RIM Announces Blackberry Music
Research In Motion, a.k.a RIM, has published details about their new BBM Music service today.
According to their press release, this new Blackberry Messenger based music service will feature over 45 million recordings from major labels Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI, which will be made available via a cloud service to Blackberry users in Australia, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, the United Kingdom and the United States.
This Omnifone powered service will allow users to access 50 songs for US$4.99 a month but is currently in beta testing, with a limited amount of users.
HP Drops Touchpad & WebOS
In a press release issued today, HP states they will “discontinue operations for webOS devices, specifically the TouchPad and webOS phones“.
The sales of these products were bleak according to numerous media reports.
Galaxie Goes Mobile
Stingray Digital has just released a free application enabling people to listen to the Galaxie music service.
This 48 commercial free music streaming service is primarily distributed on digital cable systems in Canada. But now for $4.99 a month or $9.99 for three months or $39.99 for a year, Apple product users can access these channels. Additional information can be found by clicking the following :
Walmart Closing Music Site In States
Walmart will be closing their American music download site on August 29th. But their Canadian music download site, SongSpark, continues to operate.
Standardized 3D Glasses
Panasonic, Samsung, Sony and XPAND 3D have partnered to adopt a standard when it comes to 3D glasses.
In a joint statement, these companies stated that they “Will Seek Development of Joint Licensing on ‘BLUETOOTH® ENABLED RF’ and ‘IR’ Consumer 3D Active Glasses“.
A standardized version of these glassed are to be released next month whilst the full version, “with the new IR/RF protocols will be made available in 2012, and are targeted to be backward compatible with 2011 3D active TVs.”
Is Your Internet Provider Net Neutral ?
Does your internet provider throttle traffic to and from legitimate sites because of favoritism ? Are they trying to steer you to specific sites by slowing down connections to and from those other sites ?
Internet providers are supposed to be neutral. But of course how does someone find out when they aren’t ? They certainly wont admit to doing it and no technology exists to analyze their transfers. Right ?
Well, researcher Dan Kaminsky has been working on a program called N00ter to do this.
Basically it times transfers to and from sites using different methods and compares the resulting information to find throttling.
Additional information on this new program can be found on Forbes.