We’ve been wondering what Beats Music will look like since July 2012, when Beats Electronics bought the MOG music service, and also since July 2013, when Beats Music was still called “Project Daisy,” so-named after the dog of Beats Music president and COO Luke Wood. After years of strategizing, redesigning, conceptualizing, and everything else that…
Barring a freak announcement from Neil Young or YouTube, Beats Music will be the first of the big three (at least) music services launching in 2014, all three having pushed back launches from 2013. Beats Music, led by a crew of music industry veterans (including Jimmy Iovine, Trent Reznor, Luke Wood, and Ian Rogers), will…
After an Apple sales representative told us there was no way to upgrade to the iPhone 5s through Apple and keep an unlimited data plan, we followed up on his suggestion to try ordering through AT&T instead. We’re happy to report that, yes, it is possible to upgrade to the iPhone 5s and keep your…
Keeping an unlimited AT&T data plan alive requires not only having been an early smartphone adopter, but also an obsessive attention to detail and the ability to resist the impulse to, say, tether your laptop to your smartphone’s data connection — even in a work emergency. If you do that even once, you lose your…
Apple and every cellphone provider that sells the iPhone 5 are over the moon this Monday morning, as the new iPhone set new sales records – even as its ship date gets pushed back to accommodate the flood of interest from consumers. People simply cannot wait to get their hands on the sixth coming of the “Jesus…
Responding to complaints about its practice of limiting data plans it sold as “unlimited,” AT&T clarified the amount of wireless data its smartphone customers can use before it starts throttling their bandwidth this week. The new limits at which AT&T will slow down users’ bandwidth: 3GB per month for smartphone users or 5GB for subscribers…
You can’t use Apple iCloud yet. When you can, which should be this fall, you’ll notice something really peculiar: Unlike other music lockers, iCloud can’t stream music to you over the internet or a cellular connection. Instead, it downloads the files to your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or iTunes-enabled computer, where you can play them…
Many love them, some claim to hate them, and some profess not to care at all, but we all know smartphones are changing everything. When it comes to the music business, mobile operators (you know, the companies who bill about a hundred bucks per month for your smartphone) have been backing the wrong horses and…
With such a preposterous variety of apps on a multitude of smartphones to choose from, it can be easy to forget that they all access the internet mainly through four companies — AT&T, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless. Much of what we do really is moving to the cloud, and as that happens, your…
Verizon announced on Thursday, the first day for which it is accepting pre-orders for the iPhone 4, that it will begin throttling the wireless bandwidth of its most active users in order to preserve decent data speeds for everyone else — the same way AT&T had to do when data-hungry iPhone users clogged its pipes….
Verizon plans to announce an iPhone for its 3G wireless network, giving U.S. iPhone users a choice in cell service providers. As one might predict, AT&T and Verizon are now engaged in yet another public slapfight in anticipation of tomorrow’s announcement, this time about which network will be best for iPhone users. Verizon plans to tout…
Google announced on Thursday that its Android Marketplace, where app developers sell and offer free apps to users of Android smartphones, will now accept payment by charging a customer’s AT&T or T-Mobile phone bill, in addition to allowing them to pay with credit cards. It was already easy enough to buy mobile apps using a…
