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Last.fm Gets 1 Million New Subscribers in One Week

Music streaming services have been seeing a lot of interest lately but most of the focus has been on either newcomers or the failing ones. Last.fm, one of the oldest and still one of the most popular music services, has been staying quiet for the most part, but things are definitely moving forward behind the scenes. ...

25 November 2009
09:01 GMT

Xbox Live Facebook and Twitter Only for Those Over 18

One of the big selling points of the Xbox 360 home gaming console, for this Christmas, is the social tools which Microsoft is promising to integrate, from Facebook and Twitter to Last.fm. They are being slowly rolled out over the coming weeks and the company is hoping that the new services, available to all thos...

10 November 2009
14:31 GMT

Last.fm to Move into Television with Last.TV

CBS is trying everything with Last.fm after it has mostly failed to gain the success, and revenue it was initially hoping for when it acquired the site in 2007 for $280 million. Recently it launched several Last.fm-branded HD broadcast radio stations and now it's taking the next step with Last.TV, a project to a...

28 October 2009
10:50 GMT

Last.fm to Come to CBS HD Radio Stations in October

While the natural evolution of things has traditional radios moving online to keep up with the times, online radio station, social music aggregator and music-centric social network Last.fm is doing the exact opposite by moving to the airwaves. Owned by CBS, the site will effectively start running the media company&rs...

12 September 2009
04:30 GMT

Share Your Songs on Twitter, Facebook or Last.fm with FoxyTunes

FoxyTunes, the music-focused add-on for Firefox, has been adding a great number of features since it was acquired by Yahoo in early 2008. What started out as a way of controlling your media player inside the browser has grown into a full-blown music search and discovery service. The latest version adds another dimens...

21 August 2009
10:02 GMT

MySpace Rumored to Acquire iLike

The popular social music discovery service iLike has just launched its own music store, hoping it would provide the company with a more reliable revenue source in light of the declining online ad market. The news, coupled with iLike's immensely popular social networking apps, has made many ask how is MySpace, wh...

17 August 2009
11:02 GMT

Microsoft Preparing Music Streaming for the Xbox 360

Microsoft seems to be committed to releasing a new music streaming service and one of the targeted platforms is said to be the Xbox 360 home gaming console. The company has begun to talk about the new service and the planned launch date is somewhere in late July.Peter Bale, who is an executive producer for the softwa...

16 July 2009
02:52 GMT

Pricing Details for Xbox Live Last.fm Service Revealed

The Xbox 360 definitely has a lot of features, the most important one among them being the Xbox Live online service, which is one of the most highly used and most popular parts of the Microsoft-made console. Providing great support for multiplayer and a lot of other interesting features, it is a definitive factor whe...

2 July 2009
02:37 GMT

Last.fm Founders Leave the Company

Two years after Last.fm was acquired by CBS, the online radio's founders Martin Stiksel, Felix Miller and Richard Jones have announced they are leaving the company. The announcement was made on the last.fm official blog and the co-founders believe their mission at the company was completed.“[We] feel the t...

11 June 2009
08:43 GMT

How To: Scrobble YouTube Videos to Last.fm

Last.fm, a service with social networking components, has proved very popular with music fans who like to share their tastes with their friends, and one of the best parts about it is that it lets you scrobble your music. Scrobbling is a process that involves getting the song info and uploading it to Last.fm, and you ...

27 May 2009
05:34 GMT

Amarok 2.0.1 Adds 13 Features, 9 Changes and 33 Bugfixes

The final version of Amarok 2.0 media player was released on the 10th of December, 2008, after more than two hard years of development. The new release brought a revamped and more intuitive user interface, breathtaking new features, support for Last.fm, Shoutcast, Jamendo, Ampache or MP3tunes music services and many ...

7 January 2009
05:15 GMT

All Points Bulletin Incorporates Facebook Support

All Points Bulletin from Realtime Worlds is said to be the closest thing to a Grand Theft Auto MMO we're going to have until Rockstar finally decides to take the big step and create an open world multiplayer experience built on their very successful franchise.And now the developers are saying that they plan to c...

7 October 2008
04:24 GMT

Last.fm Player Review

We all love music, and I'm willing to bet money on that any given day of the week. I'm positive nobody could argue with me when I say that there's not a single person in this world who hasn't spent at least a few hours listening to their favorite tunes. That's one of the reason...

27 August 2008
23:00 GMT

Audiosurf Patch Adds Support for last.fm

Audiosurf is one of those indie games that seem to take the world by storm. The idea is so simple and so well implemented that it immediately captures the player and drives him to spend every last free minute that isn't allocated to sleeping, eating, washing or working, on the game. Well, the last part might be ...

8 May 2008
20:26 GMT

Service Launched to Bring Free Music to All!

Strangely, in the last days, all I've been hearing about is music, the way DRM should be removed because it is obsolete, that perhaps iTunes should consider lowering its prices and so on and so forth. A lot of talk around one of the best selling products in the world, talks which sometimes I consider to be rath...

24 January 2008
03:55 GMT


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