"We Wanted Wii Music's Music To Appeal To Very Broad Audience" [Shigeru Miyamoto] While Wii Music has been getting a tepid reception, at least Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto is excited. Really, really, really excited. So excited that even after working on the game all those months, he's still rushing home to play it. When he's not playing it, he's thinking abo [..]
Google to launch Music Beta cloud music service today at I/O Google is expected to announce its long anticipated entrance into cloud-based music on Tuesday from its Google I/O conference in San Francisco. The New York Times reports that the service will initially be called Music Beta by Google, and it will allow users to store 20,000 songs in a cloud locker for free, which can then be accessed by any PC or Android device. Activity will be synced automatical [..]
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'PlayStation Game Music' service streams PS3 music from phones in Japan
This is so cool. Well, maybe "cool" isn't the right way to describe a service that lets you stream Final Fantasy music from anywhere, but we like the idea. In Japan, Sony just started a "PlayStation Game Music" service that allows subscribers to several mobil [..]
MySpace Settles With Universal Music, Launching "MySpace Music" (NWS) News Corp.'s MySpace (NWS) has settled a long-running copyright lawsuit with Universal Music Group, a deal that gives the social network the go-ahead to launch its own music joint venture. Also on board: Sony-BMG and Warner Music Group [..]
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Nokia makes new music handsets official, expands music services Following last night?s little slip up, Nokia has officially launched three new music handsets, the 5030, 5330 XpressMusic and the 5730 XpressMusic. Preliminary details were a bit shoddy but the basics were all pretty much covered. Now that they?re official however, let?s take a look at what we didn?t know last night:
First up is the [...] [..]
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Warner Music Group to offer music through Nokia phones
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Forget About Buying Music Online -- People Don't Even Want To STEAL Music Music piracy used to be a big deal, but nowadays most pirates don't even bother.
Envisional, which helps companies prevent brand fraud, counterfeiting, and piracy, was recently commissioned by NBC Universal to look at the use of copyr [..]