Ingenious: iTunes Should Be an API. The internets are abuzz once again with news that Apple will release a new version of iTunes today, after Apple senior vice president of internet software and services Eddy Cue dropped a hint to the Wall Street Journal.
What will it be? Actually, that’s not much of a surprise, because Apple lays out its vision pretty clearly with some screenshots. New Library View (focusing on album art and reminding us of We Are Hunted): Expanded view (what happens when you click an album): Recommendations, Song Queuing (iTunes will recommend stuff to buy based on an album, artist, genre, and will allow you to pick songs one by one in order to add them to the play queue more easily): That’s a brief summary of what Apple intends to release later today (or possibly over the next three days, because it has also said the announcement is happening in November). But what should it release? “I wish iTunes were a skinnable, interpret-able service with an API, like Twitter is (for now, anyway),” she writes. In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword. For three decades, Mr.
Phillips had focused on writing software to allow computers to understand human speech. In 2006, he had co-founded a voice recognition company, and eventually executives at Apple, Google and elsewhere proposed partnerships. Mr. Phillips’s technology was even integrated into Siri itself before the digital assistant was absorbed into the . But in 2008, Mr. Mr. Soon after, Apple and Google stopped returning phone calls. When the first lawsuit went to trial last year, Mr. But it was too late. DMR2012_key_facts_and_figures.pdf (application/pdf Object) IFPI 2012 Report: Global Music Revenue Down 3%; Sync, PRO, Digital Income Up. Trade revenue generated by the global recorded music industry in 2011 dropped by 3% to $16.6 billion, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's (IFPI) annual "Recording Industry in Numbers" report, published today (March 26).
Despite the continued year-on-year decline in trade revenue, last year's sales figures represent a significant slowing in the fall of the market, according to IFPI, who for the first time include synchronization revenues in its annual report. IFPI Digital Music Report 2012: The Effectiveness of Anti-Piracy Strategies The inclusion of global sync revenues, which amount to $342 million in 2011, pushed global record music sales well above 2010's published total of $15.9 billion, as stated in IFPI's "Recording Industry in Numbers" 2011 report. If you were to remove synchronization revenues from the equation, global recorded music sales in 2011 totaled $16.3 billion, down 3% from $16.8 billion in 2010. Streaming music revenues up 40% globally in 2012.
15 August 2012Last updated at 21:40 ET Florence and the Machine's Spectrum was the most-streamed song in the UK this week On-demand services like Spotify and We7 will generate £696m for the global music industry in 2012 - a rise of 40%, new research has suggested.
It means streaming music is the fastest-growing sector of the industry, overtaking downloads, which are due to see an increase of 8.5% this year. CDs and vinyl still dominate the industry, accounting for 61% of all music sold worldwide. But sales of physical products dropped by 12% globally, and 30% in the UK.
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