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Two Laptops And A Mobile Phone: Startup Music From SoundCloud's Alex Ljung

Ljung put his life on hold to build his own cloud focused on sound creators instead of consumers--a Flickr for music.READ»

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Nintendo To Make Games For iPhone?, Intel Bets Against Tablets, QR Codes Scanned By 14 Million In June

QR Codes Used By 14 Million In June Alone While different augmented reality technologies are gaining ground, All Things Digital on Thursday reported that in June 2011 alone, some 6% of U.S. phone owners, or a whopping 14 ...READ»

Crowdstory's Audio Easter Egg Hunt

A new student startup lets you leave behind miniature stories everywhere you go. In the process, it might just help create a little tech hub in an unexpected place: Oklahoma.READ»

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Amazon's Kindle App for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch Gets Embeddable Audio and Video

Amazon's own Kindle hardware might not be able to handle it, but the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch Kindle apps are all getting embeddable audio and video. Next-gen books ahoy!READ»

World Cup Hack: A Simple Fix to Eliminate That Annoying Vuvuzela Drone

The drone of the vuvuzela, that ear-piercingly annoying plastic horn, has tempered the excitement of this year's World Cup matches. Here's a fairly easy fix that just might snip the vuvuzela out of your life.READ»

The Man Who Changed the Ears of the World: R.I.P. Dr. Fritz Sennheiser

Musicians, and those who toil in the radio, TV or film industries may find life today sounding quieter, a little less crisp, even. Dr. Fritz Sennheiser, the founder of the eponymous family engineering firm, has died a few days after ...READ»

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The History of Personal, Portable Music: Home Taping Is Never Not Killing Music

At this year's Pop Conference, Tim Quirk delivered a speech on the history of the Walkman, and how it informed our personal listening behavior up to the modern day. Just remember: home taping is killing music.READ»

Recording The World's Best Live Music

He's worked in the recording studio of Austin City Limits since the show started back in the 1970s but here we record David Hough, Audio Director, talking about his experiences. Why do this? We're getting around and meeting people who ...READ»

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Ambient Tunes While You Ride Your Bike

Tunebug turns the helmet itself into a flat-panel speakerREAD»

Audio/Visual

The audio/visual classes allow students to combine skills learned from many different fields. Elements of writing, photography, art, computers, music and more all come together in the audio/visual field.In Delphi’s A/V classes, ...READ»

Need Fancy Wireless Audio Equipment? Sony and Best Buy Can Help

Sony, high-tech electronics giant, has just announced a partnership with Best Buy, U.S. retail giant, to produce a whole new audio product line. It sounds like an unusual pairing, but it looks like it's borne some pretty interesting ...READ»

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How to Build Plasma Arc Speakers

You've never seen speakers like these. Instead of a traditional speaker diaphragm, plasma arc speakers use a modified carbon arc lamp to produce sound. The best part? You can build them yourself, and they make an intense purplish glow ...READ»

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Free Training Online - How to Build and Capture Your Audience with Audio and Video on Your Site

I have personally experience the powerful reaction from having audios and videos on my websites. I watch how the traffic grew when I put the videos and audios from our AIBusinessPro to our website. READ»

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Under the Radar Conference Preview: Pixelpipe

Once you start to use even three social media services--and who among us isn't on Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr, to name three -- managing them can become a huge pain. Enter Pixelpipe.READ»

Internet Marketing: Be Free and Build Your Own Website

With today's fast growing market, the faster you catch up the better it is for you and your business.  The faster you get your information out there in the eyes and ears of the consumers, the better chance you have to catch ...READ»

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New Bookshelf Stereos From Sharp

Not to be shown up at the CEDIA conference, Sharp [OTC:SHCAY] revived the oft-forgotten bookshelf boombox sound system with two new models that might make you ditch you diminutive iPod-speaker-cum-alarm-clock. Called the -- get your ...READ»

Talk About It

I would call it TalkAboutIt but that name is taken. It's a social site where you can talk to another person about whatever. Talk...not type. Audio...not video. You start by maybe choosing a topic from a tag cloud. Maybe it's ...READ»