Etiquetas: iPod, música

Etiquetas: Microsoft

«As more consumers turn a deaf ear to traditional radio, stations increasingly are switching formats.
The Internet, iPods, computer games, podcasting, commercial-free satellite radio and staid programming have combined to slice average weekly listening time 9% since 1998, prompting many "terrestrial" commercial stations to jettison even relatively strong formats, such as rock, in several big markets.» (USA Today, via Obercom)

De acordo com o Obercom, a Music On Comand é uma nova tecnologia desenvolvida por uma empresa norte-americana que permite que os ouvintes de rádio tenham acesso às músicas e às notícias que passam na sua emissora favorita via e-mail.
"Gone are the days of recording favorite songs off the radio with a boom box. Thanks to Music On Command (http://www.musiconcommand.com) by technology development firm Baxter Technologies, Inc. (http://www.baxtech.com) and Nielsen Broadcasting BDS, radio listeners across the U.S. can now call a toll-free number while listening to a song, talk radio or news broadcast and have it sent directly to them via e-mail"

Nota: a quantos de nós já não aconteceu estar a ouvir uma determinada música e ficar à espera de saber o seu nome/autor, sem resultado? Seja porque esse anúncio foi feito no princípio e já não o apanhámos, seja porque pura e simplesmente não foi feito, seja - finalmente - porque prevalece o péssimo hábito de passar quatro ou cinco músicas seguidas (sem palavra) e quando se chega ao final já não há memória que aguente o anúncio inicial! Esta tecnologia é uma solução - um pouco mais do que fraca, penso - para esse problema. E fraca, sobretudo, porque os aparelhos de reprodução digital resolvem a coisa sem equívocos ou perdas.

"It's a good reason never to grow up," said Cary Silvers, vice president for consumer trends at Roper Youth Report, a nationwide poll from NOP World, a consumer research firm, which recently found that 18 percent of boys aged 13 to 17 surveyed owned an MP3 player, and that 37 percent owned a DVD player. But only 10 percent of the teenagers had a job, and on average they netted only $29 a week. (...)IT is no secret that Apple's sleek iPod, costing $99 to $449, has become, to the American teenager, a de rigueur fashion item, not just a handy gadget. "The iPod blew up the category," said Sharon Lee, a founder of Look-Look Inc., a company in Hollywood that tracks teenage consumer behavior. Not only did Apple's MP3 player "open a category that just didn't exist before," she said; it changed the way teenagers thought about gadgetry. But the iPod is not the only object of great desire. "In the last couple of years, there seems to be a shift in badge items," said Michael Wood, a vice president at Teenage Research Unlimited in Northbrook, Ill., which tracks youth buying patterns for more than 150 companies. "Whereas in the past it was an expensive pair of shoes or jeans - something on the fashion side - today the excitement and buzz is really around technology." (...) Melea Smith, of Naperville, Ill., explained why she caved in to demands by her daughter, 18, and her two older sons to supply them with the obligatory cellphones. "My kids' friends were pestering me, saying: 'What are you doing? They have to have cellphones,' " she said. "It's not that it's the cool thing. It's the must-have thing." Ms. Smith's daughter, Sarah Ross, also acquired an iPod recently. ("In one of my classes someone had one," said Sarah, a senior in high school. She recalled looking it over "for a half an hour" one day.) Next she needed a new laptop to go along with her iPod. "She was bugging me and bugging me," Ms. Smith said. "It's always the argument that she would be a better student, she could take it anywhere, she could take it to the library," Ms. Smith explained with a chuckle. "You see how it goes." (...).

fonte: New York Times, 'But I Neeeeeed It!' She Suggested, By ALEX WILLIAMS, Published: May 29, 2005 

Etiquetas: telemóveis, convergência

Etiquetas: multicast, HD-2