For most, when searching for a new pair of headphones, audio quality is usually somewhere near the top of the list. You know, being a device designed purely for audio reproduction, I would surely hope this is the case at least. But people have different likes and dislikes and companies cater to each and everyone. Some headphones shaped like animal heads, some actually vibrate to simulate the 18′s in the back of trunks, and even farther “out there”...
Oh geeze, another one of those music industry posts. Just stay with me for a minute. It’s actually quite important. Do you use any streaming services such as Last.fm, Pandora, and for those lucky humans outside of the US, Spotify? If so, you may want to get ready for a much thinner library of music to pull from. Warner music has announced that they see this “free” streaming business as detrimental to the music industry their business model and as...
Make no mistake about it, I love Spotify. Thankfully I got an opportunity to sample it about a month back for about 5 minutes and was instantly hooked. Living in the US however, I’m heartbroken that I can’t access it. It’s almost gotten to the point of searching YouTube for Spotify videos and living vicariously through the fortunate others outside of the US and it’s ancient (read: bullshit) copyright laws. Today however, my longing for the UK...
Fancy the streaming way of life and happen to live in the UK? Good news: the infant carrier, “3″, has announced that after the rather popular success of the HTC Hero/Spotify bundle, more Spoftify bundles are in the works. For consumers it means more options — never a bad thing. While the HTC Hero is still one of the most revered Android handsets, it just isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Now that more handsets will soon be in on all of...
Android users in the UK, listen up. If you were distraught and wondering around the streets of the mother country because you couldn’t download music OTA via the Amazon MP3 app, now is the day to put away that hanky. Amazon would love for you to know that UK’ers rockin’ that friendly little green machine can now partake of OTA music goodness. Of course, many users have already been using the service as a leaked version of the app was released some time...
Getting a good education in todays world is a must if you plan on getting anywhere in life. Those looking for such an education have many fine and prestigious schools across the world to choose from. Here in the states, Harvard is often heard when comparing various top schools as is Oxford for those in the UK. Today however we’re focusing on the latter and one decision in particular that has students bloddy angry. It all involves P2P file sharing, though, not in...
