The last few years has seen a huge change in how people listen to music with more and more people turning to services like Spotify, Deezer, Napster, and We7 to stream music alongside purchasing it outright through iTunes, Amazon, or others. The streaming services give everyone millions of songs available at their fingertips for just [...]
Rdio Launches In The UK And France To Compete With Spotify
Posted on 03 May 2012
Rdio has spent the better part of three months hammering out deals with record labels licensing agencies to let them open their service in Europe, and today the music streaming services has launched in the UK and France. Rdio has had the launch advantage in the US, beating Spotify to the country by over a [...]
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YouTube Music Share Ruling Another Blow for Online Freedom?
Posted on 28 April 2012
We’re mostly all aware by now of the USA government’s intention to introduce two bills that could change the way we share information over the internet. The SOPA and PIPA bills, if initiated, would severely limit what we can and can’t do over the internet. Under the proposed SOPA and PIPA bills, the government would [...]
Six Years Of Music Blogging – What’s Changed?
Posted on 20 April 2012
TechFruit may have only been going for a year, but I have been writing and editing our sister site, new music blog The Blue Walrus, for a full six years as of this week, so I thought now would be a good time to look back and see what has changed over that time. Social [...]
Spotify Adds “Play Button” Widget, Misunderstands “Embed”
Posted on 11 April 2012
Music streaming powerhouse and media darling Spotify announced a new tool today, the embeddable “Play Button” – allowing bloggers, publishers, and anyone with a website to add a small widget to their site and users can stream whole albums and singles from their favourite artists right there. Except they can’t. SoundCloud has risen to prominence [...]
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HTC Dropping Beats Headphones
Posted on 09 April 2012
HTC has been making a lot of noise about the inclusion of Beats by Dre headphones with some of their more music-focused smartphones over the last year, and the benefits those headphones and associated technology bring to the table. But now it appears that the company will no longer be bundling the headphones with their [...]
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Baidu Reveals Cloud Smartphone
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