ITunes Music Update: Think Social, Not Streaming

Odds are very low that you’ll see a new cloud-based streaming music service from Apple next week. But a Facebook-friendly one is a different proposition.

UPDATED: EMusic Gets a New CEO, Promises Cloud-Based Locker Service For 2011

Digital veteran Adam Klein takes over for owner Danny Stein. A new site overhaul, scheduled for the end of the year, is supposed to help the subscription service compete against Apple and Amazon on one end, and Rhapsody, Mog and Rdio on the other. Much more interesting: The service says it will have a cloud-based “locker” streaming service up and running by the end of the year, with a full rollout in 2011.

EMusic’s New Boss Is the Same as the Old Boss

Shades of Dick Cheney! Subscription music service eMusic’s last CEO took off last fall. Chairman Danny Stein, who ran the company years ago, ran a search for a replacement and decided that the best man for the job was…Danny Stein.
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Making iTunes Music Purchases Available to Multiple Computers

Walt answers questions about iTunes copy-protection rules and iPods, making a printer available to multiple computers wirelessly, and surfing the Web from a car.

Thinking Outside the Pod

Apple’s iPod music players are wildly popular, and they’re paired with a very good online music service, the iTunes Store. But not everyone loves the famous gadget. Here’s a guide to doing digital music outside the Apple hegemony. Music services The iTunes Store is the digital equivalent of a music shop. You buy individual songs [...]

Digital Music: A Primer

More than 50 million Apple iPods, and lots of competing digital music players, have been sold by now. But many folks are still confused over how legal digital music works. So here’s a quick-and-dirty guide to the digital music world.

New Ways to Store and View Digital Pictures

Walt tests Kodak’s EasyShare Picture Viewer and Apple’s iPod Camera Connector — two pocket-sized gadgets that let users show off digital photos without using a computer.