MoMail…email everywhere

The future is here and the future is MoMail. Not heard of it yet? It’s a matter of time. Momail is simple, free downloadable software that turns any mobile into one that can receive and deal with email. A mobile email account that levels the playing field between those with crackberrys and those without. Compatible [...]

Bizmo – cool gizmo

So no longer are we just consumers and listeners of music, we can now make money from our personal preferences and favourite artists. Bizmo is a new widget that is easy to cut and paste in blogs and social networking sites that allows people to buy tickets for gigs. They get an instant text [...]

The Land of Tunage

This is pretty swish. Gracenote – those lovely people who make the track names pop up when you put a CD in your drive (assuming you’re online at the time) have done a lovely map of the world where you can click on each individual country and find out what top ten artists they’re into. [...]

Music industry continues to do stupid shit

Due to upcoming changes in the UK chart rules, the 29th of October will see the widespread selling of singles on USB keys. This move according to Brian Rose (Commercial Director at Universal UK) is aimed at “12 to 24 year olds, who no longer believe that the CD is as cool as it used [...]

Napster to drop stand alone app for web based store

Napster U.S. announced yesterday that it plans to drop it’s standalone application subscription model in favour of a new web based subscription model.
Christopher Allen, Chief Operating Officer at Napster, said, “With this new platform, Napster can easily be integrated into consumer electronics devices or integrated into other Web sites such as social networking sites.”
What this [...]

Has Sony BMG/MySpace deal just opened up the flood gates?

In addition to the deal announced with Honda this day last week, Sony BMG have just announced that they’ve set up an ad supported deal with MySpace. The interesting point here is that unlike the deal with Honda who were essentially paying Sony to have a bit of stardust rub off on their car, MySpace [...]

Universal looks to phone manufacturers to make money

The most powerful music exec in the world – Doug Morris – has been rallying troops from not just his own but all music majors to try and stem the flow of power away from iTunes. Sony BMG seems to be on board already and Warner are close to following suit on a move that [...]

Yahoo Music Chief tells is like it is

I read this on Digital Music News two days ago but didn’t report on it then, I’ve come across it again and it makes bloody good sense so here is Ian Rogers (Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo Music) talking about his frustrations with content owners (read: music majors): “In the end you get [...]

Everyone’s ‘doing a Radiohead’

I’m pretty sure its not some new dance move but is in fact the act of giving away their album for free as a download. Doing a ‘The Charlatans’ obviously doesn’t have the same ring to it. Anyway, according to Drowned in Sound it appears that Oasis, Jamiroquai and NIN are all going to ‘do [...]

iHeard: about good websites for Internet Radio

Terrible pun. Anyhoo, iHeard is a search engine for internet radio stations. In addition to the already-written-about-within-these-pages Podanza Fusa Capital Corporation have developed this little tool. Its not just limited to stream only internet radio stations but also allows you to search for terrestrial stations who have a simulcast online (which means you’ll probably end [...]