| Changing the face of music industry with MP3 software | | Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 10:36:51 AM by Rose Martins | Mp3 software is changing the face of the music industry. Artists that are virtually unknown are now able to share their music with the world.  Mp3 software allows the artists to record their music cheaply and post it on the net for downloading. Some of the music is downloadable for free; other music is available at a small price.
The free Mp3 track is usually offered as an incentive to the user to purchase additional tracks. The catalogue of music available for download is of huge proportions. The downloaded music can be burned to CD from PC, or downloaded to your Palm, Mp3 player or other portable media device.
According to John Lenihan, director of public relations for MP3.com, one of the largest repositories of MP3 downloads, "The success of consumers embracing this technology is a good indication as to where the future is moving. Just as the eight-track tape came and went, eventually music is going to go to the Net.
The coolest thing about MP3 is that it empowers the artist and the consumer. It returns the power of song ownership back to the artist and allows the consumer to make his own choice."
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| | | Review: Sony NW-S706 mp3 player | | Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 1:15:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | Readers are reminded that the opinions expressed, and the results published in connection with reviews and/or laboratory test reports carried out on computing systems and/or related items are confined to, and representative of, only those goods supplied and should not be construed as a recommendation to purchase. .... | |
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| | | SanDisk Announces the Sansa Connect Wireless Internet MP3 Player | | Posted Sunday, January 14, 2007 3:22:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) the second largest seller of MP3 players in the United States, today announced the Sansa Connect, a Wi-Fi enabled MP3 player that lets consumers enjoy and recommend music from almost anywhere1. The Sansa Connect un-tethers consumers from their PCs allowing them to connect to music and online photos through any open wireless "hot spot" Internet connection. The announcement was made at CES, where SanDisk is exhibiting in South Hall 4, 36206 in the Las Vegas Convention Center through January 11. Available on retail shelves in the United States in late March, the new Sansa Connect will boast innovative Internet capabilities designed to keep music aficionados connected to a wide range of new music via subscription services and streaming Internet radio1 with no PC required.... | |
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| | | VONaLink TeamRecord Software Released | | Posted Sunday, November 19, 2006 1:05:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | Arcosoft has announced the release of VONaLink TeamRecord. TeamRecord works with any VoIP phone system based on the open SIP standard, such as Asterisk or Vonage, to centrally record all phone calls for a company workgroup. Call recording benefits a company by allowing business transactions over the phone to be verified and disputes resolved. With traditional phone systems, calls are recorded with either analog equipment or expensive, proprietary products from the phone company. With the latest VoIP systems built on open, standard protocols, calls can be recorded by monitoring network packets. TeamRecord unobtrusively accesses voice data using the port mirroring capability of a network switch. No additional software needs to be installed at each workstation. The call is recorded as a stereo WAV or MP3.... | |
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| | | Review: Genius MP3-DJ 520 music player | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:34:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | Listening to music on the move can be very solitary so the Genius MP3-DJ 520 has an extra headphone socket so that two people can listen at once. Even better, there is an extra set of headphones supplied as well. The media is small and very light and is not going to weigh down any pockets. There is also a microphone built into the front. The DJ 520 is compatible with Windows Media Player so there is no need for any extra software. It is also charged using a standard mini USB plug and one is supplied in the box. Both of these make it very easy to get started. And the FM tuner means that there is always something different to listen to. Sadly the menu system of the 1GB DJ 520 is far from intuitive and it is not always clear how to make selection. This is made worse because the DJ 520 is quite slow to respond to the buttons.... | |
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| | | SKY MobileMedia Announces Pre-integrated SKY-MAP Software Solutions on Texas Instruments' ``LoCosto'' and OMAP-Vox(TM) | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 7:20:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | BEIJING, BUSINESS WIRE -- SKY MobileMedia, Inc., a leading provider of application software solutions for the wireless industry, today announced pre-integration of the SKY-MAP(TM) Mobile Applications Software Platform with Texas Instruments' "LoCosto" single chip platform and OMAP-Vox product family. These complete hardware plus software solutions are both on display at the TI China Wireless Summit today at the China World Hotel in Beijing. As a member of Texas Instruments' application suite ecosystem, SKY provides complete and customizable applications solutions that scale to fit the market segments targeted by each of TI's wireless chipset platforms. "With software accounting for 75 percent or more of handset R&D and integration costs, handset OEMs are increasingly looking for pre-integrated software and hardware solutions to simplify handset development," said Naser Partovi, CEO of SKY MobileMedia.... | |
