We live in very dramatic times indeed. Over the last fifteen years we have felt and seen the seismic impact of the internet. And if you are a digital ancient like me, then you will no doubt still remember the good old days when a picture on a web page would have taken an eternal [...]
Executives at Spotify’s headquarters must have let out a deep sigh of relief when Apple gave them the green light allowing their app to be launched on the iPhone app shop. Many doubted that Apple would shoot itself in the foot by allowing a rival music app that could potentially poach its itunes customer base [...]
Every now and then, I get this over powering desire to shoot-up with some mp3 tracks. I blame the compulsion on the gloomy credit crunch atmosphere that has beseiged the entire world with its dark apocalyptic clouds of insecurity. Everywhere I turn, music addicts are within arms reach – trancing out on some hypnotic unknowable tune or being pulverised into submission by pulsating drum beats that [...]
Many good ideas have come and gone, but Spotify, the new kid on the music block, is creating a noisy buzz of excitement within the mp3 downloading community. Why? Well, Spotify - created by Mr Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon in 2006 - is offering music lovers the mind blowing choice of millions of song tracks they can listen to [...]
Read: Spotify to take online jukebox to the States – guardian.co.uk The way we listen to music has been revolutionised in the last few years by the digital era which has given us music files that can be downloaded in seconds by anyone with a computer. Apple’s relationship with the music industry has been a bitter-sweet one; while [...]
Like besotted lovers, we exchange vows at the altar of the cash till, vowing “till death do us part”. If you were to randomly ask any group of young people what their favourite brands are, there’s a strong probability that among those mentioned would be Cocacola, Pepsi, Apple, McDonald’s and Nike. And there’s good reason for that too – what these hyper-brands all have in [...]
