Music
Nokia kills off Ovi mobile brand
May 16, 2011Nokia is to stop using the Ovi brand to sell music, games and mobile apps. The company said it planned to wind up the four-year-old project and would be offering services under the Nokia name in future. In its early days, critics claimed that Ovi was...
Amazon unveils cloud music player
March 29, 2011Amazon has unveiled an online music service that lets users upload songs and play them from a range of devices. The internet retailer launched its Cloud Player in the US, ahead of rivals Apple and Google which are rumoured to be developing similar systems...
Last.fm calls time on free mobile radio service
February 07, 2011Users of online music site Last.fm will have to pay for its mobile phone service starting from next week. Until now, the site has provided its personalised radio for free for mobiles, making money by placing adverts between songs instead. However...
Music publishers plan rights database
January 25, 2011Music publishers are building a song rights database which will make it easier to launch online music services - and fight piracy. The global repertoire database will detail which publisher or song writer owns which rights. That will enable the rights...
Illegal music downloads are 'on the rise'
December 16, 2010Around 7.7m people have illegally downloaded music this year, according to research commissioned by the British record industry's trade association. Its latest report suggests more than 1.2bn tracks were pirated or shared, costing the industry £...
Ventilator patients helped by music says study
December 13, 2010Playing music to hospital patients on ventilators helps them to breathe more easily, findings show. Experts at the Cochrane Library say music could be better than drugs to calm patients during forced ventilation. In studies involving more than 20...
Apple's music site gets tweeting
November 12, 2010Apple's social music site Ping has partnered with popular social networking site Twitter as a way to let users discover more music. The move comes after Apple failed to strike a deal with the world's largest social network Facebook. Ping, which works...
Apple's Ping has 1 million users in 48 hours!
September 04, 2010By Stela Roman In just a couple of days, Apple's Ping music social network has managed to gain 1 million users! It is a great result for a social network. On the other hand it is not so surprising because more than 160 million people have iTunes...
Apple launches social network for music called Ping
September 02, 2010Apple has launched a social network as part of the latest version of its iTunes software. Ping, as it is known, allows users to build networks of friends and professional musicians, in a similar way to services such as Twitter. The service also builds...
US court to try first case of copyright claims over music downloads on file-sharing networks
October 03, 2007The largest U.S. record companies will bring a suit against illegal downloads to court for the first time Tuesday. Jennifer Pariser, head of litigation and antipiracy at Sony BMG, portrayed the federal copyright trial as a fight for survival. ...