Hola and thanks for reading.
FYI I’ve decided to switch up my online identity and therefore, this blog is dying … to be reborn in a remix mashup of all my blogs together at last in one spot. All new posts will live at Sparkplug 9.
Thanks so much for reading, and please join the party at […]

So, Universal wants to invent a new model for music sales:

Universal Music Group, the world’s biggest record label, is looking to mobile hardware makers to foot the bill for a free music subscription service for buyers of a certain mobile phone or music player, The Telegraph reported Saturday.

Think. What does a model where you buy […]

Apple’s scheduled a Steptember 5th special event: “the beat goes on.”
It’s obviously about iPods. My guess is that Apple’s now ready to take the next step. More to the point, the marketplace is finally ready for Apple to release the next evolution in iPod: mobile computing.
You already see it in iPhone. And we know that […]

I want the new iMac.
I want the new iPhoto.
I want the new iMovie.
I want the new GarageBand.
I want the new Keynote.
I want the new Numbers.
I’m not really impressed with iWeb.
Not too sure about .Mac yet.
I don’t really have a need for Pages - Word is good.
Best new iPhoto feature
Better organization of photos. Events is just […]

Yesterday, the news broke that Bebo is partnering with iTunes and offering songs via Apple’s store to its 30 million members. Today, Yahoo! Japan is partnering with iTunes and offering songs via Apple’s store to its members.
Interesting.
This is a new phase in iTunes, that builds on the iTunes University concept to help make iTunes ubiquitous.
Tags: […]

Ringtones rank among the most annoying of modern inconveniences.
Unfortunately, most people apparently need to hear that it is not actually cool to have the Star Wars theme echoing tinnily but noisily from your pocket. And the Hallelujah chorus really was not conceived as a notification that Bob is caling to inquire whether or not your […]

Ars Technica branches out from their standard hardware reviews and shows how Weird Al Yankovic finally got his first #1 single: White and Nerdy.
In three words:

YouTube
MySpace
iTunes

Everyone hates it when their sandbox is overturned, but the music industry has to realize the game has changed and the rules are different.

Indeed, it seems as if the Internet’s […]

I just watched Ze Frank’s latest show on branding. After which was an ad for a music contest, which, mildly interested in, I clicked.
Only to see this fairly ugly sign-up page exhorting me to take the “Workshop Live Contest” (why? who are you? what for?) with this prominently displayed:

Well, stupid is as stupid does, right?
Tags: […]

The rumors had been around for some time: PowerSchool was on the auction block. Now it’s official.
But why? Why did Apple sell PowerSchool? It appears that the division was not profitable enough for Apple, and there were always rumors of issues around the development of new versions of PowerSchool.
But I think there are two […]

Three days ago the inaptly named Creative Technology sued Apple for patent infringement, saying that organizing and navigating music by artists, albums, genre, etc., was covered by U.S. Patent 6,928,433.
Now the news is out that Apple is suing Creative, claiming that Creative infringes on not one, but four patented Apple technologies.
Creative’s patent
Creative’s patent seems, on […]