Today, HMV launched HMV On-Demand, its own inevitable foray into the world of video on demand. But it seems to have missed the mark and may stumble straight out of the gates. In its honour, we’ve pulled out a list of the other last-ditch tech comebacks and launched that faltered, flapped and were dead on arrival. Read more
The US iTunes site has just been updated with a mystery announcement, that’ll be broadcast over on our shores at 3pm GMT. We’re promised an “exciting announcement”, and that tomorrow will be “just another day that you’ll never forget”. What do you think this surprise announcement could be? More Ping announcements? Facebook integration? Click through for the full invite, and click and tell…
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Apple has stealthily punted Ping onto the iPad. The music-sharing social network baked into iTunes has been getting a little bit more useful recently with Twitter integration thrown into the mix last week. Now you can get at Ping via the iTunes iPad app. So what does Pinging (we’re not sure that really is a verb) on the iPad get you?
Apple is still beavering away with the iTunes Ping social network but we’re not sure it’s new rules for artists creating profiles will encourage them to jump on board. While rockstars are used to getting their way, Apple has outlined its own very specific and strict rider in the Ping guidelines. As usual, Apple is saying: it’s our way or the highway…
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Justin Bieber is not a name you want to be lumbered with it. Like an ancient talisman drawing evil spirits, it will bring hordes or teenybopper fans running at you zombie like and desperate for the attention of their old-lady-haired idol. Pity poor Justin Bieber of Jacksonville, Florida, who found himself locked out of Facebook after the social network thought he was impersonating the little singing poodle. Apple even temporarily bounced him from Ping because of the famous Bieber. Read on for the Kafkaesque tale of being plagued by Bieberists…
Ping may be getting a second coming, if a deal currently on the table between Facebook and Apple can be worked out. Ping did have Facebook Connect at launch, but apparently, this was not agreed with Facebook, and was pulled from the service pretty sharpish. Now, discusssions are going on again, and if sources are to be believed, Ping may be set to make a return to Facebook.
Steve Jobs was on Ping when he announced its as the jewel of the new features in iTunes 10 during last night’s Apple event. Now he’s not. We spotted that friends in the US had managed to follow the Apple head honcho on Ping and naturally we wanted to as well but when we tried, we discovered he’d already quit. Why has the polo-necked prophet packed in Ping?
Apple only outed Ping – its music-focused social network baked into iTunes 10 – yesterday but the verdict online hasn’t been good. Perennial early-adopter Robert Scoble summed up the general consensus in a tweet: “PING = Ping Is No Good. Geesh, Apple, you could have copied a lot of the innovations that Facebook and Twitter have shown you. Sigh.” We’ve rounded up the 10 most common criticisms of Ping and 10 ways Apple could fix them in an iTunes 10 update…
