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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...

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9 June 2008, 9:00

Inside a CD-less music label

News The idea is to release short three-song clusters online every few months over the course of nearly two years, allowing musicians to grow artistically and build an audience, an approach that differs radically from betting everything on a single 12...

11 November 2005, 10:50

iPod to transmit to radios?

News The invention, described as a "method for data transmission utilising a portable multimedia device", also taps an FM radio technology known as the Radio Data System (RDS) to wirelessly transmit data, such as artist and song title, to a receiver.

11 January 2006, 9:33

Google announces new applications

News Mayer led a demonstration in which a song icon was dragged and dropped on a media player, causing the song to start playing. Google announced on Wednesday an update to its Google Desktop product, as well as several new products designed to enhance...

11 May 2006, 9:53

News.blog: Google offers to track your music habits

News Each time a participant listens to a song on Apple's iTunes, the song information is registered by Google Music Trends via Google Talk. Google Music Trends lists the top artist and song choices broken down by genre, as well as their movement in...

18 August 2006, 9:49

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

Apple stops iTunes swapping

News An Apple representative on Wednesday confirmed that with the new version of iTunes, the company has "strengthened" the music-sharing feature to make sure that song sharing is limited to personal use and that only another copy of iTunes can access...

29 April 2004, 8:10

EMI talks with YouTube to combat piracy

News Ryan said EMI is interested in protecting video produced by the label, or video produced by someone else but which infringes on its intellectual property, for example someone lip-syncing a protected song or who has remixed a music video clip.

15 June 2006, 8:50

Amazon to sing DRM-free tunes

News Apple is expected to offer the label's DRM-free music beginning this month at 99p per song, versus DRM-protected music for 79p a song. Yahoo offered a single song without DRM from singer Jessica Simpson.

17 May 2007, 9:21

Rock history, available to download

News It's a business for Sagan, but the response -- in just a few days of existence, the streaming radio service has prompted thousands of listeners to send emails full of concert stories and song requests -- shows he's struck a nerve online.

20 February 2006, 10:05

News.blog: Turn your iPod nano into a weapon

News Employ the nano's intended purpose as a music player and place the Carpenters' song We've Only Just Begun onto the nano. Subsequently, you may offer the enemies your iPod, insisting they listen to the song 100 times, on repeat.

3 July 2006, 11:02

Legal music network struggles with illegal content

News The company adopted song-recognition technology from Audible Magic that helps it to identify songs as they are being downloaded, by comparing an audio "fingerprint" -- essentially a digital representation of a song's sonic characteristics...

3 November 2005, 9:02

Attack downs Yahoo, Google and Microsoft

News It was definitely some sort of Akamai issue," Song said in an interview. Dug Song, security architect for network security company Arbor Networks, said the outage appeared to be an Akamai problem. During the outage, Song noticed that sites such as...

16 June 2004, 7:35

Microsoft unwraps Zune for Christmas

News Not every song will be available to swap however, Erickson said. Should a user like a song a friend has shared, the song can be flagged and later can be purchased from the Zune Marketplace. Microsoft took the wraps off its Zune media player on...

15 September 2006, 10:21

Start-ups let fans sell music online

News That company encourages shoppers to 'pass' links to a favourite song or playlist to other people who might like it. Anytime somebody buys a song as a result of that link, the original shopper gets points that can be redeemed for additional music in...

17 August 2005, 9:43