For those of you who aren’t familiar, Midomi.com is a website that can listen to a song you hum into a microphone and guess what it is. Now they have launched a native iPhone application that uses their database of songs so you can find out the name of that song stuck in your head no matter where you are just by humming into your iPhone. Gizmodo gave it a try humming a little-known tune by Rick Astley into it and it guessed the app after just 48 seconds. You can download the app in the App Store.
Written by Edward Kirk on July 10th, 2008 with no comments.
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According to MacRumors, Apple has released the pre-release version of iTunes 7.7 to developers earlier tonight, and the Read Me in the installer hints that they may be offering a free iPhone/iPod touch application for using the device as a remote control for iTunes. As of yet, no such application had been officially announced.
Written by Edward Kirk on June 26th, 2008 with no comments.
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If you’re having a bad case of the musical blahs and Instinctiv Shuffle isn’t spicing things up enough for you, you might want to consider uSirius. It’s a new native application available in Installer.app that lets you listen to Sirius Satellite Radio on your phone over an EDGE or Wi-Fi (and soon 3G). You can try the app for three days for free before you have to register, and it works smoothly over either internet connection. You can find it in Installer.app.
[via Gizmodo]
Written by Edward Kirk on June 26th, 2008 with no comments.
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Once hailed as a savior of the music industry’s physical distribution model, Starbucks will abandon the sale of CDs and iTunes gift cards in its thousands of outlets by September, according to a report released today by Silicon Valley Insider. The company will continue to offer free Wi-fi access to Apple’s online music store and may continue to try to sell entertainment online, but the dream of record company executives who saw Starbucks at the vanguard of a new class of unconventional sales outlets that could keep the CD alive in an age of digital downloads is now dead.
The company reported its first annual profit decline in eight years and saw half a dozen senior executives depart from its entertainment unit this year, forcing the Seattle-based retailer to look for ways to restart growth in its core business of selling $4 cups of coffee.
Written by Lonnie Lazar on June 25th, 2008 with no comments.
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Following on the heels of competitor BMW’s optional iPod dock, Steve Jobs’ preferred German automaker Mercedes Benz announced a custom cradle for the iPhone available as an option on nine classes of its vehicles. The interface will allow seamless integration between the iPhone’s music and telephone functions and the vehicle’s systems, Mercedes says.
Placed in the Mercedes’ onboard cradle, the iPhone’s music and phone functions can be controlled with the help of multifunction steering wheel controls, while the vehicle’s display indicates phone status, music functions, etc. The cradle features automatic recharging as well as increased reception with the help of the vehicle’s antenna.
Written by Lonnie Lazar on June 20th, 2008 with no comments.
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