Free WiFi for MySpace users (until October)

Social.FM shuts down: one less mobile streaming service

Social.FM shuts down: one less mobile streaming service August 4th 2008 Im sad to see Social.FM close its virtual doors. This is the music streaming service formerly known as Mercora that weve covered a time or two. In my testing with the service on different Windows Mobile handsets, I found it to meet my needs as a music subscription service. Sure theres other mobile audio choices out there, but Id rather see more choices than less choices. If I recall, the service was $49 a year, wh
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Free WiFi for MySpace users (until October)

Its a sign of the times, with content becoming the only driver for internet access (after all, if there was nothing there, whod bother visiting), the relationships grow interesting, latest news is WiFi internet service, The Cloud, plans to offer free wireless access to MySpace users. New Media Age reckons MySpace users will be able to [...]
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Kekya Music #34

Kekya Music #34 avec Vidda Vein. Un pur set electro-tech pour sactiver un peu le cerveau en ce magnifique lundi nuageux Vidda Vein
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Decoding Digital Music: Electronica

Electronica spans a wide range of genres, but they all share the same instrumentation - synthesisers, samplers and analogue recording gear. Information about which can be found at www.baudio.net. Electronica has been around a while. The band Kraftwerk achieved chart success in the late 70's and 80's, but it was some of the more obscure tracks out there really brought Electronica to life. The Latin House track "Join Me Brother" by 'Afro Angel' is very nice, very funky and very spanish - I rememb
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Social.fm shuts down

Weve written about Music 2.0 site Social.fm a fair bit in this bulletin in the past - its the company formerly known as Mercora, before it rebranded in September last year. Anyway, its closed, with a stark message on the companys homepage giving users the news, before the site went offline late last week. The company offered a combination of social networking, music discovery and personalised streaming music radio, but besides being outmuscled by Pandora and Last.fm, its likely Social.fm s
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Virgin Radio gives more details on planned subscription service

The UK market is set for a big shake-up in online music this year, with all manner of new services launching with new business models. So, the UK is expected to be one of the first countries to get Nokias Comes With Music service, while broadcaster Sky is preparing for its own subscription service launch in partnership with UMG. Now radio broadcaster Virgin Radio says its trying to sign labels up for its own subscription service, with variable levels. If youre going to pay 5 a month you wo
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