Inside View

First look at Walkman W910i phone

WITHOUT A MANUAL, we figured out how to pop off the back cover of the newest gadget in my wife's purse (see the phone at left) and then to do fun things. The newbie, a SonyEricsson W910i, replaces the first generation Walkman phone that ...

How music industry can do itself a favour

ANTOIN O LACHTNAIN asks a few questions about the music industry and online behaviour worth considering here. What concrete steps can the music industry take to stop, or at least slow down piracy? I think the industry should attempt to...

Goodbye Rock FM

OREILLY -- Yahoo! believes music will disappear from terrestrial radio within 10 years. According to Dave Goldberg, VP Music at Yahoo!, one rock station is closing each week. The music industry knows it cannot get audiences from rock rad...

Black Music Month

SINCE JUNE IS officially Black Music Month, Tipperary Institute podcasts during June 2006 will feature black musicians from the Podsafe Music Network. This will be very challenging because we have fewer than 10 tracks from black musician...

Irish Summer Jobs and Music

UNDERWAY IN IRELAND #35 starts with the Harleys and it has more music than talking in it and that's because my California friends didn't get a chance to hear enough of Kila during their short visit to Cashel. Also included: tracks from R...

Pop Singles Rejuvenated

POP MUSIC history gets made today when "Crazy" tops the British charts at Number One. It reaches that pinnacle through electronic downloads alone and its success points to the rebirth of the pop singles industry.

Ears for Music

IRISH PASSENGERS headed to foreign countries often go to shop (wonderful exchange rates at the moment), for dental work (the so-called dental tourists) and now for a form of plastic surgery sure to enhance the next generation iPod listen...

Kick-ass BP-4L Nokia Battery

MY NOKIA E90 lasts an entire work day, even when I have two hours of talktime recorded (literally recorded), an hour's worth of blogs read, and 21 minutes of tweeple engagement. I get only six hours of use from the thing if I stay hooked...

Essential Reading on Copyright Math for @seansherlocktd

Bernard Goldbach in Limerick Institute of Technology | 496 words I FOLLOW DEPUTY Sean Sherlock, hoping that some part of Ireland's creative community's concern about copyright will rub off on the politician. As part of this educat...

Missing Paragraphs from SBP

SOMETHING GOES MISSING in the Sunday Business Post coverage of music downloading. The article points to causes and effects of the digital music revolution but misses the key point that today's digital download market is now big enough to...