Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion (RIM) has finally launched the BlackBerry Messenger Music app in the United States, Canada and Australia. The company made the official announcement in a blog post, saying that the service’s launch in other countries will follow shortly. RIM has unveiled the on-the-go music service last August to directly compete with...
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The Wall Street Journal has reported that Google will be launching its new MP3 store sometime in the next few weeks. The new service’s launch is said to be scheduled by the company, and the record labels are starting to spread the news to their partners. The Google MP3 Store is being worked on by the company to tie in with the Google+ social network. Users of the...
Search engine giant Google is now in deep negotiations with record labels to expand the company’s music service and open a new MP3 store that would compete with Amazon and Apple. According to the New York Times, Google is eager to launch the new music store in a few weeks. “It would most likely be connected to Google’s existing cloud service, Music Beta,...
Facebook is reported to be undergoing a massive makeover that will bring mobile advances and music services, along with an update in video sharing to its service. These features are expected to be announced by the company on Thursday at the F8 developers conference. The social network company will be introducing the new “ticker” stream, alongside the site’s...
Music technology company TASCAM has recently unveiled its new mic / instrument interface for iOS devices called the TASCAM iXZ. The TASCAM iXZ is an audio interface for your iOS devices, such as the iPhone, iPod TOuch or iPad, that lets you record, sample and monitor a live audio feed. The TASCAM iXZ audio interface has a single channel balanced XLR / line input that allows...
Now that the Google Music service has been released for a couple of months now, we still have to see how we can get it to our iOS smartphones. Now, users can access the Google Music service through the Safari web browser, and not via an official iOS app. The Google’s Music Beta has been available as an Android app since its unveiling at the I/O this year, and iOS...
Spotify, one of the world’s leading music streaming service, announced recently a new developer API called libspotify, or more commonly known as the Spotify Embedded Player. The iOS exclusive API will allow developers to easily embed the Spotify player into their apps. This encourages the development of third-party apps using their music streaming service. Previous...
Making music using computers have been possible for quite a while now. Artists, musicians, producers, and even ‘normal’ people have been making music in their homes using mid to high end software for the last ten years or so. Now, researchers at the University of Hampton have developed a way to make music using tangible objects and computers. “Grab a...
Native Instruments has announced the introduction of its new Traktor Kontrol S2 Digital DJ System to their line of musical devices. The new Traktor Kontrol S2’s design is based on the company’s Kontrol S4 hardware. The Kontrol S2 is based on the compact version of the S4 and provides a 2+1 set up with sample decks. It also has comprehensive mixing and effects...
When the iPad was first released, people thought that it will be perfect for playing game applications and doing office work. Musicians rejoiced and said that it will be their next portable studio. The only problem with the iPad is it doesn’t have ideal ways to connect musical instruments to it other than the iPad Camera Connection Kit. Alesis has now addressed the...