LiveNetMedia.com - Internet http://www.livenetmedia.com/ en-us NEW YORK (Billboard) - Performing rights organization ASCAP launched a free app for Apple's portable devices Wednesday, allowing its member songwriters and publishers to access their catalog, performance and royalty information.
Reported by Reuters Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:10:36 +0000 DAMASCUS (Reuters) - The mother of a 19-year-old female Syrian blogger who was arrested last year has appealed to President Bashar al-Assad for her release, saying her daughter does not understand anything about politics.
Reported by Reuters Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:10:36 +0000 Selecting the right wine for every occasion is a form of art most of us only pretend to understand. That's why Lion Nathan Wine Group, a wine owner and importer, has put QR codes on wine bottles to help...
Reported by Mashable Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:46:42 +0000 At Apple's special event today, the company announced a redesigned and re-formulated Apple TV. As expected, the new device comes with support for Netflix, streams content and offers affordable rental pricing for TV shows.
The...
Reported by Mashable Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:46:42 +0000 Apple has unveiled its next generation of iPods which includes a touch-screen iPod Nano, an iPod Touch with FaceTime and a revamped iPod Shuffle.
Reported by Webuser Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:39:10 +0000 Documentary filmmaker Simon Klose has more than 200 hours of unedited footage that he plans turn into a feature-length film, The Pirate Bay - Away From Keyboard (TPB AFK).
After years of documenting The Pirate Bay's legal...
Reported by Mashable Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:26:33 +0000 Microsoft has completed the development of its forthcoming Windows Phone 7. The mobile OS has reached the release to manufacturing (RTM) stage, the company announced today.
All that remains now is for networks and manufacturers to work on the...
Reported by Mashable Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:26:33 +0000 Gowalla has launched a new feature called "highlights" which it describes as "little rewards you can give to places that are important to your life". MG Siegler talks about the potential significance of such a feature.
"Where this gets really interesting is when you bring the social graph into it," he writes. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:10:46 +0000 Justin.tv has a new Android app for broadcasting live video. This competes with services like UStream and Qik. Unfortunately, it doesn't let you simply watch Justin.tv content like the iPhone app does. Perhaps that will come later. This is the first Android app Justin.tv has offered.
"We've been focused on mobile applications since the beginning of this year, starting with the launch of Justin. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:44:12 +0000 In between the announcements about iPods, Apple TV, and a music-oriented social network, Apple and Google's mobile rivalry heated up a little more today. Steve Jobs, while discussing the success of iOS, also tossed out what was likely a veiled insult at Eric Schmidt and Android.
Remember how Schmidt said in early August that 200,... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:21:03 +0000 Google has launched a new major version of its 3D modeling tool SketchUp: version 8. This comes ten years after the launch of version 1.
Google says there are over a million people using SketchUp. "That's a pretty humbling number of 3D model makers," says SketchUp Product Manager John Bacus.
The new version comes with new geo-modeling capabilities that leverage Google's collection of geo-spatial ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:19:42 +0000 If I were MySpace, I would be shaking in my boots.
Earlier today, Apple launched iTunes 10, the latest rendition of its wildly popular music software. Really though, iTunes 10 is just a vessel for Ping,...
Reported by Mashable Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:13:19 +0000 If you're one of those people who has yet to figure out exactly how and why to use Facebook Places - and you're single - MeetMoi might have the answer. This week, the geolocation dating service became the first...
Reported by Mashable Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:13:19 +0000 It's US Open time in New York, which means tennis fever has officially hit the city that never sleeps. As the final major tournament in professional tennis, the US Open always draws a healthy audience, nationally and abroad.
Maybe you've...
Reported by Mashable Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:13:19 +0000 So fall's official jam (no, really, it was even playing in a super hipster Brooklyn club last weekend), Cee-lo Green's "F**ck You," officially has a video.
Just last week, a stripped-down video featuring merely the song's lyrics...
Reported by Mashable Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:57:37 +0000 Next week, Apple will launch Game Center for the iPhone and the iPod touch. The app and platform will allow video game players to track one another's achievements, create multiplayer matches and discover new games.
The features...
Reported by Mashable Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:57:37 +0000 If you're seeking a job in social media, we'd like to help out. For starters, Mashable's Job Lists section gathers together all of our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In...
Reported by Mashable Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:57:37 +0000 The other week we called upon you, gentle readers, to create a parody commercial for the Snazzy Napper - or Snuggie 2.0, as we have dubbed it. Although three of you stepped forward to assume to mantle of director,...
Reported by Mashable Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:57:37 +0000 Sony has updated its e-reader family of devices: the Reader Pocket, Reader Touch and Reader Daily. The new Readers offer touchscreen functionality based on infrared sensors that read taps made by a finger or a stylus. They are smaller and lighter, and have redesigned user interfaces.
Reported by E-Commerce Times Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:46:23 +0000 PeopleBrowsr shared a rather interesting report with us this week, looking at privacy related tweets during the center of this year's Facebook "privacy storm." The firm studied the public's reaction to Facebook's open graph-related announcements that set off the majority of the Facebook privacy controversy back in April.
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:46:22 +0000 Real estate website Zillow.com said today it has partnered with Apartments.com to bring the rental website's database of 90,000 apartment listings to Zillow.
Apartments.com rental listings include home details, photos, floor plans, and property manager contact information.
Listings from Apartments.com will be viewable to Zillow's 12 million monthly visitors,... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:18:32 +0000 Lots of news came out of today's Apple press event, but in the words of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, iPods were "the entree of the day." The iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano and iPod Touch each received significant...
Reported by Mashable Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:18:10 +0000 Steve Jobs revealed today that its newest mobile operating system iOS 4.2 will be coming out in November with free updates available for the iPad, the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Reported by Silicon Republic Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:15:28 +0000 Steve Jobs has revealed a new array of music devices and spearheaded Apple's move into social media with a new service called Ping which allows the 160m iTunes users worldwide to see what their friends have downloaded.
Reported by Silicon Republic Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:15:28 +0000 Today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the launch of Ping, a social network which Jobs calls "Facebook and Twitter meets iTunes." This new social network for iTunes 10 already has 160 million users in 23 countries built in right away.
Reported by Digital Journal Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:52:09 +0000