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.

August 25th, 2011 Comments Off on RIM Announces Blackberry Music Consumer Information, Music Industry, Music Technology Rob McIntyre

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.

August 18th, 2011 Comments Off on HP Drops Touchpad & WebOS Consumer Information, Music Technology Rob McIntyre

Galaxie Goes Mobile

Stingray Digital has just released a free applicationicon 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 :

Galaxie Mobile - The KARAOKE Channel

August 16th, 2011 Comments Off on Galaxie Goes Mobile Consumer Information, Music Industry, Music Technology Rob McIntyre

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.

August 11th, 2011 Comments Off on Walmart Closing Music Site In States Consumer Information, Music Industry, Music Technology Rob McIntyre

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.”

August 10th, 2011 Comments Off on Standardized 3D Glasses Consumer Information, Music Technology Rob McIntyre

Indie Labels Hit By London Riots

A major distribution center operated by Sony has been destroyed in London, England.

The three story building, in which CDs and DVDs from indie labels XL Recordings, 4AD, Beggars, Pias, Domino and Rough Trade were stored, was burned down according to Billboard.

Pias is a major independent music distributor, representing 150 labels. They also distribute DVDs and games.

August 9th, 2011 Comments Off on Indie Labels Hit By London Riots Consumer Information, Music Industry Rob McIntyre