iTunes in the Cloud delayed for UK music fans until 2012
Mobile PhonesApple's new online music services won't come to the UK until 2012. The British record industry licensing body has confirmed our suspicions that iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match aren't coming to these shores any time soon.
The Performing Right Society (PRS), which sorts out licensing and royalties so artists, composers and labels get paid, is in talks with Apple, but negotiations are at a "very early stage". The Telegraph reports that major record labels have reached "tentative" deals with Jobs' mob, but the services probably won't launch to the great British public until next year. Continue reading...
Les Paul Google doodle is a playable guitar
SoftwareGood evening the Internet! Guitar legend Les Paul is the inspiration for today's Google doodle, which turns the Google logo into a guitar you can strum with your mouse or keyboard.
Today is the birthday of Les Paul -- born Lester William Polsfuss in 1915. Paul was a guitar-playing legend who not only made guitars sing, he also made them. Paul hung round the Epiphone factory after hours, building one of the first solid-body guitars, known as the 'The Log'. Continue reading...
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Lara Croft uses Beats by Dr Dre headphones, and an iPhone 4
Games and GearHere's an odd one -- while perusing the E3 trailer for the new Tomb Raider game, we noticed that iconic pistol-packing heroine Lara Croft was using what are -- unmistakably -- Beats by Dr Dre headphones. Continue reading...
iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match not coming to UK any time soon
SoftwareApple has revealed iCloud, but there's no silver lining for music-lovers here in the UK. Our cousins in the US are happily using new online services in iTunes from today, so we asked Apple when -- or if -- we'll see iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match here in Britain.
The online storage and syncing service iCloud will launch to the public this autumn. Once you've updated your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to iOS 5, you can sign up to iCloud and start backing up your data and photos. The music-related bits of the service are more complicated, unfortunately, and are only currently available in the US. Continue reading...
iCloud complete guide
SoftwareSteve Jobs took to the stage today to talk about Apple's newest service, iCloud. It stores your content online and pushes it to all your other Apple devices -- and wonderfully it's free.
It's a bold stab at encouraging people who own one Apple device to buy into a whole Apple-flavoured ecosystem. But what exactly does it offer? Read our complete guide for the skinny. Continue reading...
Apple iCloud stores and syncs all your data across all your devices -- for free
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Apple iCloud has appeared on the horizon. Apple boss Steve Jobs revealed that iCloud and iTunes in the Cloud replace MobileMe, wirelessly syncing everything on your iPhone or iPad to all your other Apple devices, and automatically adding new music to all your devices in one go. Best of all: it's all free!
iCloud stores all your data from apps, all your video and pictures, all your contacts and calendars and email... basically everything on your phone is pushed to the cloud and synced to all your other Apple devices. Even your music is being pushed into the cloud -- but only in the US for now.
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Apple iCloud music streaming service confirmed
SoftwareThere's an iCloud on the horizon. Apple has confirmed the existence of iCloud, a new online music-streaming service from the people behind iTunes and the iPod -- which means we'll almost certainly be kept waiting for the iPhone 5.
Apple says it will reveal details of iCloud at its annual Worldwide Developers' Conference in San Francisco. WWDC has been the launch platform for each new version of the iPhone up to this point, but as Apple looks to keep the focus on software it seems the forecast isn't good for a new iPhone next week. Continue reading...
Facebook and Spotify rumoured to be working on music service
SoftwareFacebook and Spotify are planning a new music service that could be launched within two weeks, Forbes reports.
The social network wants to make beautiful music by integrating a service that allows you to stream songs from Spotify's vast library. You'll see a Spotify icon appear on the left-hand side of your newsfeed along with your photos and events, and once you click on it, it installs the app on your desktop. Continue reading...
Apple strikes deal with Sony for cloud-music service
SoftwareThree down, one to go. After agreeing terms with major labels EMI and Warner Music, Apple has completed a licensing deal with Sony, Bloomberg reports.
Apple is now a step closer to launching its cloud-based music service, with the largest recording company Universal the last to add to the playlist. The heavily rumoured iCloud will supposedly let you stream your music wherever you are -- and could be announced as soon as June at the World Wide Developers' Conference. Continue reading...
Spotify Free now works with iPhone and Android, even iPods
MP3 PlayersA major update to Spotify allows users to sync their MP3s and playlists from the music-streaming service to iPods, iPhones and Android handsets -- even if you don't pay a subscription.
As of today, you can sync Spotify with your iPod classic, iPod nano and iPod shuffle as well as via the apps for iPhone, iPod touch and Android. You'll still need to pay for Spotify Premium to listen to streamed music, but the software is now an effective competitor for iTunes as a desktop music manager -- and much less of a system hog. Continue reading...
Sonos sound system adds Android and AirPlay abilities
MP3 PlayersSonos, the brilliant multi-room music system for incredibly rich people, has added Android support and upgraded its iPhone and iPad apps to take advantage of multi-tasking and AirPlay streaming.
