Tag archive: download

Google Music users, you can breathe a slight sigh of relief, but don't get too excited. Google has finally enabled a way for you to retrieve the music you upload to its new music storage locker service. The announcement was made on the official Google+ page for Android and verified by a new help article on the Android Market Web site.  Using the Windows or Mac desktop PC client, you can now click one of two options. You can… Read More

If the latest data from mobile analytics firm Flurry is anything to go by, it appears a great deal of us spent Christmas Day shopping – shopping for apps, that is. From its research, Flurry discovered that a record breaking 242 million app downloads took place on Christmas Day, more than double the 108 million daily average downloaded from December 1 to 20. That’s an increase of 125 percent. “Nearly a quarter of a billion downloads… Read More

If you downloaded a copy of Sylvester Stallone action flick the Expendables through BitTorrent, you may soon find yourself in the hot seat of the biggest illegal-downloading case in US history, reports Wired. A federal judge has agreed to a request from the US Copyright Group, which is representing the producers of the Expendables, to subpoena Internet service providers to cough up the identities of everyone who downloaded the 2010 Hollywood… Read More

Microsoft's long-awaited browser update, Internet Explorer 9, is now available for download from BeautyOfTheWeb.com. The announcement of IE9′s official launch came during the Microsoft event at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas, on Monday. Rather than a mere update, IE9 is a complete rebuild from IE8, which many used, but also complained about. In terms of user interface (UI), IE9 looks and feels… Read More

Trying to play Quake III Arena with a controller sounds horrible, but we'll be trying it soon enough anyway. Bethesda Softworks has revealed that on Dec. 15 Quake Arena Arcade will be available for download on Xbox Live Arcade. The rebuilt game, which was first announced more than three years ago, will have 30 classic maps, 12 new arenas for the 360, a new single-player campaign, six game modes, and support for up to 16 players at a time.… Read More

Today, The Nielsen Company released a survey focusing on how Apple iPad owners use their new tablet. The results are largely predictable, but there are a few items of note. iPad owners consume significantly more e-books, TV shows, movies, and magazines than iPhone users, but a bit less radio, news, and music. This is likely due to the size of the device. Music, news, and radio are items typically consumed on the go or in a vehicle, while books,… Read More

So what are the most popular TV shows and movies among those who download illegally? It might not be a question many of us consider, but research company Big Champagne has. It checked the torrents – the places where people download illegally – to find out. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Heroes is the winner, with around 55 million people downloading it this year, followed by Lost, with 51 million illegal downloads. They also… Read More

Because of their sheer size, downloading games isn’t a major part of the download market. It can take hours to download an entire game, which you need to do before you can begin playing. But that is likely to change, thanks to an innovation by a British company, Awomo. "What Awomo does is take the core files used to play the game, which is enough to get you up and running, and then download the rest of the content in the… Read More

Can free music work? It certainly has for Trent Reznor, the man behind Nine Inch Nails. He offered his new album, Ghosts I-IV, in a number of configurations ranging from free to a $300 ultra-deluxe, autographed, limited edition – and all 2,500 copies of that sold out in just three days, crashing his site’s servers, and bring him in $750,000, according to Information Week.   Reznor had 36 tracks in total. Fans could download… Read More

One of the things Apple does vastly better than Microsoft is move their users between operating system versions. With the one exception of a massive installed base bath they took when they moved to OSX, losing about half of their market at the turn of the century (these were folks that probably weren’t buying product anyway), Apple has been well ahead of Microsoft in terms of installed base migrations. To be fair, a lot of… Read More

Real Networks is upping the download ante. It’s just released a new version of its trademark free RealPlayer that will allow users to download video and burn it to CDs and DVDs. The beta is coming this month to the company’s web site. Users will be able to download video that doesn’t have digital rights management (DRM) protection. All you’ll need to do is click the “download this video” button as you watch… Read More

Apple has announced that films from Lionsgate are available for purchase and download today from Apple's iTunes store, with more Lionsgate titles on the way in coming weeks. iTunes launched a video download service with films from the Disney catalog available for purchase; so far, only Paramount has added material to the iTunes lineup, experimenting with offering a small selection of titles for purchase and download. Adding the… Read More

Retail juggernaut Wal-Mart has decided to dip a toe in the baby end of the downloadable movie business, offering customers who buy a copy of Bryan Singer's Superman Returns on DVD the opportunity to download the same movie for use on a PC or portable device. For $1.97, users will be able to download the movie for use on a portable device; for $2.97 users can download it for use on a desktop or notebook computer, and for $3.97, you can… Read More

F.E.A.R. Combat is the new multiplayer element that is now available for a free download at www.joinfear.com . The new add-on includes updates, additional official maps, and new game modes in the download. Users will be able to play against the owners of the retail version of F.E.A.R. as well as those with the new software update. New F.E.A.R. Combat features include: 10 Multiplayer Game Modes 19 Multiplayer Maps 12… Read More

Computer book publisher In Pictures has released 22 books in its In Pictures series for free download through August 1, 2006, under Creative Commons licenses. The ebooks are not protected by DRM: under the terms of the licenses, users can share and distribute the ebooks for free, so long as they don't alter them or charge for distribution. “We could have spent a hundred thousand dollars on advertising thatmost people would… Read More