17th March 2012 Archive
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Eight... AirPlay speakers
Product round-up Tunes from the wireless
Apple’s AirPlay wireless streaming protocol can be used to play music from an iPod touch, iPhone, iPad, or from iTunes on a Mac or PC, directly to a compatible speaker. AirPlay uses Wi-Fi rather than Bluetooth and so audio is not compressed in order to send it to a speaker. The good news is that some of the biggest names in hi- …
reghardware 17 Mar 08:00
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Sad but true: Napster '99 still smokes Spotify 2012
SXSW Parker and Fanning reminisce
The Napster of 13 years ago was vastly superior to any legal music service available today, including Spotify, says Sean Parker, a mover and shaker in both companies. And he's right. Napster co-founders Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning were speaking at the SXSW Music Festival and Conference this week. Parker is an investor in …
Music and Media 17 Mar 11:28
