Neowin News Feed for: Tunes

AIM Tunes for AIM 6.x

Christopher Vendemio — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:13:48 +0000

AIM Tunes is a plugin for AOL's AIM 6.x instant messaging client. With AIM tunes, you can visit x.aim.com/music and proceed to browse and play music from the libraries of any of your fellow AIM... Read more...

Wal-Mart: DRM-Free Tunes for 94 Cents

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:59:34 +0000

Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer and seller of recorded music, has started offering songs free of copy protection today at 94 cents per track. These songs include ones by the Rolling Stones, Coldplay and Maroon... Read more...

Lycos.com Tunes in to Net TV

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:29:29 +0000

Lycos, Inc. has become the latest web outfit to jump on the internet TV bandwagon after announcing it has teamed up with US-based Permission TV to offer video content to the 25 million or so... Read more...

Gateway Tunes Out TVs

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:00:24 +0000

The Irvine, Calif., computer maker, which at one time claimed to be tops among sellers of plasma-screen TVs in the United States, has quietly phased out its plasma-screen and liquid crystal display TV sets in... Read more...

MSN Music To Offer Grammy Tunes - Free

Tom Warren — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 19:45:46 +0000

MSN Music announced today that they're planning to offer free downloads of some songs in the running for Grammy awards this year. Every day from Feb. 8 through Feb. 12, in the United... Read more...

Comcast tunes into Microsoft TV software

Thu, 20 May 2004 19:14:41 +0000

Comcast Cable, one of the largest cable operators in the United States, on Thursday signed a deal to funnel Microsoft's latest TV software to millions of set-top boxes. The agreement will enable... Read more...

Microsoft tunes up the Orchestra

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 17 May 2004 08:43:59 +0000

AWARE THAT many people are beginning to give up hope of ever seeing a new version of Windows, Microsoft is continuing to send its spinsters waxing lyrical about what it will contain when it arrives.... Read more...

Apple tunes up QuickTime for wireless

Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:45:27 +0000

Apple Computer released a new version of its QuickTime multimedia software on Thursday, adding support for the creation, delivery and playback of video over wireless networks. Known as QuickTime 6.5, the upgrade... Read more...

Buy.com Hopes to Get your Notes for Tunes

Tue, 22 Jul 2003 21:56:51 +0000

In the wake of Apple's success with digital music downloads, hopeful competitors are stumbling over themselves to get a product out that can emulate and, presumably, surpass the iTunes Music Store. First... Read more...

Madrid testing legal loophole for online tunes

Tue, 20 May 2003 14:42:08 +0000

Thanks to Lewis Benge for mailing us in with the below story. A new music download service, launched on Tuesday in Madrid, tests a legal loophole in Spanish copyright law that appears... Read more...

Coder Finds New Way to Swap Tunes

Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:01:29 +0000

Like Daniel entering the lions' den, programmer Jim Speth is about to release some new music-sharing software that could land him in a world of legal pain. Unlike Daniel, Speth doesn't have... Read more...

Music labels' latest anti-piracy trick: free tunes for a day!

Wed, 02 Oct 2002 14:15:57 +0000

In a fight to win back fans from the "gray zone" of online song-swapping services, the music industry is borrowing a trick from its nemeses: free music downloads. Unfortunatly, the program will be open... Read more...

Microsoft tunes in to TV programming

Mon, 06 May 2002 18:50:14 +0000

Microsoft may have muted its interactive television ambitions, but with a new program guide it is trying to stay tuned to what viewers want to see on the small screen. Rival Liberate Technologies, meanwhile,... Read more...