What Do At&t’s New Bandwidth Caps Mean for ‘iTunes in the Cloud?’

Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by refe.

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Apple and At&t are like the couple where the beautiful girl hooks up with the creepy, overweight older guy. Sure he makes a decent sugar daddy, but none of the girl’s friends can quite understand how she can still stomach the guy all these years later. In yet another move that has put their customers [...]

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Music and Tech Recap – April 2010 Edition

Posted on 10. May, 2010 by Gabriel Nijmeh.

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There certainly was a lot of news and announcements in April even though it seemed to me that things got off to a slow start. Ultimately it turned into a Spring awakening as the month rolled on that it became a challenge to keep up with the avalanche of news, stories and announcements. Some [...]

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What Lala Did Right – And What Apple Should Learn from It

Posted on 04. May, 2010 by refe.

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I discovered Lala only a couple of months ago, and despite it’s flaws it quickly became my go-to service for discovering and sharing music. I was excited to hear that Apple had acquired Lala because I figured that with Apple behind the scenes the music I had purchased in the cloud would be more secure. [...]

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The Barriers of Music Consumption: Past and Present

Posted on 12. Apr, 2010 by refe.

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By: Kyle Bylin of Hypebot.com Edited by: Refe Tuma There was a time when songs were songs. When there were the albums that you owned and those that you did not. When there was a distinct difference between the music that you liked and the artists that you didn’t care for at all. There was a [...]

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Review: Does Spotify Live Up to the Hype?

Posted on 11. Oct, 2009 by refe.

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The internet fairies were good to me last week, dropping two exciting little goodies into my inbox. The first was to Spotify, which has been available in Europe for a while now but has yet to be released here in the States. The second was the much anticipated communications and collaboration platform Google Wave. I [...]

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The Future of Product Innovations in Music

Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by refe.

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During the reign of the CD there seemed to be no need to innovate. For decades that one product brought in plenty of revenue to keep the industry rich. If it’s not broken why fix it? Meanwhile, we understand now that new technologies were quietly transforming the markets. At some point the right time to [...]