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Spotify Finally Launches Web Radio, For Real. And That's a Problem For Pandora
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A lot of people confuse Spotify’s streaming music service with Pandora’s streaming music service. Now they’re going to be a lot more confused. In a way that’s good for Spotify and a problem for Pandora. Spotify, which lets people listen to music for free, on demand, has finally launched its...
Spotify, we need a break. I’m falling for Songza
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I’m a huge fan of Spotify. It somehow seems so long ago that the service swooped in and replaced iTunes altogether with cheap streaming of almost every artist I could hope listen to (except the Beatles). But what made me love Spotify now makes me hesitant to open it. I’m...
The Beatles' Apple Corps Logo is now a Registered TM of Apple
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On 5 February 2007, Apple Inc. and Apple Corps announced a settlement of their trademark dispute under which Apple Inc. would own all of the trademarks related to "Apple" and would license certain of those trademarks back to Apple Corps for their continued use. The settlement ended the ......
The Beatles' 'Yellow Submarine' restored in 4K resolution, coming to DVD and Blu-ray on May 28th
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If you want to watch some classic 60s nostalgia in the highest resolution possible, the new remaster of Yellow Submarine might do the trick. The Beatles' ode to "peace, love, and hope" (and possibly illicit substances) has been restored in 4K resolution and will be released on Blu-ray and...
The Beatles’ music is now available as official ringtones for the first time
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The Beatles catalogue of music eventually arrived on iTunes back in 2010, but from today, fans of the Liverpool band around the world can, for the first time, buy ringtones for the 27 of the Beatles UK and US number one hits, which are available exclusively on iTunes. The 27...
My Best Tech Gift Ever: Beatles catalog on a USB key
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What do you get a guy who's probably seen every gadget imaginable? If he's a music fiend like Dan Ackerman, try a USB device packed with tracks by the Fab Four. [Read more]...
The Beatles Launch Exclusive Ringtones Through iTunes Store
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Continuing their close relationship with the iTunes Store following a landmark deal to launch their music in the store in late 2010, The Beatles today announced the release of their first official ringtones, available exclusively through the iTunes Store.Beginning today, fans around the world can, for the first time, purchase...
The Beatles’ music arrives on 50,000 digital jukeboxes across North America
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Sixteen months after its back-catalogue finally arrived on iTunes, and three weeks after it became available as official ringtones, The Beatles’ music has now been licensed to TouchTunes Interactive Networks, North America’s largest downloading pay-per-play network of digital jukeboxes. TouchTunes provides jukeboxes to more than 50,000 bars and restaurants across...
Apple now officially owns Beatles' Apple Corps Logo
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A company had opposed Apple's ownership of the logo, but the electronics giant was issued the registered trademark yesterday, according to Patently Apple. [Read more]...
AC/DC end their iTunes holdout
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Just weeks after Kid Rock finally made his iTunes debut, Apple has won over another high-profile holdout from its music downloads store: AC/DC. The news is hard to miss: a prominent banner on the iTunes homepage advertising the fact that the rock band's catalogue is now available to buy on...
We're live from CeBIT 2013 in Hannover!
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Hannover might not be as famous as Hamburg (Beatles), Berlin (politics) or Frankfurt (erm, meat-based cuisine), but for one week in March, it's home to one of the world's biggest tech events. Unlike our jaunts to MWC and CES, we're never quite sure what weird and wonderful things we're...
Tomorrow’s Google homepage is an epic playable tribute to the Moog synthesizer
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Robert Moog is considered by many to be the father of the modern synthesizer. While the Moog synth wasn’t the first ever, it popularized the use of transistors to create wild sound that could be funky or haunting and everything in between. Now, tomorrow’s (well, today’s if you live in...
Seven Questions for Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers
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Shortly after he concluded his quarterly earnings conference call yesterday, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers called me up — upbeat and understandably so. Cisco appears to have continued its recovery following a painful restructuring. Sales are up and setting records, earnings beat the consensus of analysts, and Cisco’s outlook for...
Aaron Sorkin: Writinga movie about Steve Jobs is like writing about The Beatles
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Today, Aaron Sorkin, who is in the process of writing a film about Steve Jobs’ life —based on the Walter Isaacson biography — spoke at the All Things D conference. He had some interesting things to say about the movie, including that writing about Jobs was like writing about The Beatles....
Curator of the world's only 8-track museum shows some love to the fallen format
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Bucks Burnett began collecting eight-track tapes in 1988 when he stumbled onto a $7 Beatles White Album cartridge at a garage sale. That discovery set off a quest to collect every Beatles eight-track ever released, culminating in the world’s only museum dedicated to the format — The Eight Track...
