EMI files a lawsuit against Bluebeat.com
Bluebeat.com is in news these days as the company seems to be operating an illegal digital media store.
They are offering music tracks from almost all the major artists at very low prices.
One of the highlights is that they have on offer the entire catalog of The [...]
BlueBeat selling Beatles music and more online for cheap!
BlueBeat is a new digital media store that is selling something no other store has on offer.
They are offering the entire Beatles’ catalog at impressive prices (25 cents per MP3!).
Wired has an article on them and they are pretty sure that this company is doing it [...]
Barnes & Noble launches Nook eBook Reader
Barnes & Noble has officially launched their Kindle challenger named Nook.
Nook offers some innovative features compared to Amazon Kindle.
Users would get the ability to lend their owned books to friends who can read them out using an application on their mobile devices or even desktop computers.
Nook is powered [...]
China’s Ministry of Culture might have some terrible news for Baidu
Baidu is the most popular search engine service in the Chinese market.
China remains the biggest web market in the world.
Baidu search is one of the most used search engine in the country to search for music files.
The company does not host any [...]
T3 magazine names Sony Walkman the most important music invention
T3 magazine has surprised Apple fans by naming Sony Walkman the best music related invention of the last 50 years.
The Sony Walkman managed to defeat Dolby sound system, Compact Discs and the current market leader iPod to top the list.
This comes just as the [...]
Napster lowers the price of music subscription services
Digital media store Napster has announced that they are now reducing the subscription prices for their services.
The company has now slashed the price of its subscription service by nearly 62%.
Napster is hoping to increase their subscriber base with these reduced prices as they compete with giants in [...]
Wal-Mart Stores also increases price on their music store
The change of pricing of songs on the Apple iTunes has resulted in a similar increase on other services.
Amazon MP3 has already implemented a price hike and now Wal-Mart Stores has also increased the price of some of the songs on sale on their store. [...]
MP3HD is the HD version of MP3!
Thomson has released software for creating and playing a new audio file format they call MP3HD.
The developers claim that the file provides lossless compression.
The MP3HD files would be around four times the size of a regular MP3 file but would be compatible with MP3 Players.
Compatible [...]
Apple iTunes to offer more DRM free music at variable prices
Apple has announced plans to offer all music DRM free on their Apple iTunes digital media store.
The company has also now introduced variable pricing on the media available on the store.
Apple said that the music files are now available in three price points: 69 [...]
Microsoft Zune: 10 free songs per month on subscription service!
Microsoft has announced a new scheme for users on their Zune digital media store.
Users are being offered 10 free songs every month if they subscribe to the monthly service worth USD 14.99.
This new offer is aimed at users who do not like going for [...]
