Faster Forward Archive: Music
iPod Nano Adds FM, Video; Zune Tunes Into HD Radio
Thanks to Apple's new iPod nano, I know that walking from my porch steps to the top of the escalator at my Metro stop involves 949 steps and burns 41 calories. And thanks to Microsoft's new Zune HD, I've listened to some old '80s alt-rock songs that I never thought...
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September 18, 2009; 9:57 AM ET |
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HD Radio To Go, Or Just Going, Going, Gone?
Have you, unlike what seems to be the majority of electronics customers, been pining for a cheaper way to try out HD Radio? A new portable model on sale now in Best Buy stores brings the entry-level cost for HD Radio to its lowest point ever, $49.99. But somehow, I...
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Rob Pegoraro
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July 13, 2009; 12:17 PM ET |
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Web Radio Royalties Resolved*
Our long national Web-radio nightmare is over--sort of, at least for the next five years or so. Yesterday, representatives of the recording and Web-radio industries announced an agreement on a lower set of royalties that Webcasters would pay to musicians and record labels for the use of their recordings. Instead...
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July 8, 2009; 8:07 AM ET |
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Going Mobile With Web Radio
If you think you've read bits of today's column on Web radio, before, you have. Here's the list of ingredients, as they appeared in my blog: * Interactive Web-radio services do a really good job of exposing people to new music. (Notice how many of the comments start with a...
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May 29, 2009; 10:15 AM ET |
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Microsoft Reveals Next Zune Player -- Months In Advance
Late yesterday, Microsoft announced the next move in its long-running, thus-far-unsuccessful campaign to chip away at the iPod's dominance of the media-player market. The new Zune HD will ship this fall at a price not yet revealed and will share some key features with Apple's iPod Touch (assuming that Apple...
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May 27, 2009; 12:51 PM ET |
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Music-Industry Chatter Has Echoes For the News Business
SAN FRANCISCO -- I spent Monday talking shop with various tech types about the state of the music industry, but I gained a little insight about the newspaper business along the way. The occasion was a daylong conference on the intersection of technology and music, the SanFran MusicTech Summit, which...
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May 20, 2009; 4:15 PM ET |
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