Tag archive: Urge

Hacktivist group Anonymous wants you to care about what they care about. So, to help spread word of their causes of choice — everything from protests of San Francisco's public transportation system to political unrest in Syria — the loose-knit group has released a Twitter tool that allows users to “hijack” trending topics, and tweet messages within those topics, as explained in a statement by an Anonymous spokesperson.… Read More

Over six months after the companies announced their partnership, MTV and Microsoft today unveiled URGE, the companies' joint online music and video subscription service. URGE works a lot like other Microsoft-based subscription services, with a song catalog of about 2 million tracks from all the major distributors plus a bunch of smaller labels: tracks can be purchased outright for a 99 cent fee which should look familiar to digital… Read More

Microsoft and Viacom unit MTV have announced they plan to develop a joint digital music service called Urge for 2006. The companies have revealed few details regarding the new service's pricing, availability, or technical implementation, save that the companies expect the service to feature more than 2 million tracks for download from both major music distributors and independent labels, as well as original content and material… Read More