while also sharing them via your MySpace profile. The games will all be free of charge, and will tie into MySpace, for example letting you play against your friends. In-game chat will also feature heavily. MySpace and Oberon are promising “further community initiatives” in early 2008 too.
More free music downloads: this time from The Verve and the Charlatans
Those big bands can’t stop giving music away, now they’ve got the bug. We already knew that The Charlatans were planning to give their new album away with UK radio station XFM, but they’re kicking off with their new single ‘You Cross My Path’, which is available as a 256kbps MP3 download here.
Meanwhile, the freshly reformed Verve are also at it, teaming up with NME.com to give away, ahem, a 14-minute jam from their first session back in the recording studio.
iTunes drops price of DRM-free tracks in UK as well as US, adds more choons
A couple of days ago it was announced that Apple would be dropping the price of iTunes Plus DRM-free tracks on iTunes from $1.29 to just 99cents, matching nasty DRM-ridden tracks.
Only EMI tracks are sold as 256kbps, DRM-free AAC files, however starting today certain indie labels (Sub Pop!!!!) will be able to flog their wares in the same higher-quality format, in total two million…
BT partners with Fon to create UK Wi-Fi sharing network
In a surprising move, BT has partnered with Spanish firm Fon, giving their blessing (and resources) to the public Wi-Fi sharing service. It's surprising because it was believed that some ISPs would be against Fon's ethos, given that broadband customers…
Vodafone Inside Out – mobile phones for Second Life
Vodafone’s latest service has just gone into beta testing – and it’s only available to the odd inhabitants of Second Life. Vodafone Inside Out is an in-game mobile system, letting users call other avatars and even connect the call to proper phones out here in the proper world, if that’s not too frightening a prospect.
Once you’ve picked up a free handset (future money making potential – selling special editions) from an in-game Vodafone vending machine…
Justin.tv opens up to the masses: live video for all
Justin.tv has announced that anyone can now sign up for an account and being broadcasting live video for free. Started by Justin Kan, who chose to broadcast almost every aspect of his life, 24 hours a day, on the Internet,…
