After last months announcement from Spotify that a deal had been signed with Sony, music streaming aficionados began getting excited. Finally we were beginning to see some progress on an innovative music streaming service that had been promised to us for many months. As we look onwards in 2011, it’s been well over a year since Spotify originally announced plans to tap the U.S. market. Unfortunately thus far, greed on behalf of the major music labels has stalled...
Users of Last.fm in the U.S. UK, and Germany will have some hard choices to make in the near future. Popular music streaming service and Pandora competitor, Last.fm, has announced that the aforementioned countries will now have to pay extra for mobile access and Last.fm usage on desktop/laptop devices. While the move to a pay-to-play scenario has already been enacted in many other places of the world under Last.fm’s reach, the U.S., UK, and Germany remained free of...
Tomorrow is a good day for Android aficionados because of a special Android 3.0 Honeycomb event hosted by Google themselves. But one other thing that may pique the interest of Android lovers is rumors of the long awaited Android Market Web Store. This browser-based Android Market would essentially work just like iTunes does for iOS (or App World for BlackBerry) — allowing you to browse through the vast expanses of said app store on your computer. The only other...
As if we didn’t already have enough pointless laws swirling through local and federal governments alike, New York and Arkansas would like to push the boundaries of stupidity with a new anti-media player while running law. Lawmakers from both states want to make it so that running is more or less treated exactly like driving in that you should be distraction free. Of course, to people with at least a few ounces of common sense, this is the dumbest thing you’ve...
The quest for Spotify music streaming services in the U.S. just inched a little closer to reality today. Sources of AllThingD’s Peter Kafka have stated that Spotify just recently closed a deal with Sony in the U.S. market, finally putting to rest countless rumors over the last several months indicating such a deal was actually being hammered out. While good news for Spotify hopefuls, the road is still long and treacherous. Sony is but one label in a country with 4...
