A great day for Apple. Not such a good day for Amazon, Google and the recording industry. Apple has a problem.  Android penetration.  I could mention RIM/BlackBerry, but if you think that company and its devices still count, you’re Canadian.  Android sales have superseded those of iPhones.  How to beat back the tide? Software. Software […]

So I’m hiking in the mountains and it’s long past midnight, since I got hung up downloading the entire Doobie Brothers catalog after hearing a song on Slacker, and I’m listening to Radiolab thinking about virality, how it’s no longer about highfalutin’ gatekeepers telling us what to listen to but a bunch of sneezers, regular […]

Maybe the music business needs to hire Tony Soprano, or his real life Mafia counterpart, to teach it how to conduct business in SECRECY! In case you’ve been out of wireless range, in case you haven’t been in front of a computer, I’m here to tell you the big story online today is Katy Perry’s […]

"Netflix Beats BitTorrent’s Bandwidth" And who says the public doesn’t want subscription services… Who wants some Blockbuster stock? The public doesn’t know what it wants in the future.  It’s the obligation of technologists and content providers to bring them there. Streaming movies on your iPad…it’s a beautiful thing. Maybe music subscription streaming services were too […]