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'Big Brother' cameras listen out for aggro

News Smarter CCTV cameras have been given the ability to listen out for disturbances as well as keeping an eye on citizens. The system has already been deployed in the Netherlands to listen out for aggressive tones to counter violent attacks in Dutch...

23 November 2006, 9:22

News.blog: Google offers to track your music habits

News The search giant is now offering to track the music you listen to on your computer, then publish that information anonymously for anyone to view. Google refers to this tracking as casting a vote, but more specifically, Music Trends monitors and...

18 August 2006, 9:49

Tenfold growth in podcast consumption forecast

News By that time, three-quarters of all people who own portable digital music players will listen to podcasts, up from less than 15 per cent last year, the digital entertainment research group said. For instance, Forrester Research predicted in April...

7 July 2005, 10:00

Yahoo to launch podcast search site

News Searchers can listen to or subscribe to RSS (really simple syndication) feeds for individual shows or episodes of programming or entire series, he said. Users who listen to a podcast through the Yahoo site can increase the playback speed to hear...

10 October 2005, 10:04

News.blog: Warner pulls catalogue from Last.fm

News The site allows users to listen three times to a song. At rival Imeem, users can listen to free streaming music as many times as they want. Warner Music Group has pulled its entire catalogue from Last.fm, a company spokeswoman confirmed on Friday.

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9 June 2008, 9:00

RealNetworks offers free songs for new service

News But RealNetworks is also extending a bridge to cost-conscious digital music newcomers, offering people the ability to listen to 25 songs a month without paying anything at all. The new release of Rhapsody marks the first time that RealNetworks has...

27 April 2005, 11:46

BBC iPlayer gets 2.0 facelift

News Radio is more prominent with 'Listen Again' and live radio available with improved sound quality and the ability to rewind and fast forward on the listen again service. The BBC's iPlayer on-demand TV service has undergone a major facelift designed...

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26 June 2008, 8:58

News.blog: Terrorists use Google Earth

News Of course we are always ready to listen to governments' requests," he said. But we do listen and we are sensitive to requests. Google is talking with military agencies in Iraq after learning that terrorists attacking British bases in Basra appear...

17 January 2007, 9:49

Digital music singing new sales song

News A key feature of subscription services is that they give their users the ability to listen to unlimited amounts of music. As long as two people trading song recommendations have both paid the service's subscription fee, they can legally listen to...

20 January 2006, 10:58

Talk to your car with new tech

News VoiceBox recently signed a major deal with XM Satellite Radio to add voice-search capability to its channel-rich service, which is available to more than 6 million people in the US, many of whom listen in the car.

24 January 2006, 10:31

China: We don't censor the Web, honest

News I know that some colleagues listen to the BBC in their offices from the Webcast. But if he was in central China, he would not be able to listen on short-wave radio and not be able to read our Web site.

1 November 2006, 9:10

Photos: Behind the scenes at Napster UK

News But if you want to listen to those tracks on a portable media player, you'll have to pay extra for Napster To Go, which is the company's portable subscription service. Sharman said that people become trapped into the iTunes service as they can only...

5 September 2006, 13:38

Apple and Amazon key to DRM-free music

News Gore and Malmberg rip most of the songs they listen to from CDs and load it on to their iPods. It's ridiculous for them to say I can listen to songs only on the players they say I can. Not even Malmberg is convinced that offering consumers a way to...

18 May 2007, 10:23

Google launches Web-based calendar app

News There's no reason why you shouldn't be able to go to your calendar and say at 10 a.m.every morning I would like to listen to a podcast.and you listen to it through your calendar. Google plans to unveil a much-anticipated, free Web-based calendar...

13 April 2006, 9:45

Apple finally answers call for iPhone

News Wouldn't it be great if you had six voicemails, and you didn't have to listen to five first before listening to the sixth? The Mac OS X-based iPhone is most akin to an iPod in design, but allows users to listen to music, make phone calls, send text...

10 January 2007, 10:27