by Mike McGuire | December 7, 2009 | 1 Comment
Apple confirmed on 4 December 2009 that it was purchasing Lala, developer of an online streaming music service that lets consumers sign-in and stream music on-demand with the ability to pay $.10/song to build online libraries of albums and playlists of songs. (Songs are also available to download for $.79 each.) This has all the [...]
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by Mike McGuire | October 30, 2009 | 1 Comment
For many months, nay years me and my ilk have wondered, “What will Google’s play be in online music?” License content and sell it through Google Checkout? Buy a small upstart music service? Well, the answer is no and no. Really, all Google wants to do is just control the search results for music searches. [...]
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by Mike McGuire | October 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
Well, this (from Billboard.com, subscription might be required) is nice news. Government regulators, online service providers and performance rights organizations coming together to “pledge” to try and resolve an important obstacle to greater consumer choice in online services: simplifying the process for legitimate online music sites to license content. Imagine that, a plan to make [...]
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by Mike McGuire | October 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
With one minor turn of iPhone App Store policy dial, Apple is enabling all those developers who built “free” iPhone/iPod Touch applications to try and extract a fee for their work. For smaller publishers, or bands or independent labels or video producers, this would seem like a good thing, yes? Can you say “fremium” app, [...]
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