Digital Music Distributor The Orchard Goes Private (Again)
The Orchard, which distributes digital music and video to the likes of Apple and Amazon's online stores, is going off the public market. The New York-based company is getting bought out by its parent, private equity shop Dimensional Associates, and stops trading tomorrow.
One Way to Save the Music Industry
Given the persistence of digital music piracy, a new subscription-creation model borrowed from online gaming could aid ailing record labels
New Pro Audio Training Video: Digital Producer 3 - Know It All
Digital Music Doctor announces the release of a new video training course, Digital Producer - Know It All! This course contains over 5 hours of interactive videos which cover all major aspects of creating music from digital sources: loops, synthesizers, and samplers. It encompasses a wide variety of musical genres, everything from making beats to creating orchestral tracks, and presents a number ...
WEB/TECH: Ditto Music Responds to Tunecore Ceo Jeff Price
Yesterday, Hypebot broke an interview with TuneCore CEO Jeff Price. In it, he said it was disingenuous for companies, like Ditto Music and others, to claim 24-hour live times to iTunes, because there is no way to guarantee that; it depends on too many factors that exist outside of the control of digital music distributors. Also, Price want even as far to say that making such promises, ones they ...
The future of concert ticketing
An experiment by Topspin and the Pixies for a couple of U.K. concerts demonstrates that in the future many acts won't need ticket brokers or promoters.
Revolutionary Intel chip uses light to send data
The fingernail-sized research prototype already can move 100 hours of digital music or 45 million tweets in a second from one device to another.
Synaptics Reports Record Results for Fiscal Fourth Quarter
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Synaptics (Nasdaq: SYNA), a leading developer of human interface solutions for mobile computing, communications, and entertainment devices, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended June 30, 2010. Net revenue of $145.8 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010 was a record, an increase of 26% over $115.3 ...
Hackable home media system features touchscreen controller
Berlin-based Raumfeld is shipping a Linux-based, UPnP and AV/DLNA-ready multi-room audio system claimed to be "hacker/DIY friendly."
The iPad is making me iBlind: why E Ink eBook readers still rock
iBackgroundI love to read. If you frequent our site and have read our many ebook reader reviews, you know this. After getting an advanced degree in English, I dragged around the English major's albatross for years: thousands of books. ...
Groves graduate and pop star Mike Posner heads to the D for the Warped Tour
For those just peeking in on the pop charts, Mike Posner might seem like the unlikely star of summer 2010 -- the young guy with the big hit from out of nowhere. But Posner and his top 10 smash, the instantly infectious "Cooler Than Me," come with a distinct and storied metro Detroit pedigree.
