| Is Bellumio's Cyloop Music's New Business Model?
The music industry loses billions each year on pirated music, so labels are constantly looking for new ways to hold on to their business -- even offering music for free. Soon, you'll be able to hear the entire music catalogs of labels like Warner and EMI for free, without commercial interruptions, on a social networking site called Cyloop.com. Cyloop.com, headed by Argentine-born Demian Bellumio, began life as ElHood.com, a social network website geared toward Hispanic musicians. The company changed its name to Cyloop in August with goals to expand globally, including English-language offerings. On Monday, Cyloop.com announced it had signed deals with heavyweights like Warner and The Orchard, which distributes the music of about 6,000 independent labels. Members can stream as much music as they want and create playlists to save and share with other members.
iPodObserver - ReaddleUp Lets iPhone, iPod touch Users View Documents
Readdle.com announced the immediate availability of ReaddleUp on Tuesday. ReaddleUp is an application and Web based service that lets Mac OS X users read their electronic books, text files, and other documents from their iPhone or iPod touch. ReaddleUp includes an application that uploads user documents to the Readdle online server. Once uploaded, users access their online account and read documents from Mobile Safari on their iPhone or iPod touch. ReaddleUp supports Word, HTML, PDF, RTF, TXT, XLS, GIF, JPEG, and PDB formats. The service is free, and includes 50MB of document storage space. .
Clamour as iPhones launched in Britain
LONDON (AFP) - Britons desperate for an iPhone finally got their hands on the much-hyped gadget Friday as it went on sale here four months after being launched in the United States. Apple's iPhone -- an Internet-enabled mobile telephone, portable digital media player and digital camera in one -- was available in shops and online from 6:02 pm (1802 GMT) at 269 pounds (563 dollars, 383 euros) each. Some 1,300-odd Apple, Carphone Warehouse and O2 stores faced a surge of customers who queued for hours to be among the first to get hold of one. Sales of the eight-gigabyte devices were limited to two per person. "It will be the best day we have ever had and our best weekend," Carphone Warehouse boss Charles Dunstone predicted. "It is a really important day not just for Apple but actually for the phone industry.
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