Greg Rollett runs a music marketing company from his laptop in Orlando, FL. He is an advocate of the New Music Economy and very hopeful that artists can still live the rock star lifestyle in the digital age. Connect with Greg on Twitter, @g_ro. Today’s musicians, both mainstream and …

Words… what good are words when you’re trying to describe the horrific visage of a growling, rugged, heavyweight camera coated in the frilly tutu of the color spectrum, magenta ? We shan’t try to describe the peculiar mix of revolt, disgust and subtle desire that this whole thing incites in…

We aren’t trying to lump these two together or anything, but we figured we’d give those of you who opted for Palm’s second set of webOS handsets an opportunity to pool your thoughts in order to make the smartphone landscape an even better place to survey. We personally didn’t find too much new …

Happy Friday, people! Along with the venerable tradition of Follow Friday , today also marks this week’s edition of the Friday Poll . Last week we wanted to know if location checkin services freak you out in terms of privacy concerns. Reactions were pretty mixed, although many of you felt like services gave you enough …

Spotify is a free, legal, cloud-based streaming music service delivered via desktop software with a nice social twist. A Swedish start-up with offices in London, it launched back in 2008 in Europe and now boasts around five million users and around six million tracks from the major labels as well as a…

As the battle between HTML5 and Adobe Flash continues to heat up, Virgin America has chosen a side : their brand new web site design ditches Flash in favor of HTML. The reason? The startup airline plans a big push into mobile this year and wants to be sure iPhone users can…

Microsoft Outlook has just become a lot more social through new partnerships with Facebook and MySpace and an existing one with LinkedIn. You might remember back in November that Microsoft announced Outlook Social Connector , a new Office 2010 feature that hooks up social feeds into the Outlook inbox. The initial partner for the program…

Like many of you, we can’t wait for the official unveiling of the iSlate (or whatever name Apple chooses for its next product). Apple is an interesting company to watch because not only are their products innovative, but the best Apple products create entirely new markets. Sure, there were mobile applications for…

People traditionally don’t flock to the movies around the New Year. So far, the biggest grossing movie on New Year’s weekend was Meet the Fockers with $41.7 million. And then, Avatar came and demolished that record with a clean $68.3 million. It’s the best third weekend in …

2009 saw its share of stories about the Chinese government’s attempt to “filter” the internet for its citizens, including blocking popular social sites , mandating blocking software on all PCs sold in the country, petitioning Google to remove content from its Chinese index, and more. The net result? 5,394 arrests and 4,186 criminal case investigations during 2009 &#…