By Emily Price |
Earlier this week Amazon launched its Cloud Drive, and Cloud Player service. The cloud drive allows you to store 5GB of music for free that you can then access from any computer or Android phone. If you buy an MP3 album from Amazon your amount…
By Emily Price |
Amazon has officially launched its Cloud Player service we heard rumors about yesterday. The free service allows US customers to upload their MP3 purchases to their own personal 5GB of cloud storage, and then access that cloud from any computer or Android device. Purchasing an MP3 album…
By Noah Kravitz |
I told you Amazon’s really the one Apple had better look out for this year. They might just be prepping an Android tablet to go toe-to-toe with iPad on its own turf: Content. The pieces are falling into place like so many iDucks in an…
By Emily Price |
Rumor has it that the newest version of MobileMe may include a music locker. The service is expected to get an update in April of this year, with many speculating the update to include some cloud-based services. The Music Void is reporting that one of…
By Jack McGrath |
Remember all of those now-ancient cartoons that made all of us believe that by 2011 families would live on floating disks and move around in hovercars? While one might find it disappointing that neither of those things have been implemented in reality, we are now…
By Noah Kravitz |
What started out as a boat shoe for deck hands needing comfortable, waterproof footware with lots of grip may just have spurred the biggest sports industry revolution since … well, since Nike launched the first athletic shoe revolution back in the early 1970′s. Funny thing…
By Jack McGrath |
NPD Group announced that Netflix’s share of streaming video content market has reached a definitive 61 percent. Comparatively, that’s about fifteen times the share that Apple’s iTunes movie store has reached. Does Netflix have an edge on its competitors? How will the rental service take…
By Emily Price |
In an interview with Sunday Times Magazine, Bon Jovi attacked Steve Jobs, saying that the Apple CEO “is personally responsible for killing the music industry.” Jovi claims “Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding…
By Sean P. Aune |
As the news of the devastation in Japan following Friday’s earthquake continues to mount, companies from all sectors are trying to find ways to ease the donation process for people looking to help. As with most natural disasters, the Red Cross is leading the way with offering…
By Emily Price |
Following a massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Tokyo, Japan; Google has launched a free Person Finder to help people located friends and family who might have been in Japan during the quake. The quake was one of the largest ever recorded, and triggered Tsunamis over 20-feet…
By Noah Kravitz |
The battle for your streaming music budget is on, big time. Earlier today Europe-based service Spotify announced they’ve hit the 1,000,000 paid subscriber milestone – a full quarter million more than Rhapsody can count, and Spotify hasn’t even launched in the US. Apple’s fabled North…
By Emily Price |
Warner Brothers is now renting movies on Facebook. Movies cost 30 Facebook credits ($3) to rent, and can be watched for 48 hours directly on Facebook, with the ability to pause the film as well as stop and start it again as much as you…
By Emily Price |
Apple is reportedly considering creating an iTunes backup service of sorts, that makes it easy for you to download content that you have purchased through the service to all of the devices you have synced with your iTunes account, without having to repurchase it. So, what…
By Emily Price |
The Social Network may have missed out on the award for best picture at last night’s Oscars, losing to The King’s Speech; but that didn’t stop it from picking up three other awards at the show. The film picked up the award for: Best Adapted…
By Sean P. Aune |
The long rumored Google Music Store could finally be coming with the launch of Honeycomb according to some sources. Earlier today we reported how Motorola spoke with the press in defense of the pricing on the XOOM tablet. During the same press session at the…
By Sean P. Aune |
Hulu has announced that it is adding the 800 films of the Criterion Collection to Hulu Plus. The Criterion Collection, a selection of 800 films from around the world, that are known for their elaborate presentations on DVD, is coming to Hulu Plus in its…
By Sean P. Aune |
Pandora, the popular streaming Internet music service, has filed the paperwork necessary to take itself public. In documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Feb. 11th, it was revealed that Pandora was intending to issue shares of common stock of itself in…
By Tom Moccia |
Cell phones could soon help in the production of movies where people follow pre-determined paths, all the while filming their actions with their phones. A few weeks ago a friend of mine attended the Sundance Film Festival and saw some amazing films, even some with…
By Tom Moccia |
In a keynote address at the mHealth Summit, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates proposed a solution to a problem that has been facing health administrators for as long as anyone can remember. Registering births, and having parents be diligent about vaccinating children, has been a concern,…
By Tom Moccia |
There have been numerous reports, as well as job postings on SimplyHired.com, that Apple is looking to recruit college students for its college advisor program. Along with the online job listings Apple has been passing out fliers on college campuses. I’m not sure if this…
By Tom Moccia |
The iPhone has revolutionized how we access information, interact with the web, as well as other people via mobile social networking. In addition, the health care industry has started implementing smartphones and tablets in all sorts of administrative aspects, from patient health charts, billing, and…
By Jon Rettinger |
There’s no way around it, I’m a geek. I wear my nerd-dom like a scarlet letter of pride. I’ve always been ‘into tech’ as my mom likes to say. During my High School and college days (University of Rochester), whenever I’d get stressed, or just…
By Tom Moccia |
The record labels think they have figured out a way to stop music piracy, but will earlier sales really help all that much? Ten years ago music pirates started to pillage the music industry and record labels have been trying to remedy the problem ever…
By Noah Kravitz |
Anyone out there see TRON: Legacy? What’d you think? I got to see an advance screening with the Nokia folks, and honestly I was underwhelmed. Then again, I remember the original TRON arcade game much better than I do the movie, so maybe that’s saying…
