Content delivery network Akamai Technologies unveiled today a new service that lets you interactively view real-time statistics on Internet traffic. In addition to letting you view Latency, Traffic and Attacks for the Internet, the service provides net usage indexes for Music, News and Retail. The information is captured by Akamai’s content delivery network. Akamai has […]

Lala.com has introduced a new web-based service that lets you store your iTunes music library online for free. The service lets you play your music from anywhere, share it with anyone and purchase music for your iPod using a Web-based interface. “As avid iPod fans we wanted to create a service that blends the convenience […]

Melodeo today announced nuTsie, a new mobile music service that lets you get your entire iTunes library on your mobile phone. nuTsie lets users access their iTunes music on a wide variety of popular phones. nuTsie is built on Melodeo’s mobile streaming technology, which means users don’t have to sync their phone to a computer, […]

Security technology firm McAfee today published an update its State of Search Engine Safety report. McAfee estimates that United States web survers make approximately 276 million monthly searches that lead to Web sites that could compromise their online safety. Surprisingly, digital music sites are twice as likely as adult sites to pose security risks to […]

Buzz about Apple’s introduction of iTunes Plus, which offers DRM-free music tracks for $1.29 each, has turned into concern for some. Posts at Ars Technica and TUAW have revealed that Apple is embedding personal information, such as your name and email address, in¬†music files (including the DRM-free ones) purchased at iTunes. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, […]

Apple today launched iTunes Plus, offering DRM-free music tracks with 256 kbps AAC encoding, for audio quality almost as good as the original recordings, for just $1.29 per song. iTunes Plus is launching with EMI’s digital catalog of recordings, including singles and albums from Coldplay, The Rolling Stones, Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, Joss Stone, Pink […]

PayPlay.FM announced today that it is offering its 1,300,000-track catalog in unprotected MP3 format at the price of 88 cents per song. The tracks are 192kpbs VBR encoded, offering higher quality sound reproduction. The move continues PayPlay’s strategy for uniform support of Mac and UNIX platforms, iPod, Zune and other portable players incompatible with Windows […]

Ann Summers, a UK sex toy site, is getting a massive load of free publicity courtesy of the lawyers at Apple. According to reports,¬† Apple lawyers claim that Ann Summers’ advertising for its iGasm iPod sex toy, right, is a blatant rip-off of Apple’s iPod advertising. Apple has sent a cease and desist letter, warning […]

XM users appear to be experiencing a massive outage. According to reports, one of the XM’s satellites is down, and its repeaters are down due to a “software update.” An XM Spokesman has provided this statement regarding the issue: “We are experiencing a temporary degraded performance issue, which has affected some of our customers. We […]

The UK Podcasters Association, a non-profit organization promoting podcasting, has announced that it has come to an agreement with AIM, the UK-based Association of Independent Music, which allows members preferential access to AIM’s podcast license. The AIM podcast license covers over 30,000 tracks licensed by the UK independent music industry and includes labels such as […]