If you have the Sonos ZonePlayer S5 speaker system you can select music using your Android phone or iPhone, either from your own MP3 collection, from Internet radio or services such as Spotify. It lets you play different music on each S5 -- one in every room in your mansion. Continue reading...
iTunes Festival app wins you tickets to see Paul Simon, Foo Fighters and more
SoftwareFoo Fighters, Duran Duran and Paul Simon are among the first acts announced for this year's iTunes Festival. Apple's month-long musical extravaganza features a free gig every night throughout July, with iPhone and iPad apps to help you win tickets wherever you are.
Kicking things off on 1 July is the man with diamonds on the soles of his shoes, Paul Simon. He's followed by 62 bands in 31 shows, all at the Roundhouse in Kentish Town, London. Continue reading...
Spotify's free music service now limited to 10 hours per month
MP3 PlayersSpotify is restricting its free service to put a brake on your heavy music streaming. It's cutting the maximum monthly listening time in half to 10 hours, and introducing caps on how many times you can play individual songs.
The changes were announced this morning, and come into force six months after users first register for the company's free service. The 10-hour monthly limit is half the 20 hours that you're currently able to listen to on the Spotify Open free service, but it's the song caps that may cause just as much of a stir: you'll only be able to play individual tracks five times ever. Continue reading...
Spotify livestreaming La Roux to your living room this week
SoftwareSpotify is streaming its first live gig this week. The popular music-streaming service will beam La Roux and a cast of electro-wibblers direct to your computer on Tuesday, live from London.
The show features the bibbly-bobbly electro of Delphic, dreamstomp from The Naked and Famous and 80s-angled synthpop from the hideously named Pony Pony Run Run. Continue reading...
iPod powered by the human heart hertz with every heartbeat
MP3 PlayersOur hearts leapt when we heard that scientists are working on a way to power your iPod using power from your own heartbeat. Researchers have developed nanotechnology that draws enough juice from even tiny human movements to power electronic devices -- so you really can listen to your heart...
Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology showed off their nanogenerator at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society. We hear the afterparty at that little get-together was off the chain. Continue reading...
Amazon Cloud Player streams your music to your Android phone for free
MP3 PlayersCloud this, cloud that: everything has a cloud involved these days, from documents to email and now, music too, if Amazon has its way. From today, if you live in the US, you'll be able to access 5GB of free cloud storage from the company to store your favourite music -- or least favourite, if you prefer -- and stream it to your Android phone.
Our first reaction is that free is an excellent price, but 5GB doesn't sound like all that much space for music. Amazon, it seems, agrees, and people buying an MP3 album will be upgraded to 20GB storage for one year. Those not prepared to buy an album will be able to pay $20 (£12.50) per year for the same amount of space. Continue reading...
Steve Jobs is responsible for killing the music business, says Jon Bon Jovi
MP3 PlayersShot through the heart, and you're to blame: Steve Jobs gives music a bad name. That's according to poodle-haired rocker Jon Bon Jovi, who blames the Apple boss personally for "killing the music business".
Describing his average day to The Times (paywall link), 1980s stadium-filler Bon Jovi laments how kids today are missing out on the music-buying experience of his faraway youth. Getting all misty-eyed about shopping for music in one of those old-timey record shops that used to clutter up the place, the Ally McBeal star claims "Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business". Continue reading...
Jonathan Ive rumoured to be returning to UK, potentially leaving Apple
Mobile PhonesJonathan Ive, the Apple designer behind the iPod, iPhone, iPad and MacBook Pro, is rumoured to be planning a return to his native land of the UK. The Sunday Times reports (paywall link) that Ive is yearning for the green, green grass of home, but that he's at "loggerheads" with the Apple board, who don't want him to leave.
The rumour comes via a family friend of the Ives, who told the paper, "Unfortunately he is just too valuable to Apple and they told him in no uncertain terms that if he headed back to England he would not be able to sustain his position with them."
Apple won't want to lose Ive, whose iconic designs are a major factor in Apple's success, but apparently Ive is keen to educate his kids in England, and wants to commute from Blighty to Apple's Cupertino base. That would make our daily horror on the Jubilee line look like working from bed. Continue reading...
Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 blurs media player-tablet line in hands-on video 
If you like big media players and despise spare pocket space, the Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 is the very fellow for you. It's an Android 2.2 device that wants to lend a helping hand in watching all that video you have. And it's massive.
At a size of 78 by 141 by 12mm and flaunting a huge 5-inch screen, we're unsure whether this guy qualifies more as a tablet than a media player, but let's not get bogged down in semantics -- we can all agree it's big. Bigger than it's little brother the Galaxy S WiFi 4.0, certainly. Continue reading...
Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 4.0 video shows the Android phone that's not a phone
When we tried to phone our mothers to tell them we've been behaving in Mobile World Congress, nothing happened. Apparently that's not an error, as despite its looks this Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 4.0 is a media player, not a phone. We find out more in this hands-on video.
If you take the Samsung Galaxy S smart phone and remove the phone bit, you essentially have the Galaxy S WiFi 4.0. This means you can play games, download apps and surf the Web, all without the annoyance of your boss ringing you to ask why you're at home at 11am on a Thursday. It's the same idea as Apple had with the iPod touch. Continue reading...
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