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Summary Box: MOG, Rdio enter mobile music field
(AP)
AP - JOIN THE CLUB: Music blog site MOG and startup Rdio are offering ways to stream millions of songs to mobile devices for about $10 a month.
Summary Box: Streaming your music over Web
(AP)
AP - HOW IT WORKS: Once you install mSpot's application on your computer, you can select what songs in your collection you want to store on the service's remote servers. Then you can listen through your Web browser from any computer, or from an Android phone.
Griffin Intros Evolve iPod Speakers
Griffin Technology today announced the unveiling of its new lineup of powered speaker systems. Evolve is a speaker system with a flat charging base that holds your iPod in a Universal Dock.
The Strangest iPod Accessory Ever?
Thanko has introduced a bizarre iPod box speaker that may be the strangest iPoc accessory ever.
Bing Leapfrogs Google with Entertainment Features
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - While Google is working on an online music service that will reportedly debut later this year, Microsoft is getting out of the gate right now with new entertainment features. The new features include streaming music from its Bing search engine.
Reports: Google Working on Paid News, Music Services
(PC World)
PC World - Google is developing services to let consumers pay for access to news articles and songs through individual purchases and subscriptions, according to various news reports.
Two New iPod Games Announced
Electronic Arts today announced the availability of two new games for the fifth generation iPod – EA Sudoku and Royal Solitaire.
SpeckTone Retro Stereo Speaker System for iPod
The SpeckTone Retro is one of the few iPod accessories that has caught our eyes recently. The fifties look of the all-wood speaker cabinet is finished with a high-gloss lacquered piano finish, and is a surprisingly nice complement to the modern look of iPods.
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Free Music Downloads: The Slips Celebrate Forthcoming Single With Free Mixtapes Even though the days of creating analog mixtapes have long gone, this hasn't stopped electro band, The Slips, from releasing some great sounding 'digital' mixtapes for free. The London-based trio are celebrating the release of their upcoming single, 4 Elements to Make Good Music, and are offering up, not one, but two excellently hand-crafted mixtape volumes for free download. This generous collection of digital music remixes will give you a taster of The Slips hard-edged electro style that pumps out an array of unique electronic sounds, effects, and vocoded vocals.
Wi-Fi-Only Nook Introduced; Nook 3G Gets Price Drop It's official. After much rumor and speculation, Barnes & Noble has gone ahead and taken a page from Apple's playbook by introducing a Wi-Fi-only version of its popular Nook eReader. The Wi-Fi Nook is available for order today online for $149, which is a lot closer to the $100 sweet spot some analysts predict for widespread eReader adoption. Meanwhile, the Nook 3G gets a price drop to $199.
Free Music Downloads This Week: Human Life's Summer 2010 Mix Seeing that we are now in the season of summer music releases and outdoor festivals, it's a fitting treat this week to feature a band who have just released a mammoth summer mix -- so big in fact that it comes in two parts! Electro Pop / Disco House trio Human Life are a Los Angeles band who are celebrating the launch of their new EP, In It Together (view official music video) by releasing their Summer 2010 Mix which contains over two hours of non-stop dance music. To keep you going all day, Human Life have created separate daytime and nighttime mixes.
Free Album Download: Catacomb Kid's Deep Sleep Album This week we're featuring Seattle-based electronic/hip hop artist, Catacomb Kid (aka Harrison Mills). His latest album, Deep Sleep is an ambient journey full of great sounding samples and electronic beats; this free offering can be streamed or downloaded via Bandcamp.
To get your free album download, simply go to Catacomb Kid's Deep Sleep album page and click the download button to choose your preferred audio format. Related Articles:
iPad Hacker Arrested On, Um, Non-Hacking-Related Charges Well, that was fast. A member of the security group that discovered a breach involving AT&T's network was arrested Tuesday — but not for the act you're likely thinking about. Instead, 24-year-old Andrew Auernheimer was arrested on drug charges after police found an assortment of illicit substances in his Arkansas home. No word yet on what caused police to search his home but the Web's denizens are already tilting their heads away from this figurative car crash and looking toward the direction of AT&T.
Forecast: Kindle Price Cut to Put Squeeze on Amazon Profit Margins Amazon's aggressive response to Barnes & Noble's equally aggressive price drop on its Nook eReader may help the Kindle maker retain its prized market share. But it's already caused one firm to revise its forecast downward for Amazon stock.
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