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Music discovery and social sharing site This Is My Jam is shutting down. But the site won't completely disappear from the Internet. From an e-mail sent today to This Is My Jam users: Well, this is a tough one to send. After four years, more than two million jams, and assessing many options, we’ve decided to archive Jam in September.
After months of speculation following their acquisition of Beats, Apple has announced its own streaming music service. At yesterday's WWDC keynote, Eddy Cue (Apple's VP of Internet Software and Services) introduced Apple Music, "a revolutionary streaming service" that gives users access to a collection of over 30 million songs right from their iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or Android phone. Users can
There are many complaints about digital music. Some say its audio quality doesn't measure up to analog sources like vinyl records. Others contend that ever-expanding digital divide has been causing the once thriving music industry to eat itself, leaving many artists out in the cold. For better or worse, music has become more and more digitized in recent years. Seems
It's rare that products sent for review offer any great surprises: usually gadgets arriving on my desk meet my expectations in terms of build, functionality and price. However, occasionally a device delivers more than expected and I'm pleased to say that this is one such occasion. The Divoom Airbeat-10 punches well above its weight with loudness and clarity that belies
At Gadget Show Live, I had the chance to chat with Michael from Sennheiser about their current headphone range including the Urbanites and the latest iteration in their classic Momentum series. The second generation Momentum M2 maintains the original's high fidelity while improving the headphones' comfort. The Momentum Wireless is ideal for the traveller with Sennheiser's active noise-cancellation technology, NoiseGard, and
As a performing musician, it can be a real drag to have to deal with an instrument cable hanging off behind you on stage. You never know for sure if that cord is going to get tangled up in a weird way, potentially damaging your gear (or maybe even you!). Also, cables can be limiting in terms of mobility. Because
Creative products always induce a little nostalgia with me as the Creative Sound Blaster Pro was the first ever upgrade that I bought for my PC. Looking back from today and the state of digital audio, it's hard to imagine that most PCs only went "beep" back in the late 1980s and early 90s. Once I'd installed the SB Pro,