Mar 11
In his home town of Hanoi, Vietnam, Flappy Bird developer Dong Nguyen has this week suggested that he may – possibly – bring the app back from the dead. While … Continue reading
Mar 09
Building up the excitement over the upcoming Tuesday event, Apple has just added the official iTunes Festival channel to Apple TV. The channel will whet viewers’ appetites with information on … Continue reading
Mar 04
One of the more annoying things about Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Amazon’s television streaming libraries is the vast difference between the selection available. It would be almost impossible to get a thorough idea of who has the better library without searching for hundreds of TV shows on each service and comparing them manually. So we did just that.
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Mar 02
Beyonce is an artist that holds some serious star power. Back in 2013, the singer decided to test the limits of her popularity when she released her new album without any fanfare or announcements. Safe to say at that time, that was pretty much all anyone could talk about on social media.
This kind of breaks tradition where artists usually drops hints, or keeps reminding their fans that their album is about to be released. Turns out Beyonce did not have anything to worry about as the album broke the iTunes record where it was released as an exclusive, and now Apple wants to recreate that effect with other artists as well.
According to a report from Billboard, Apple’s VP of the iTunes Store, Robert Kondrk, had been pressuring label executives every since January to follow in the steps of Beyonce and release more albums that would exclusive to iTunes. (more…)
Apple Reportedly Pressuring Music Labels For Exclusive Releases original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Feb 28
This week Apple has quietly announced an add-on to the Apple TV models out in stores right this minute. With the addition of a $25 iTunes card for the Apple … Continue reading
Feb 27
This article was written on July 07, 2007 by CyberNet.
If you’re on Facebook, you’ve at least heard of iLike. If you’re not on Facebook and you haven’t heard of iLike, it’s a social music discovery site that has recently exploded into popularity ever since the launch of their Facebook Application. Whether or not you’re on Facebook, iLike stands out in the social music crowd, and it’s worth checking out.
On Facebook
iLike launched last October, and they were actually doing well for themselves with around 3 million users. They saw a huge boom in popularity ever since their Facebook App launched, and now they are registering 300,000 new users every single day!
The CEO of iLike, Ali Partovi has said that “iLike is on track to becoming the dominant music service for the Facebook community. It’s something we never would have contemplated just a month ago.” It’s now the second most popular app on Facebook.
Both the iLike site and the Facebook app are nearly identical. You can learn where your favorite artists are going on tour and see who else is attending. They also allow you to search and add streaming music and music videos to your Facebook profile.
Features
- Connect iTunes – Use iTunes? Now you can connect your music library to you friends, see related music based upon your tastes, and download free music from new artists via the Sidebar for iTunes. If you don’t have iTunes, you can still discover music through friends – you’ll take a quiz so that your tastes can be matched appropriately.
- Get your friends to sign-up – This is a social music service, thus friends are important. Once you get your friends to sign-up, your friends can recommend music for you, and you can see which songs that your friends are listening to. You can also find other people who you don’t know that like the same kind of music as you.
- Compare tastes with others – Want to know how your tastes in music compare with your friends? No problem!
- Free MP3’s from new artists – As mentioned, you can download free music from new artists based upon your tastes, and yes it is legal! It’s not music you would hear on the radio, but it is personalized picks to match your tastes.
Share your tastes with the iLike Widget
Sharing music is simple with the iLike widget. You can add the widget to any web page, even MySpace. It will flip through “artists iLike,” “just played songs,” “most played songs,” and “songs iLike.”
Play the iLIke Challenge
When I first added the iLike application on Facebook, I quickly got addicted to the iLike challenge. All you do is listen to a track, and then you have to name the artist or song. You can do this either on Facebook, or the iLike website.
Wrapping it up
iLike has quickly become a social music service that stands out in the crowd! Hopefully their recent explosion in popularity only means that there will be great things to come from them in the future.
Copyright © 2014 CyberNetNews.com
Feb 19
Apple has brought its iTunes Festival to the US for the first time, announcing that it will be streaming concerts across five nights at SXSW 2014 in March. Having run … Continue reading
Feb 16
Have a secret or two you want to get off your chest without telling the world or revealing your identity in the process? There’s an app for that.
It’s called Secret, and it lets people post random thoughts, deep dark secrets, and everything in between on a neat, user-friendly platform. It does all this without displaying any names or personal information. What makes it different from other apps is the fact that only people in your contacts (who also have the app installed) can see your posts.
Your secrets are delivered anonymously to the people in your Contacts who are on Secret. They can view, love and comment on your post. When friends love your secret, it will be shared to their friends. If they love the post, it can reach even further. When your secret travels beyond two degrees, it will be marked with your general location, like “California”. People beyond two degrees will be able to love your post or comments, but won’t be able to add comments to the conversation.
Make sure to leave out any details that may help people uncover your identity. Secret can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store for free.
[via Laughing Squid]
Feb 11
Apple has recently announced the availability of iTunes Radio to folks who are living Down Under (that would be Australia for the geographically challenged), a region where gamers recently gained access to Pokemon Bank and Pokemon Transporter as well. Just what is iTunes Radio? It happens to be a free Internet radio service that features more than 100 stations which has an incredible catalog of music that hails from the iTunes Store, where it will also be merged with features that only iTunes is capable of delivering. Should you tune into iTunes Radio on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC or Apple TV, you will be able to gain access to stations that have been inspired by the music that you already listen to, Featured Stations curated by Apple and genre-focused stations which have been specially personalized just for you.
iTunes Radio Introduced In Australia original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Feb 10
iTunes Radio goes live in Australia
Posted in: Today's ChiliApple has launched iTunes Radio in Australia, the first country outside of the US to get access to the streaming music service. Available across iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC, … Continue reading
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