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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Music'
Does SlotMusic Mean the Return of the Album?
September 30th, 2008 by Forest
Tags: Emerging Technology · Music
Top Mobile Trends: Music Community Tools
September 29th, 2008 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 […]
Tags: Music · Top Mobile Trends
The Week in Mobile: Handsets, Auto, Culture, Music, Video
September 12th, 2008 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 […]
Tags: Auto · Culture & Entertainment · Emerging Technology · Handsets · Mobile · Music · TV & Video
Music Discovery Goes Local with Bandsintown
August 27th, 2008 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 […]
Tags: Culture & Entertainment · Emerging Technology · Music · Social Networking · World Wide Web · Youth Trends
Blip.fm and the Continued Rise of Social Radio
August 15th, 2008 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. […]
Tags: Music
