Share Early last week, a six-month promotion period, during which U.S. users were exempted from Spotify’s five-plays-per-song, 10-hours-per-month limits, was due to end for the first of the service’s American adopters, if reports were to be believed. But that apparently hasn’t yet happened. U.S. users are apparently still enjoying desktop streaming with no such limits, [...]
Share Chasing the post-download digital music opportunity, veteran services are seeking scale to fight dominant newcomers, whilst strangers from outside the space are launching their own new services with mixed success. The Incumbent On the eve of the big Midem music conference in Cannes, Rhapsody today says it is moving in to Europe by acquiring [...]
Share Android games have notched up more than 2.5 billion downloads since the launch of Google’s Android Market store, taking a 25.6 percent share of the store’s first 10 billion downloads. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) revealed the 10 billion milestone on 6 December, adding that the Market is currently generating 1 billion new downloads a month. [...]
Share Guest writer Israel Kendall provides a detailed outline of the issues at hand as well as a great video demo of the product in action. If you’re a Spotify subscriber and own a PlayStation3, you’ve probably often wondered how long it would be until there is a Spotify app for your PS3. The more [...]
Share Whilst TMV does not normally post content purely from PR’s this is actually very good and has managed to keep its independence. This video project includes what Soundcloud bills as ‘ten sound experts’. Artists including, Imogen Heap, Moby, Tim Exile, Jad Abumrad and Ben Rubin all share their views on why sound is so [...]
Share Guest TMV columnist Michael Robertson from MP3tunes.com provides some dynamic insight into the fact Facebook is learning how to ripoff music services and subjecting them to slave type terms and conditions. He comments on how Facebook takes its cue from record labels and their one sided deals with artists. Very good and well thought [...]
Share Within a few hours of each other, Mog and then Rdio announced they will add free-to-play tiers to their subscription online music services, in a bid to drive up consequential paid subscriptions. It looks like affirmation of rival Spotify’s freemium model, with which it has attracted 1.6 million paying subscribers by giving some free [...]
Share The rumours are unstoppable: Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is going to unveil a tablet in the next few weeks, and if the hands-on description of an internal prototype by MG Siegler over at Techcrunch are even vaguely correct, then it’s going to be a 7in device with a colour touchscreen running a forked version of [...]
Share The Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad controls around 80 percent of the tablet market, which has seen just in the last month one high-profile casualty, the HP (NYSE: HPQ) TouchPad, fall in the face of competition. But that is not stopping the rush of device makers looking to launch products to gain a foothold in [...]
Share A few months back TMV staff writer Laura G Thorne examined digital content entrepreneur Michael Robertson’s DAR.fm (when it was in alpha stage). Here at TMV we’ve recently read all the hype regarding the recent launch of Turntable.fm – Well, DAR.fm is officially being launched today and TMV believe it will deliver new and [...]
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