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Digital listening growing whilst radio is slipping in the US

News Although radio continued to be the preferred medium, the number of consumers listening to radio fell by 4 percent in March 2005 to 194 million, down from 203 million a year earlier. The rise of digital listening and storage for music continues...

16 May 2005, 12:07

Is Microsoft finally listening to Web developers?

News When Microsoft 'technical evangelist' Robert Scoble complained in his blog about being snubbed at a Texas conference, he probably didn't think he was laying the groundwork for a truce in the long-running war over Web browser standards.

5 August 2005, 10:10

News.blog: Google offers to track your music habits

News Google is listening; but only if you want it to. The information is compiled so that anyone can see at any given moment what people in the US are listening to. Listeners may share with Google Talk buddies what they are listening to by changing...

18 August 2006, 10:49

High-def music for the MP3 generation

News The rise of digital music players has made it easier to cart hundreds of songs around but has done little to improve listening experience, say music aficionados. Yet iPods and other digital music players can't provide the ultimate listening...

16 May 2006, 16:09

BBC to sell digital music downloads?

News It already makes recent radio programmes available for post-broadcast listening on its website and in recent months 1.4 million users downloaded recordings of nine Beethoven symphonies that the broadcaster offered for free.

30 August 2005, 10:50

Microsoft U-turns on Vista transfer limits

News At the same time, after listening to the feedback that came in, we felt that we needed to make this change. We'll keep listening to people's feedback. Reversing a licensing change announced two weeks ago, Microsoft said on Thursday that it will not...

3 November 2006, 10:22

Cricket could turn IT networks to ashes

News The high-quality version of the TMS radio feed is around 42kbps, so a company with a large number of users listening simultaneously could see its LAN or Internet connection come under much greater strain than usual.

9 September 2005, 11:45

Microsoft's Zune: social butterfly?

News The music sent is the same as what the DJ is listening to; if they stop listening, the stream is interrupted. Microsoft's forthcoming Zune player is striving to be the life of the party, allowing users to create mobile social networks and stream...

29 August 2006, 9:15

Google Talk gets upgrade for first birthday

News Another new feature allows Google Talk users to indicate to their friends what music they are listening to via their status message. Google Talk, which is celebrating its first year with an upgrade, will from today let people easily transfer files...

16 August 2006, 10:10

Tech not a concept to youngsters

News The surveyors found that the most popular activities among those in the 8-to-14 bracket are watching TV, listening to music and being with friends. The rankings for those older were similar, though listening to music was top.

25 July 2007, 11:14

Survey: Americans don't want mobile TV

News Americans may not be as enamoured by the idea of watching TV and listening to music on their mobile phones as the mobile networks had hoped. According to a survey conducted by RBC Capital Markets, about 75 per cent of roughly 1,000 people polled...

6 March 2006, 10:12

Podcasts: pretty much just for blokes

News Chances are, if you've recorded a podcast in the last year, the people listening in were men. A survey in December by Podtrac, a company that aims to connect podcasters and advertisers, showed that 78 percent of those who have ever listened to a...

28 December 2005, 11:51

News.blog: Apple reviews album pricing

News After listening to them a few times, you think you might want the album. It's one of the problems of the digital-music era. You buy a couple of songs from an album at 79 pence each. Trouble is, you've either got to buy the other nine tracks...

13 November 2006, 9:52

Top 10 alternative uses for an iPod

News But the rise of the iPod has prompted generations of developers -- and creative end-users -- to exploit possibilities other than simply listening to music or watching videos. You may be used to seeing people listen to iPods on the train.

20 March 2007, 10:33

News.blog: One crappy iPod

News The student, who has since come forward, said she was listening to her pink iPod Mini when she flushed the toilet, according to Santa Clara, California.based NBC 11. Normally, it's the just some of the songs downloaded onto Apple's iPod that are...

15 June 2006, 10:47

Format wars: The tech that should have won

Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed

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