Inspired by beaches, ocean and sun, Pacific! seeks to remind us sonically about the stuff we love scenically. The pair that make up Pacific! are electronic music light bearers who sound more like Daft Punk-loving French producers than Swedes who dream about the sea.
Junior Sanchez is a favorite of many dance-music heads who know their stuff, rocking the turntables for almost two decades and enjoying the perks that come with being a favorite nearly the whole way. In recent years, Junior's electro-indie-rock and hip-hop tastes have led him to start his own label, Brobot--a venue for him to put out tracks like "Elevator" featuring buddies Good Charlotte and hipster-hop sensation Hollywood Holt, again proving his taste in the cool way only this tastemaker can.
Veronica's back with us today as we record from the New Media Expo in Las Vegas. We talk about the woes of the modern Web, and specifically Netflix's problems on the back-end. Also there's some news about Windows 7, or at least news about when more news will be coming. And thankfully the IOC backed down on the DMCA takedown notice. That and some more hilarious e-mails.
Listen now: Download today's podcast EPISODE 789Netflix may lose $1.8M to $3.6M in revenue per day over outage http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9676
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Hailing from rural Massachusetts, teenager Sonya Kitchell is coming of age with her fresh approach to singing and songwriting. Much like Norah Jones, Kitchell hooks you in with her quiet-is-the-new-loud vocals and delicate arrangements.
Rep is on it when he describes his "Unclosed Mind" disc as music first and hip-hop second. The tight rhymes and chopped rhythms are critical, but this is really melodic storytelling. The dreamy final effect can recall the Roots at their most abstract.
Their sound may be full of energy and flair with strong influences of new wave and '80s electronics, but the music of the Faint is dark and brooding. Had the pop music of 1988 continued unabated and fallen into a vicious cycle of desperation and frustration, the Faint would be the false idols to which aspiring artists made their sacrifice.
MyCaption, a member of the BlackBerry Alliance, introduced on Tuesday a new way BlackBerry users can work with e-mails on their smartphones: by speaking.
Actually, this is not exactly a breakthrough, as voice recognition technology has been out there for a long time and can be found in the Voice Command or Voice Dialing features of many smartphones. However, this seems to be the first time you can use it for more than simple sentences, such as, "Call Johnny at the office."
MyCaption claims that its new application is sophisticated enough that people can compose, forward, or reply … Read more
A funny thing happened on the way to Boston: the CNET office disappeared. Our Cambridge office is moving to a new location, so when I arrived on the East Coast for a short stay, I found myself without a cube to call home. More importantly, I couldn't work from a computer already inside the CNET firewall, which left me with two choices: use a VPN client, or use a remote access program.
I haven't encountered a single VPN client review without some degree of legitimate complaint, and my own experience with them has left much to be desired. … Read more
Congress learns all about cookies (not the delicious kind...but maybe the del.icio.us kind), Gmail goes down, and Google proves to be a terrible communicator. Also, the Amazon Kindle may take off after all (har har), and Twitter baffles us completely regarding its follow/follower spam prevention thing. In sum, it's a Tuesday, but it feels like a Monday.
Listen now: Download today's podcast EPISODE 786Google apologizes for Gmail outage http://www.crn.com/software/210002714
PC World: Google Apps hit by prolonged Gmail access problem http://www.pcworld.com/article/149524/
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For awhile there, the erstwhile indie savior was exiled in the mainstream. Now Phair is on Dave Matthews' ATO, and the label is doing a much-deserved reissue of her classic 1993 LP. If you never got all the fuss, you can read new essays that explain it--or just sample Phair's brassy cool.
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