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News.blog: Warner pulls catalogue from Last.fm

News Last.fm offers an on-demand streaming service that's free to members but has been seriously hamstrung by limits placed on song playback. The site allows users to listen three times to a song. Warner Music Group has pulled its entire catalogue from...

Tags: streaming, listen, song, warner

9 June 2008, 9:00

Report: Apple wants more mobile music

News Ringtones are a sweet deal for the labels because they typically are shorter versions of songs but retail for the same price -- sometimes higher -- of a full song. Apple is in talks with the largest record companies as it attempts to boost the...

Tags: labels, industry, companies, itunes

20 May 2008, 9:41

News.blog: Sony BMG links with Nokia music service

News What is groundbreaking about these deals -- Universal Music Group was first among the labels to join the service -- is that Nokia users can download any song from Sony BMG and keep the music for the rest of their lives.

Tags: labels, nokia, concept, music service

23 April 2008, 9:22

News.blog: Does streaming boost music sales?

News Imeem offers unlimited plays, while London-based Last.fm only allows a user to listen to an individual song three times. Free streaming music turns people on to new music and encourages them to buy, says social-networking site Last.fm.

Tags: unlimited, streaming, sales, plays

10 April 2008, 9:37

Photos: Control your iPod with a wink

News KomeKami Switch: close both eyes for a second to start the iPod and blink again to stop the machine; to replay a tune, wink strongly with the left eye for one second, or wink with the right eye to skip to the next song.

Tags: eye, ipod, switch, university

5 March 2008, 9:28

News.blog: Last.fm launches on-demand service

News When asked about this, Smith said that the three-song limit wasn't CBS' choice. It's no secret: ad-supported streaming music, held up as an alternative to both paid downloads and free-for-all piracy, has hit some twists and snags.

Tags: streaming, fans, ads, labels

24 January 2008, 8:23

iPhone unlikely to arrive in China soon

News Shen added that, unlike in the United States, where Apple operates its popular iTunes song-download service, Chinese users might be left bereft of content initially. Apple's iPhone is unlikely to hit Chinese shelves soon because of technical and...

Tags: stock, talk, chinese, executive

15 November 2007, 9:07

News.blog: Mother sues Prince over YouTube vid

News The pop star wanted YouTube to remove a clip of an infant boy dancing to his 1984 hit song 'Let's Go Crazy'. Prince can't push this mother around. When the clip got scrubbed, the baby's mother cried foul and filed suit asking for damages.

Tags: universal, label, deal, copies

31 October 2007, 9:33

Photos: Famous films, Lego style

News This video does spin off into an odd interpretation of the song, complete with grim reapers and other visions. If you remember the original video for Michael Jackson's Thriller, you'll recall that it was more than 13 minutes long and had the feel...

24 September 2007, 10:49

Vintage acts challenge YouTube

News They typically feature a person lip syncing to a popular song. He said that one has to consider that the two men who wrote the Village People's 1978 hit song YMCA are both Jewish. Google's video-sharing site has signed strategic partnerships with...

17 September 2007, 10:51

News.blog: Sony launches 200-disc Blu-ray changer

News One of our biggest knocks against Sony's older DVD changers was that disc information usually had to be added manually, which involved connecting a PC keyboard to the changer and tediously entering the disc title, song names and so on.

7 September 2007, 9:30

News.blog: Watermarking replacing DRM?

News Instead, it will only identify the particular song. Watermarking has been in the news twice in the past week. First, Wired's Eliot Van Buskirk revealed that Universal will insert watermarks in the DRM-free files it's distributing through Rhapsody...

17 August 2007, 12:01

Report: Eminem sues Apple

News Eight Mile Style and Martin Affiliated sued Apple in 2004 over the rapper's song, Lose Yourself, which Apple used in a TV commercial. Rapper Eminem has accused Apple of copyright infringement in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, according to a story...

1 August 2007, 8:21

Ask unleashes new Web search site

News The new site lets users listen to music clips by clicking on the song title, as well as the ability to enlarge images by rolling the cursor over the thumbnail. Ask has today launched a new search site that has analysts impressed, but it may not...

5 June 2007, 9:35

Apple under fire for embedding personal data in songs

News Apple includes customer names and email addresses within song files purchased from iTunes, according to Fred von Lohmann, an EFF attorney. DRM is also restrictive, telling you how many times you can play a song or which device it can be played on.

4 June 2007, 9:07