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Entries Tagged as 'Music'

Does SlotMusic Mean the Return of the Album?

by Forest

Remember when MiniDiscs were kind of popular? Then people decided that tiny CDs weren’t that cool after all. It was a faraway time, when Walkman still meant CD player and cars still came with cassette players.
Well, tiny music may be making a comeback - this time on microSD cards. As the Times reported, SanDisk is […]

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Tags: Emerging Technology · Music

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Top Mobile Trends: Music Community Tools

by Allison

Ask young people what the are passionate about, and music will come up across the board. It’s a universal language, the sort of “water cooler topic” that the weather is for older people. A song can speak for them at a time when they can’t speak for themselves. But this doesn’t mean they are […]

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Tags: Music · Top Mobile Trends

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The Week in Mobile: Handsets, Auto, Culture, Music, Video

by NGT

HANDSETS
Touchscreens getting big for Asian market [IntoMobile]
As mentioned in yesterday’s post, Japan is really getting into touchscreens. This is backed up ina new report from ABI: “Because it’s difficult to represent even a fraction of the common Asian characters on a QWERTY-style keyboard, touch screen devices on which characters can be written with a stylus […]

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Tags: Auto · Culture & Entertainment · Emerging Technology · Handsets · Mobile · Music · TV & Video

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Music Discovery Goes Local with Bandsintown

by Forest

Bandsintown is a new social networking site that helps you find, well, bands in town - your town.
The idea is this: You create a profile, noting your city and favorite bands (last.fm users can also access their account to pull musical taste). Once in, you can view shows by date range, price range and distance […]

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Tags: Culture & Entertainment · Emerging Technology · Music · Social Networking · World Wide Web · Youth Trends

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Blip.fm and the Continued Rise of Social Radio

by Forest

What do you get when you mix a social network, Internet radio, a mixtape and a little ego? You get Blip.fm and the combination is delicious.com - or should be.
Blip.fm (not to be confused with our fav video site, Blip.tv) gives you two options - you can be on the stage or in the rave. […]

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Tags: Music

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