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iLingual’s Virtual Phrasebook App Brings Us Closer to the ‘Babel Fish’

Douglas Adams’s fictitious invention, the Babel fish organism, from his best-selling novel The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, fits into the ear so that the listener can understand speakers in any language. Emirates airlines’ iLingual iPhone app doesn’ ...

From ELIOT VAN BUSKIRK, Wired,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Douglas Adams

Playlists Could Be Free Music’s Killer App

Music is too expensive to be free and too free to be expensive on a song-by-song basis, because on-demand music licensing rates are becoming too high for advertising to cover — as shown once again by imeem’s recent sale to MySpace at a heavy discount. ...

From ELIOT VAN BUSKIRK, Wired,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: AdSense,  Google Inc.,  Muxtape,  RIAA,  David Porter

News Corp, Microsoft Seek To Pressure Google into Paying for News

News Corp has rattled its saber in Google’s direction for months, as chairman Rupert Murdoch accused the company of “stealing stories” by posting links and short article excerpts on its search engine. Now, he appears ready to strike, by pulling his ...

From ELIOT VAN BUSKIRK, Wired,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation,  News Corporation Limited,  Rupert Murdoch,  Wall Street Journal

YouTube Blocks Non-Partner Device Syabas as Allegations Fly

Syabas's Popcorn Hour devices like this C-200 can no longer play YouTube videos, due to the absence of a deal between Syabas and Google/YouTube. YouTube is set to become a regular feature of televisions, but only through its partners’ hardware. So far ...

From ELIOT VAN BUSKIRK, Wired,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Sony,  TiVo Inc.,  Nintendo,  Netgear

Listen to 140-Character Songs Geeks Are Trading on Twitter

Each song on this Twitter-able album is represented by 140 characters of code at most Anyone with half a brain can paste a song onto Twitter by pasting in the URL for a song. For some, that isn’t enough — they figured out how to paste entire songs ...

From ELIOT VAN BUSKIRK, Wired,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Google’s Chrome OS Netbook Video Shows Lala as Embedded Music Service

Google’s new playable music search feature was just a hint at the future of Google’s musical ambitions, if its new concept demonstration video of next year’s Chrome OS netbooks — featuring an embedded Lala music playback app — is any indication. About ...

From ELIOT VAN BUSKIRK, Wired,  19 Nov 2009

Ad-Supported Music Contracts Again, as MySpace Buys Imeem

News Corp’s MySpace purchased streaming music competitor imeem for a bargain price reported to be in the ballpark of $8 to $10 million, but the lion’s share of the purchase price isn’t for the service itself — it’s for key staff to guide MySpace’s ...

From ELIOT VAN BUSKIRK, Epicenter | Wired Blog,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: iLike,  News Corporation Limited,  Dalton,  Facebook Inc.,  Google Inc.

Verizon to AT&T: Can You Sue Me Now?

AT&T may have the iPhone, but Verizon claims its network offers five times the 3G coverage – a stinging accusation considering that even the best phone in the world can be hobbled by a slow or non-existent data connection. It’s no coincidence, of ...

From ELIOT VAN BUSKIRK, Wired,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: AT&T Inc.,  Jason Schwartzman

Music: Too Expensive to Be Free, Too Free to Be Expensive

MySpace, rumored to be on the verge of purchasing the free music streaming site imeem, is struggling to keep up with its own payments to music copyright holders, according to a top News Corp (NWSA) executive — a problem that has plagued every other ...

From ELIOT VAN BUSKIRK, Voices | All Things Digital,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: News Corporation Limited,  Dow Jones,  Wall Street Journal

Anil Dash Crowdsources Social Networks to Inform Public Policy

Six Apart co-founder Anil Dash plans to reinvent the way the government listens to citizens – not through wiretapping, but by soliciting expertise on scientific matters through the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Expert Labs ...

From ELIOT VAN BUSKIRK, Epicenter | Wired Blog,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Anil Dash,  Six Apart,  White House,  Movable Type,  TypePad

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