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| | | Small Creative Zen V + Ipod audio video contender | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:10:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | BACK in the warm summer of 2006 we heard that Creative labs finished the design and tweaking of its upcoming Zen refresh MP3 players. It got the drives with Oled display this time, much brighter and much nicer, smaller at the same time and with a significantly better battery life. The first impression when you unpack the small device is that it is freaking small. It might not be the thinnest on market but it sure is the smallest one. It measures 43.5 x 67.5 x 15.9mm and weighs incredibly only 43.5 grams. It comes in a few colours options, the 4 GB and 8 GB version comes in a black casing with blue buttons, the 2 GB comes in black or white but with green keys while the 1 GB has orange buttons and comes in white or black. The real beauty of the device is the Scratch resistant OLED screen we use it for a few days and you can still not see any scratches, but it this can take time.... | |
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| | | New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 77 | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 3:22:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | Looking for the latest new media tools, web 2.0 services or for just-released new independent publishing software? Searching for how to distribute content online? Needing to communicate more effectively without having a big budget? Here is Robin Good's weekly collection of the best new media tools our editors team has run into this week. Check these new media latest entries let us know what you think of them. Photo credit: Tomasz Sowinski Mobile IM and blogging service by Windows lets you access to your virtual world from your cellphone Photo slideshow creator lets you add music, effects and captions to your pictures Online desktop that looks like a local computer lets you access all your personal data within any browsers Online Instant messenger enables you to access to several IM networks from one web-based location Search engine records what people are searching for to rank the quality of sites Online file converter allows you to upload and convert all the most popular files without any software File hosting service lets you store all file formats and share them with others too Animated gif creator lets you create animated gifs with your pictures and also with photos on Flickr Free stock photos directory provides users with images released under a free content license Search engine enables users to retrieve information from several sources in a single click .... | |
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| | | Audio News for October 31, 2006 | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:27:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | Group Founded to Fight for Hi-Def Surround Against the MP3 Hordes - Dr. Mark Waldrep, CEO of Aix Records, is fighting mad about the marketing hype and falsehoods about digital data reduction being promulgated by manufacturers, music companies and audio services. He has founded a nonprofit organization called The High Definition Surround Music Association [HDSMA.org] to create, promote, educate and distribute true hi-def surround music via workshops, giveaways, web tutorials and branding. Hearing the claim that the new terrestrial HD Radio technology ushered in the High Definition age of radio got Waldrep started on his remedy. Actually the "HD" in HD Radio doesn't stand for hi-def but instead for Hybrid Digital - yet the public would naturally connect it with HDTV. HD radio truthfully delivers audio quality less than half that of already-compromised average MP3 files of 128 kbps - often as low as 64 or even 32 kbps.... | |
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| | | Software provides full text search. | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:19:05 AM by Blog57 Team | | With indexing speeds from 15-30 Gb/hr, SearchInform 3.0 offers full text search and search for documents similar in content, as well as phrase search with consideration for stemming and thesaurus. Program supports over 60 text formats, Outlook and TheBat electronic messages, mp3 and avi tags, and logs of MSN and ICQ instant messaging programs. With request caching system, software only has to process 20% of all queries, since all other results are available in cache. .... | |
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| | | New Auction Inspector Software Finds Niche Markets in eBay for Sellers | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:27:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | Auction Inspector representative, Pat Davenport, says Auction Inspector addresses a strong need in the eBay seller community. "Like any other retail business, eBay is subject to the laws of supply and demand. Many sellers are beginning to shy away from highly saturated markets, such as those for traditional goods like DVDs, cellphones and mp3 players. They are instead trying to find niches where the competition is less fierce," says Davenport. Auction Inspector identifies potentially profitable niches by examining eBays "Want It Now" section, where shoppers post requests for hard-to-find products. Auction Inspector searches for frequently mentioned items and compares the number of requests with the number of responses from sellers. Items which are frequently requested but receive few replies from sellers are deemed to have high "potential" as a niche product.... | |
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