$1.17 million pledged as Melbourne company breaks Aussie Kickstarter record
A Melbourne-based company has broken the Australian record for a project funded through online crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter.
A Melbourne-based company has broken the Australian record for a project funded through online crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter.
With Xbox One, Microsoft's Universal apps are about to expand beyond Windows in a major way.
Everybody knew it. Now government does to. Yes, research has shown that Australia has high levels of online copyright infringement and this reinforces the need for international and industry cooperation to address piracy.
Another day, another artist who'll soon be missing from your streaming playlists.
Apple will make iOS 8.4, the upgrade necessary to try out the Cupertino, Calif. company's new streaming music service, available early Tuesday for downloading to iPhones and iPads.
Steve Jobs didn't believe music fans would ever pay to "subscribe" to streaming music. The times they are a-changin' in Cupertino.
I signed up for a trial subscription to Tidal last week, and decided to stay with the service after a few days of streaming to my desktop speakers and to my Sonos system (Spotify on Sonos sucks). I don't consider myself an audiophile--I don't even own a turntable--but I am passionate about audio quality, and Tidal streams in the same format that I use to rip the CDs that I purchase.
A mild-mannered tech and media support coordinator for Oregon State University Extension Service by day, Victor Villegas takes on the persona of The Drone Singer during his off hours. Yes, he fashions himself as the Weird Al Yankovic of drone songs.
Rumors of Apple launching an all-you-can-stream music service are nothing new. Ever since the company acquired Beats Music in May 2014, speculation has been rife that it could use some of the underlying technology for a new service under its own brand. Now, a couple of fresh reports have the Cupertino-based company finally launching that rumored Beats Music-based streaming service at WWDC in June.
Apple has alerted AOL subscribers who use their credentials to access iTunes and other Apple services that they will need to switch over to an Apple ID for access as of March 31.
The headphones we saw at CES 2015 were smart, connected, and packed with technology: There were headphones that could measure your heart rate, stream music from incredibly long range, allow you to hear ambient noise, and almost anything else you could imagine.
Despite outrage in some corners of the Internet, tens of millions of iTunes users were happy to add a free U2 album to their music collections.
First, Microsoft axed its video-producing Xbox Entertainment Studios and spun off Nokia's MixRadio streaming radio service as part of its devastating round of layoffs, which will see 18,000 jobs cut over the next year. Then, during Tuesday night's portentous quarterly earnings call with analysts and investors, CEO Satya Nadella dropped this little bomb:
YouTube users who like watching videos from indie label artists such as Adele, Arctic Monkeys, and Radiohead could soon lose access to their videos on the Google-owned site, thanks to a copyright fight between the indies and the video-sharing service.
Optus has partnered with Google to integrate a direct carrier billing model within the Google Play store.