spodradio, a radio and podcast hub for mobiles, today announced $10 million of Series B funding from Benchmark Capital Europe and Baytech Venture Capital. The funds will be used to accelerate spodradio‚Äôs expansion into international markets and help develop new services. spodradio enables the mobile phone to be used as a music device with “a […]

One more reason YouTube as you know it is dead: YouTube cut deals with the major music labels shortly before closing their deal with Google, giving the music industry ownership stakes in YouTube in exchange for video and music licensing deals. YouTube quietly cut deals with three of the four major RIAA member companies – […]

Listening to iPods at unsafe volumes for as little as 5 minutes a day can cause hearing loss. Researchers Brian Fligor and Cory Portnuff estimate that a typical person could safely listen to an iPod for 4.6 hours at 70 percent of full volume using the supplied earphones without greatly increasing the risk of hearing […]

It looks like the “wild west” days of video sharing may be over. YouTube as you know it is dead. The company plans to remove all videos that infringe on music industry copyrights, and is working with music companies to promote ad-supported distribution of music videos. Now the music industry is going after other video […]

Legislation aimed at legalizing copying your music to iPods and other portable media players appears to be going nowhere. According to reports, four months of work has resulted in a 29-page draft bill that doesn’t fix the issue. “If the law is enacted in its current form, we will have to call it ‘the Little […]

Kiptronic, an ad marketplace for the podcasting industry, and IODA, the Independent Online Distribution Alliance, have announced a partnership to help promote artists and record labels via podcasts. Kiptronic will provide a customized version of the Kiptronic Podcast Marketplace for use by IODA and its alliance of more than 2,700 independent record labels, covering over […]

Qloud (pronounced ‚Äúcloud‚Äù) today launched a public beta of its search service and iTunes plug-in. Qloud uses media player plug-ins to provide the listener data that powers Qloud‚Äôs search. In the Qloud service, users can then search through this information, and can do so in multiple ways: music preference (how much it is played, how […]

ViewSonic today launched its droolworthy ViewDock VX1945wm and VX2245wm LCD displays with iPod dock integration, letting users view video podcasts, movie downloads and other iPod video content in widescreen. “The ViewDock displays modernize the desktop by letting users view iPod content 65 times larger than on their iPod screens,” according to the company. The 19-inch […]

More evidence that YouTube as you know it is dead: YouTube and Universal Music Group (UMG) have announced an agreement that promises to remove videos from the site that use Universal music without authorization, and replace them with ad-supported content. Under the agreement, UMG will let YouTube users incorporate music from UMG‚Äôs recorded music catalog […]

Great American Group, a leading retail liquidation firm, announced today that it will be liquidating Tower Records and all of the company‚Äôs assets. The sale, which also includes various leases and properties, was given final approval today by a Federal bankruptcy judge. Liquidated will be all of the merchandise and equipment at Tower Records‚Äô 89 […]