Flo Rida The Ringtone King
- May
- 19
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Becoming the first artist to have the no. 1 selling digital track of all-time with his club pounding single, “Low,” which reached over 3.2 million sold, is nothing to downplay. Thanks to its success, the Carol City-raised rapper Flo Rida has taken hold of the music industry and has no intention of letting go.
Although just [...]
Live Concerts Internet Are Music Industrys Future
- May
- 3
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Live concerts and music on the internet will be key to the music business of the future, feels Ralph Christoph, an electronics music expert from Germany who is scouting for talent in India.
Christoph, founder of the German music festival called “Cologne on Pop” or c/o pop, popularly known as the ‘Woodstock of Europe’, said the [...]
PODCASTFunny Way to Launch a Product
- April
- 25
But Wait, There’s More
The fun didn’t end there. The site kept listing different physical addresses for the business, going from a suburban neighborhood in Miami to a more industrial building. Then Psystar stopped taking credit card orders, saying its provider, PowerPay, had “dropped the ball.” It moved to PayPal instead. PowerPay countered that in fact [...]
The nonstop sound of music lives in Austin
- April
- 8
AUSTIN, Texas - Chances are, if you dig music, you’ve been to Austin.
This is, after all, the “Live Music Capital of the World,” and it’s
an apt slogan: Austin has more live music venues per capita than
anywhere in the U.S.
There’s a ton of music here, and it’s hardly limited to Texas
two-step honky-tonk country.
There’s rock ‘n’ [...]
Jay-Z strikes a $150 million music deal
- April
- 8
The deal with the concert giant Live Nation reflects a seismic shift in the music industry in which stars now make far more money from playing live and selling merchandise than they do from selling their recordings.
Madonna and U2 have made similar deals with Live Nation but they were not as comprehensive.
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The nonstop sound of music lives in Austin
- April
- 8
AUSTIN, Texas - Chances are, if you dig music, you’ve been to Austin.
This is, after all, the “Live Music Capital of the World,” and it’s
an apt slogan: Austin has more live music venues per capita than
anywhere in the U.S.
There’s a ton of music here, and it’s hardly limited to Texas
two-step honky-tonk country.
There’s rock ‘n’ roll, [...]
Phoning In the Future of Television
- April
- 3
No TV? What Now?
However, even if Gilder was right, and television is toast, it’s still hard to figure out what exactly comes after it. The future, naturally, lies in the eye of the beholder. Ask a conventional TV executive to predict the future, and they will probably put you to sleep with indigestible jargon about [...]
Songkick website guides music lovers to real-world concerts
- March
- 21
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British Internet startup Songkick launched Wednesday with a vow to inspire digital-age music lovers to reclaim the joy of hearing bands play live in real-world venues.The London-based website debuts with a free online service that matches people’s tastes in music with the schedules of bands performing in the US or UK.
“It’s all about changing the [...]
Small-is-good strategy works for indie label
- March
- 6
When Brian Aubert and his bandmates were looking to sign with a record label in 2005, they opted to stay local. Even though bigger labels were calling from outside their native Southern California, the Silversun Pickups signed with a little Silver Lake imprint called Dangerbird Records.
Their friends told them it would be the biggest mistake [...]
Security Wonks Warn of DRAM Decryption Danger
- February
- 23
DRAM Storage
The DRAM stores data on a leaky capacitor, which is stored as a zero or one, Doug Finke, director of product marketing at Santa Ana, Calif.-based STEC, a memory design and manufacturing company, told TechNewsWorld. The electronic charge, though, must be continually refreshed so the data isn’t lost during the leaking process.
While a variety [...]
