Rock Band Comes to iPhone & iPod Touch

October 8, 2009 by · Comments Off
Filed under: Announcements & Events, Digital Media, Mobile Phones, P2P technology, Movies, MP3, Digital Audio & Games 

According to a recent post from Mobile Crunch the hugely successful music video game Rock Band will extend its popularity to the iPhone and iPod Touch, including premium content and 4-way multiplayer through Bluetooth.

The news got spread at the CTIA convention where at a Rock Band stand, participants could see the splash screen showed below which revealed the game’s future ‘route’.

The screen displays little info but it clearly says "Rock Band - iPhone/iPod Touch

The screen displays little info but it clearly says "Rock Band - iPhone/iPod Touch"

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eBookstore Reaches the iPhone

July 24, 2009 by · Comments Off
Filed under: Announcements & Events, Digital Media, Mobile Phones, P2P technology, Downloads, Tops 
eBookstore claimed to be the largest of its kind

eBookstore claimed to be the largest of its kind

At the beginning of the week, 700,000 titles became available as part of the new eBookstore launched by Barnes & Noble. The same company has also launched the Barnes & Noble eReader for popular smartphones among which the iPhone and iPod Touch and will be the exclusive eBookstore for the Plastic Logic eReader scheduled for 2010.

Through the new service people will have access to public domain books available as free downloads via Google Books. Barnes & Noble say they hope to offer over one million titles within a year. The company brags about being the largest eBookstore in the world at the moment.

The Barnes & Noble eReader is currently one of the most downloaded apps for iPhone although some might still prefer the Stanza reader. As a strong point – you can download the same book multiple times; as a downsize – it doesn’t load as fast as you’d probably expect into the reader. However, it allows reading although the loading is not complete.

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Top Downloads – Fandango’s iPhone App Downloaded More Than 1 Million Times in 3 Months

June 23, 2009 by · Comments Off
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top-downloads-fandangos-iphone-app-downloaded-more-than-1-million-times-in-3-monthsFandango’s iPhone App proved to be quite a hit according to some figures published recently. Reportedly, the app focusing on movie showtimes, ticketing and information on the Apple iPhone and iPod touch has scored more than 1.3 million downloads since it was officialy launched this year, on March 13th.

Since then Fandango entered the Top 25 Most Popular Free Entertainment Applications in Apple’s App Store never to leave it again. Now it has climbed to No. 1 and it seems to want to stick there for a while. In an overall top of  including all free iPhone and iPod touch apps, Fandango has reached as high as #8.

The app’s popularity even went to the next level as it’s becoming a platform through which more and more marketers are trying to reach tech-savvy entertainment passionates.

“We are thrilled to work with Apple to make moviegoing easy and convenient for people on the go,” said Rick Butler, Chief Operating Officer of Fandango. “With so many highly anticipated films out this summer, we expect downloads to continue at a very brisk pace.”

About Fandango

One of the Web’s top movie and entertainment destinations, Fandango sells tickets to more than 16,000 screens. Fandango entertains and informs consumers with reviews, commentary and trailers, and offers the ability to quickly select a film, plan where and when to see it, and conveniently buy tickets in advance. Fandango is available at www.fandango.com, 1-800-FANDANGO and via your wireless mobile device at mobile.fandango.com. Fandango is a unit of Comcast Interactive Media.

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App Store Hits One Billion Downloads

April 28, 2009 by · Comments Off
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app-store-hits-one-billion-downloadsApple has announced that it has passed the incredible milestone of 1 billion downloads of its applications from what has become the largest applications store in the world. It took only nine months for the App Store to hit that number.

“The revolutionary App Store has been a phenomenal hit with iPhone and iPod touch users around the world, and we’d like to thank our customers and developers for helping us achieve the astonishing milestone of one billion apps downloaded,” points out Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “In nine months, the App Store has completely revolutionized the mobile industry and this is only the beginning.”

Currently the revolutionary digital store includes over 35,000 applications available to consumers in 77 countries. This makes possible for developers to connect to tens of millions of iPhone™ and iPod touch users worldwide.

Developers are already expecting this summer the iPhone OS 3.0 software update which will offer them more than 1,000 new developer APIs enabling In-App Purchases, P2P (Peer-to-Peer) connections, App control of accessories, and Push Notifications. Apart from that, the iPhone OS 3.0 release will include over 100 customer features among which cut, copy & paste; Spotlight™ search; landscape keyboard and view for all key iPhone apps; MMS support; and expanded parental controls for apps, TV shows, and films from the App Store.

Stay (i)Tuned.

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Artists Stand up for High-fidelity Audio

May 21, 2008 by · Comments Off
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As the digital era with its mighty ruler – the Mp3 are swallowing everything around leaving no room for other contenders, artists are coming together to have their say in this and save high-fidelity audio formats. Adhering to “la resistance” are artists like Neil Young, Trent Reznor (NIN), John Mellencamp and T Bone Burnett.

Burnett (photo right) has done more than oppose the death of high fidelity formats – he founded Code, with which he intends to set standards that would guarantee top quality sound. According to Rolling Stone, the first album to be released by Code is John Mellencamp’s Life, Death, Love and Freedom (produced by Burnett), and is due on July 15th. The album will be offered in a special package containing a standard CD and an audio-only DVD with superior sound quality compatible with any standard DVD player. Additionally, the package will also “throw in” iPod-playable AAC files ripped straight from the masters, which according to Burnett offers better quality sound.

Further on, Burnett seems confident about his venture and not at all “intimidated” in his initiative by the ever growing popularity of iPods. Even with past negative examples of better-than CD formats such as SACD failing, the experienced producer and musician relies on the impact the superior quality of sound will ultimately have on the public – “Nobody knew they wanted high-definition television until they saw it,” and calls on fellow artists to give up being passive about it “We need musicians to stand up for pure sound. It’s unthinkable that we’re still hung up on this 25-year-old technology of CDs

Blu-ray discs, on the other hand, are preferred by Young (a well-known opposer to digital sound) as they have a larger storage space than even DVDs: “CD quality is very low-resolution, just a step above MP3s” (…) “That was a crime, to make that a standard for so many years” said the artist.

You can check for more on this issue here – “The Death of High Fidelity: In the Age of MP3s, Sound Quality Is Worse Than Ever”

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