Good news if you like listening to music or podcasts on your iPod in your car and you’re in the UK: Ofcom is legalising the use of FM transmitters that allow iPods and other MP3 players to play through car radios. The use of devices, such as Griffin’s “iTrip”, was…
‘Podcasting: the road ahead’ is a pretty good strapline for PodcastCon UK 2006, the one-day conference on UK podcasting that took place in London on Saturday. One major impression I have is how different this conference was compared to the first UK podcasting conference last year in its clear focus…
If you participated in the launch of crayon in Second Life last Thursday, no doubt you’ll recall the great song that we played in the lead-up to the launch itself and which played after the formal presentations and Q&A session. And if you listened to the For Immediate Release, Managing…
Nostalgia ruled last night as I watched the very last Top of The Pops on BBC2 which we get here on cable TV. The one-hour special included clips from rock legends who were in the shows during the last four decades. The Rolling Stones. The Who. Slade. Blondie. T Rex.…
This weekend, the BBC is broadcasting One Big Weekend, a live rock concert from Dundee, Scotland. Giant screens in various UK locations enable anyone there to enjoy the happenings from Dundee. Not only in the real world, though: The BBC has staked a claim to a virtual tropical island where…
Alex Ostrovsky is one lucky fellow. He was the purchaser and downloader of the billionth song from Apple’s iTunes online store and has won the Apple promotion which ended yesterday. Drool over his prizes: One 20-inch iMac Ten 60Gb iPods (5 black/5 white) One $10,000 iTunes Music Card Total US…
