If your head was already spinning from the growing number of streaming radio/music services currently on the market, sit down and take a load off. RIM is getting in the game too with BBM Music… Built off of the company’s popular BlackBerry Messenger chat platform, BBM Music will give users a profile of sorts with which to store (initially) up to 50 songs. The songs can be viewed and shared with friends, with increases in music storage coming from the...
Social butterflies and Netflix junkies will soon be able to mash the two favorite past times together with the announcement that Netflix integration is coming to Facebook! The only catch — the U.S. will not be an initial launch country… Our friends up in Canada and down south in Latin America will be two of the first countries to gain the new, socially aware Netflix functionality. As for why the U.S. won’t partake of launch day festivities — we...
Color us intrigued. A new webapp called Overhere allows you to enter in any Last.FM users’ account name and listen to their stream in (almost) real time. Simply click the “start listening” button in Overhere and you’ll soon be treated to the shared stream within Spotify. We say this all goes down in “almost” real time because there is a slight delay. Still, it’s nearly there and very cool. It goes without saying a Spotify...
If Netflix support on Android tablets is something that even remotely interests you, wait! Wait to buy a new tablet and for the love of everything holy don’t get early 2011 hardware. Why? It won’t run Netflix. While details are still a bit sketchy, it is looking like Netflix is requiring an actual DRM hardware chip to bring support to tablets. For now, Lenovo has a short exclusive with Netflix starting with the Lenovo IdeaPad K1 tablet. But once the...
In the worst possible case of bad timing after European based Spotify’s U.S. launch last week, Last.fm is going through a slew of problems today. According to Last.fm’s Colin Strickland, the “Rabd” service that controls most of the Last.fm’s recommendation, scrobbling, and sharing features went down around 04:00 GMT. Currently the team isn’t sure why the Rabd service went down but is (obviously) hard at work restoring things. As for...
