Jan 30 2008
In a move which is by the far the most credible threat to Apple’s dominance of the online music scene, Amazon will start rolling out it’s online music store to countries outside of the USA over the course of 2008. From the press release: Amazon to Begin International Rollout of Amazon MP3 in 2008 SEATTLE–(BUSINESS […]
May 23 2007
Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ) announced today that the NZ music charts will include statistics from the various online music stores available in NZ. This includes iTunes Music Store, Digirama, Amplifier, and the Telecom and Vodafone mobile stores. I’d also like to see a separate chart for downloaded music as it would be […]
May 16 2007
I’ve just read through the validation tests that Pete McVicar put the NetGuide 2007 Web wards finalists through. Just one site passed both the valid HTML and CSS tests – Public Address. Pete criticises TradeMe for their use of tables for layout and Rowan responded with his own comments. I commented on Rowan’s site that […]
May 16 2007
PC World NZ has the details (via Public Address | Hard News) on the pricing for individual DRM-free tracks from Apple’s iTunes Music Store. Turns out NZ’ers will be paying $2.49 per track, which is a 39% premium over the DRM-crippled tracks that currently sell for $1.79. This is also 9% more than US and […]
Apr 03 2007
It took a major announcement by Apple and EMI for me to break my blogging silence. Yesterday in London, EMI Group CEO Eric Nicoli and Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that EMI will be allowing DRM-free downloads of their entire music catalogue through Apple’s iTunes Music Store. Not only that, but the DRM-free tracks will […]
Feb 07 2007
Biggest news around the blogosphere today was about Steve Jobs’s memo about DRM and why we shouldn’t put up with it. I won’t go in too deep on his thoughts as there is already lots being said out there (check TechMeme, Technorati, or Google BlogSearch for details.) My brief thoughts are that although I agree […]
Sep 28 2006
Seems like lots of users had problems with iTunes 7 so it’s good to see Apple release an update so soon. Thanks to Neowin for the heads-up. Buy music, movies, TV shows, and audiobooks, or download free podcasts from the iTunes Store 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Organize and play everything on […]
Jun 24 2006
I've been studying for my next exam (Microsoft's 70-296) so I haven't spent much time reading through FeedDemon recently, so I decided to catch up this morning. I subscribe to 122 different feeds which you can look through here: OPML. There is a lot of good content out there, as well as a lot of […]