May 17th, 2013 by Music Ally

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The latest startup looking to help music artists sell live recordings to fans is Soundhalo, which launched yesterday.

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May 17th, 2013 by Music Ally

IDC has published its latest estimates for smartphone shipments in the first quarter of 2013. IDC pegs Android as taking a 75% share of smartphone shipments in Q1.

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May 16th, 2013 by Music Ally

In what has to count as startlingly fortuitous timing, Apple's iOS App Store reached the 50bn app-downloads milestone just as rival Google was holding its news-packed I/O conference keynote.

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May 16th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

Play Music - Listen Now - Nexus 4

For once, the rumours had it pretty much right, apart from the unwieldy title. Google unveiled its new streaming music service last night, and Google Play Music All Access is launching this week in the...

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May 15th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Yesterday saw BlackBerry unveil its latest smartphone, the keyboard-toting Q5, but there were also some interesting developments with its BBM messaging service.

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May 15th, 2013 by Music Ally

Gartner has produced its numbers about smartphone sales to end users, claiming that 210m smartphones were sold in Q1, up 42.9% year-on-year and accounting for 49.3% of all mobile phone sales in the quarter.

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May 15th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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That hackneyed 'Spotify-killer' phrase was dusted down last night with a flurry of rumours that Google is ready to unveil at least one of its planned subscription-music services tonight, during the keynote...

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May 13th, 2013 by Music Ally

Say Thing

Social word-games are pretty popular on mobile devices, thanks to apps like Words With Friends. Now indie band OK Go want in on the action with their own game called Say the Same Thing, released through...

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May 10th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Rdio and Shazam have been working together since last Autumn in the US, with the streaming service offering free streams of full tracks for Shazam users when they tag music.

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