Steve Jobs gets a Grammy for work on the iPod and iTunes
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The late Steve Jobs was honored with a Grammy Trustees Award on Saturday for his contributions to the music industry, which included helping to develop the iPod and reshaping the way music is sold with the iTunes Store. The award is meant to “recognize contributions to the music industry...
Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs Movie Probably Won’t Be “Cradle To Grave” Biography
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Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin offered some early thoughts today on movie adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs, which he has signed on to write. Sorkin was speaking at the D10 conference, and it sounds like he hasn’t actually written any of the screenplay yet — he said the initial stages of...
This is the Modem World: Nothing is new. It's been done before.
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Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology. It's funny how things come back around. When I was growing up in the '80s, music was looking back at the '50s and '60s and re-creating it into some...
Four HUBOs "Come Together" for a Drexel Engineering MET-lab demo
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Robot Beatles cover band? Check. Students at Drexel University's Music and Entertainment Technology Lab (MET-lab) have developed software that allows HUBO robots to create tunes following a musical score. The Roboband plays the song without human control during the performance -- a demo that combines humanoid tech and creative...
Unauthorized Remix Improves On Landmark Unauthorized Mashup, The Grey Album
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This is a story of massive infringement upon infringement. Or it's a story about culture and building awesome things from the building blocks others helped put together. Or both -- which really should say something about copyright laws today. It was nearly nine years ago that EMI went completely off...
'Yellow Submarine' remaster to emerge in Blu-ray, theaters
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After a long wait, Beatles fans will finally get big-screen and Blu-ray versions of a frame-by-frame digital restoration of the film "Yellow Submarine." [Read more]...
Here’s Ashton Kutcher playing Steve Jobs on Acid [Photos]
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A french website just posted pictures of Ashton Kutcher acting as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs while on LSD during a shoot for the upcoming biopic on the late chief. [Image source: Premiere.fr] Related articles Aaron Sorkin compares daunting task of Steve Jobs biopic to ‘writing about The Beatles’ ‘jOBS’ biopic starring...
FastComany’s Brent Schlender unearths some Steve Jobs wisdom from the ‘Lost Years’
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We’re always surprised when writers suddenly realize that they have hours and hours of unreleased Steve Jobs interviews that they forgot about so long after his passing. FastComany’s Brent Schlender has such a trove from Steve Jobs’ NeXT (and Pixar) years. With that, check out the whole article here, summarized below (Illustrations by...
Audiogalaxy Mixes brings back P2P sharing with Pandora-style radio
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Audiogalaxy has come up with a use for its peer-to-peer (P2P) networking experience while staying in the record companies' good books. Yesterday, the company launched a personalized radio service similar to Pandora or Last.fm radio, which uses P2P to share your library with other users. Named Mixes, the service...
The Beatles ringtones: roll up for the magical mystery tone
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After a decade of resistance, band license 27 of their hits to iTunes for use as mobile ringtonesAfter holding out against ringtones for more than a decade, the Beatles have licensed 27 of their top singles for purchase as annoying, truncated mobile phone alerts.The entirety of the Beatles' 2000 compilation...
Steve Jobs Honored at Grammys
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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was awarded a posthumous Grammy Trustees Award Saturday evening for his contributions to the music industry and his part in creating the iPod and iTunes. Apple senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue, accepted the award on his behalf. “Accepting this award means...
Frank Zappa music catalog now available on iTunes, could be coming soon to Spotify and Rdio
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Freak out (!), because another music legend's starting to bite the iTunes pie. With the well-documented Beatles-on-iTunes saga well behind us, it's time for the late Frank Zappa to become one of the most recent artists to join Cupertino's media repertoire. This means that there's now over 50 of...
Apple obtains Beatles' Granny Smith trademark for Apple Corps
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Apple is now the owner of the logo for Apple Corps, the holding company and owner of the record company for legendary band The Beatles....
Whyd mines YouTube, Soundcloud and others for songs Spotify can't deliver (hands-on)
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Remember how long it took Spotify to end up in the States? The issue? Music rights, of course. Before it could make its way to our shores, the service had to strike deals with a bunch of record labels, making sure the artists, the executives and EMI janitorial staffs...
iTunes Store update lets you buy media today, download it tomorrow
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While we like the convenience of shopping the iTunes Store from any device, that doesn't mean we want the download wherever we happen to be -- just ask anyone trying to buy the Beatles Box Set using a flaky coffee shop hotspot. As of a quiet update noticed by...
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