Spotify, like all friendly streaming music giants, needs to make money. While the popular streaming service does make revenue through subscriptions, the cost of paying for all those music licenses is high. So what’s a company that needs to make a good deal of money to do? While Spotify can’t »
04/14/2012, Jim LewisRemember what CDs look like? Heck, if you are like most people, you probably have a box of CDs somewhere. Even if you don’t listen to those CDs anymore (what’s that? You do?!), Amazon wants what you’ve got. Today, the online retail giant announced that anyone who has a collection »
04/11/2012, Harriette HalepisStreaming versus paid downloads, which type of music service is better? If you ask Jimmy Iovine (co-founder of Beats), he’s putting his money on streaming services. The Verge has just released a report that Beats (manufacturers of top-quality headphones) might be unleashing a streaming music service very soon. According to »
04/05/2012, Alex ChoiPopular music downloading site The Pirate Bay has recently issued a controversial press release. The release states that the company plans to invest in airplane drones that will operate as “sky servers” in order to avoid any real legal crackdown on copyright infringement. Some news sources are taking this press »
03/20/2012, Jim LewisBillboard’s Top 100 Hit Songs has been around since 1955. Up until today, those songs that make the Top 100 Hit list were ranked based upon overall sales and radio play. Today, things are a bit different in the music world. Streaming services like Spotify and Rdio are what many »
03/14/2012, Alex ChoiWhat if you knew exactly where to park before you got to the stadium? What if you could find out what the weather is like before you decide not to wear a rain jacket? Thanks to IBM’s new “smarter cities” enterprise, the Sun Life Stadium (where the Miami Dolphins play) »
03/03/2012, Alex ChoiWhile other music providers seem to be light years ahead of Google, the search dominator is (slowly) catching up. Google Music users can now save an entire library of songs to Google Music, so that all of those tunes are safe no matter what happens. Google has been playing around »
01/27/2012, Alex Choi