London-based social networking/music website Last.fm has announced that it will be using its connections with major and independent record labels to bring video recommendations to the site this week. This new offering enables users to create their own personalised video “channels” filtered according to their musical tastes – much like the way that users can […]

Warner Music has announced that it is cutting 400 jobs in response to quarterly losses that were larger than expected. The world’s fourth-largest music company reported a fiscal second-quarter net loss of $27 million, or 19 cents a share, compared with a loss of $7 million, or 5 cents a share, a year earlier. “The […]

iLounge is reporting that Microsoft will be releasing a new Zune on Monday: We‚Äôre hearing that Microsoft‚Äôs holding an event in Redmond on Monday to preview/announce a new Zune – most likely the flash-based one the company‚Äôs been hinting at for a while. No other details yet; if there‚Äôs something worth telling you about on […]

Could Apple’s upcoming iPhone eclipse the marketshare of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile phones by 2008? Possibly, according to Markitecture, who recently surveyed 1,300 people to find out. 77% of respondents were at least slightly familiar with the iPhone. Among those familiar with the product, 41% had a good impression of the iPhone based on everything they […]

Rock legend Peter Gabriel, with partners Steve Purdham and John Taysom, have introduced a new free music supported by personalized advertising messages. The We7 service works by dynamically ‘grafting’ ads onto the front of music tracks and albums based on a consumer’s demographics such as location, age, gender and could even be extended to preferences. […]

A federal court ruled yesterday that music performance and royalty fees don’t apply to music downloads and movie downloads that feature music. The U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York affirmed a lower court ruling that found that digital music and media downloads aren‚Äôt public performances. Because they aren’t public performances, they […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs indicated Wednesday that he’s unlikely to give in to calls from the music industry to add a subscription-based model to iTunes. “Never say never, but customers don’t seem to be interested in it,” Jobs told Reuters in an interview after Apple reported blow-out quarterly results. “The subscription model has failed so […]

Nearly 30 years after it aired on television, episodes of WKRP, a television show about the antics of a Cincinatti radio station, are being made available on DVD. Unfortunately for fans, the series, which prominently featured Dr. Johnny Fever (played by Howard Hesseman) playing popular music of the day, has been “butchered”, removing the music […]

Virtual Music has introduced DeliverASong.com, a website that lets you send digital songs to friends and loved ones over the Internet. Buying a song costs $.99. DeliverASong.com sends an email letting the recipient know of the gift and providing a specially encoded web address to download their song(s) in MP3 format, which is compatible with […]

Apple’s soon-to-be-launched iPhone will be irrelevant to business users because it is a “closed device” and does not support Microsoft Office, according to a senior executive at Microsoft. “It’s a great music phone, and I’m sure it will be fantastic and have an interesting user interface,” Microsoft’s Asia-Pacific head of smartphone strategy Chris Sorenson told […]