Tag archive: Pandora

MySpace's fall from grace can be measured by two sets of figures: Dropping from 75 million unique visitors a month to fewer than 25 million, and being sold once for more than $500 million and then again for “just” $35 million, all in the space of a few years. New owners Tim and Chris Vanderhook, who took over in June last year, told the New York Times they weren't seeing any new signups at all, a statistic that was… Read More

According to the official Spotify Terms of Service, unlimited free music streaming will disappear at the end of next week for early adopters that started using Spotify in the United States on the launch date. Specifically mentioned in the ToS, it states ” The Spotify Service can be accessed as an ad-supported free-to-the-user service having no monthly cap on listening hours or a cap on number of plays of a unique track during the first 6… Read More

Last week, Spotify rolled out the beta version of its newly revamped Spotify Radio app, which takes direct aim at Pandora Radio. And today, the new Spotify Radio officially rolls out to all users. While many — including yours truly — focused on Spotify's unlimited skips and unlimited stations features as the primary trump cards over Pandora, which limits free users to 12 skips per day, and 100 stations, we've now learned that… Read More

According to a recent study conducted by Nielsen and published on the official company blog, Facebook is the most popular application on Android-powered smartphones besides the Android Market. The social networking app beat out Google applications such as Gmail, Google Search, YouTube and Google Maps. The Facebook application is most popular with people between the ages of 25 to 34 and over 75 percent of people between the ages of 35 to 44 use… Read More

Spotify announced early on Friday that it has revamped its Radio functionality, making it possible for non-paying customers to skip past as many songs as they wish, and add as many stations as they like. This move takes direct aim at Pandora, which allows its free users to skip only six songs per hour, with a total limit of 12 skips per day. The new Spotify Radio is technically still in beta, with the fully finished product set to roll out in… Read More

Spotify has relaunched its radio with new an all-new feature set, gently edging itself into territory currently occupied by the likes of Pandora and Sirius XM. In fact, Spotify's CEO Daniel Ek made it quite clear who the company had in its sights with the new radio, describing it as “kind of like Pandora with unlimited skipping and stations,” while on stage at the LeWeb'11 conference this morning. The new version offers… Read More

According to a recently released study conducted by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, young adults between the ages of 18 to 29 are the most likely to go online just to “have fun or pass the time”. While 81 percent claim to have gone online to have fun on occasion, over half of these young adults claimed to have hopped online for that reason within 24 hours prior to the survey. According to… Read More

Google announced late Wednesday the public release of Google Music, a cloud-based service that allows users to upload up to 20,000 songs to the cloud, giving them access to their library from any PC or Android handset. In addition, the Android Market now carries music. Obviously, Google Music takes direct aim at Apple's iTunes, which has dominated the digital music market since it was released in mid-2001, and has only recently begun to… Read More

When Nokia unveiled its first two Windows Phone 7.5 handsets, the Lumia 710 and Lumia 800, it showed off an interesting music feature called MixRadio, which allows a user to access pre-made music playlists. At least, that's all we thought it did. Today, Nokia has revealed that a streaming service called Echo Nest powers MixRadio, meaning it appears to be a lot more robust than we initially believed. The Lumia 800 will be the first handset… Read More

Following Barnes & Noble's scathing attack on the Kindle Fire during its Nook Tablet unveiling, Amazon has hit back with its own Kindle Fire press release. Today, the online retailer announced its lineup of launch apps for the Kindle Fire. Among them are Netflix, Pandora, and a number of other apps that were thought to be strengths of the Nook Tablet. It looks like those in the market for an e-reader tablet this holiday season (or we… Read More

Barnes & Noble wants you to know that it invented the market for the e-reader tablet and its new tablet is a helluva lot better than the Amazon Kindle Fire. At its Nook Tablet unveiling today, the retailer pounded Amazon's new Kindle to a pulp, arguing that the new Nook Tablet (sequel to the Nook Color, which is the best selling tablet outside the iPad) is better in almost every way. The funny thing is, it's probably true.… Read More

Paying Spotify users in the U.S. can now stream the lauded music service on desktops, mobile devices television sets. Last week Spotify announced a deal with WD's TV media player, and today the streaming music company pushed further into the living room by launching an app for the Boxee Box. The app gives premium Spotify users access to the catalog, playlists and more on the TV screen. However, it might be worthy to note that users… Read More

When the Roku set top box first came out, it offered users only the chance to watch Netflix streaming on their TVs instead of computers. Three years later and Roku now has several different devices offering over 300 media channels for streaming. The latest model to join the family is the Roku LT, which will debut this November for a budget-friendly price of only $50. The Roku LT has built-in wireless, which means quick and easy set up for… Read More

Following in the footsteps of competitors Spotify, MOG and Pandora, on-demand music streaming service Rdio announced today a free plan that allows users to listen to whatever tunes they like from Rdio's 12 million-song catalog, without the pesky presence of advertisements. To sign up, US users need only an email address or a Facebook account, according to the press release. This is a direct shot at Spotify, which reportedly sparked a… Read More

More than a decade ago, Napster came along and decimated the music industry's old way of doing business. The file-sharing service let the proverbial cat out of the bag, and since then, people have been able to get whatever music they want for free. Disgruntled by their relatively thinly padded pockets, the music industry has responded with an endless stream of ludicrous lawsuits that seek absurd amounts in damages from dastardly… Read More