Support Our Site
Get Better Gear!
- Kensington Windshield/Vent Car Mount with Sound Amplified Cradle for iPhone from Kensington, $39.99
- SigFx Energy iPhone Case Contains Smart Battery from SigFx Energy, US$69.95
- NAVIGON AG - True GPS Software for the iPhone from NAVIGON Inc., 89.99
- Tweetie 2 from atebits, $2.99
- Snood: Flawed Casual Play from Electronic Arts, US$3.99
Premier Sponsors
Top 5 Free Apps
iTunes New Music Releases
Top 5 Paid Apps
Discover New Music
Bowie at Beeb: Best of BBC Radio 68-72
- David Bowie
The companion CD to a BBC television concert, BBC Radio Theatre has some of the best renditions of many of Bowie's best songs throughout his career. "I'm Afraid of Americans" is substantial
- Barenaked Ladies
- These guys know how to put on a live show, and whomever recorded this knows how to capture one. Rock Spectacle is one of the warmest-sounding recordings I've ever heard, and totally fills a room at a
- Bauhaus
Go Away White is an album I've been waiting more than 20 years to hear, and the good news is that it was worth the wait. The latest -- and last, no...for real this time -- album from
- Poe
Poe rocked my world with "Angry Johnny" (I want to kill you/I want to blow you/Away) and "Trigger Happy Jack" (Trigger Happy Jack/ You're gonna blow/But I'm gonna get off/Before you go), as powe
- Harvey Danger
The sophomore effort from Harvey Danger, I was really looking forward to this followup to "Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?" Unfortunately, "King James Version" failed to deliver any of the bri
Reader Specials
Visit Deals On The Web for the best deals on all consumer electronics, iPods, and more!
News
Time Warner Builds iTunes Competitor
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 at 4:00 PM - by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Time Warner Cable is launching a music service intended to compete with iTunes. The music subscription service will offer more than 3 million songs from EMI Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group as well as independent labels, according to Time Warner on Thursday.
The Road Runner Music Service is a subscription service and music store. The Time Warner Road Runner Music Portable is a service that allows customers to play the content on portable music players.
"These enhanced music products offer superb functionality and a solid value for our customers," said Steve Cook, group vice president of High Speed Online and Road Runner for Time Warner Cable. "We are pleased to offer our customers music products that are convenient and easy to use both in the home and on the go."
Here are the features of the service:
- RRMS is a subscription service only.
- Files are in Windows Media format, protected.
- RRMS supports PCs only
- MusicNet is writing the media player for Time Warner
- Synacor will handle billing and authentication
For US$9.95/month customers will have access to subscription songs, ad-free radio, and music videos. For an additional US$5/month the Road Runner Music Portable service will allow customers to play ther content on up to three portable media players.
Specific media players were not mentioned in the release.
Recent Headlines
- Apple TV 3.0.1 Update Fixes Missing Content Bug
- Taiwan Leak Shows Verizon UTMS/CDMA iPhone for Q3 2010
- iPhone Moves Into RadioShack
- Dictionary, Dictionary, Dictionary, And More
- The Latest App Store Games: Gravity Sling, RocketBird, Ground Effect, Checkers!
- iPhone Game Developer Sued for Collecting User’s Cell Numbers
- Apple May Be Bringing RFID to the iPhone
Post Your Comments