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Pownce to be leapt upon by RIAA?

The music industry has often danced to a different tune. And with the start of the new school year, college students return to class with threatening legal documents awaiting them, care of the RIAA. If that’s the song the music labels and the RIAA want to dance to, it’s more like a their smooch than [...]

YouTube InVideo ads tech a turn off?

There’s more to YouTube these days than amateur video clips and 5-minute funnies. What with Google quite controversially closing the doors on their Google Video service, could YouTube point the way to video on demand?
In its current form, Google seem happy with the type and volume of content on YouTube, so there’s no reason for [...]

iPod inching closer to iPhone design?

What has to rank as one of the least difficult to predict Apple predictions in history, it looks like the iPod will take on the iPhone form factor sans the phone smarts…
The moment the Apple iPhone was rumoured way back when, I began to think. Then when there was talk of full screen and touch [...]

My iTunes widget a one-hit-wonder?

All this talk of Apple’s new My iTunes being about ’social music’ is a little belated and more than a little like not enough. I’d say the interactive social music high ground was seized by Last.fm and Musicovery yonks ago…
OK, so Last.fm didn’t buy anyone ‘coz they were much too busy being bought out themselves [...]

Google’s YouTube to show some charity?

I’m not often moved by local affairs. I don’t even read the local papers all that often. But if there’s something of note, my dad will read aloud, and we’ll either laugh and rage. So what do Google’s YouTube, a singer from Barnsley and a charity have in common that got me thinking?
Sat in his [...]