SpiralFrog, the music based service that launched a couple of years ago is no longer in service without any signs of warning. The service shut down on Thursday due to lack of revenues, increase in debts, and as DRM is no longer becoming an issue by Amazon.com and iTunes.
SpiralFrog started offering free music downloads in 2006 as long as users agreed to watch ads once every 30 days. Universal Music and EMI worked closely with SpiralFrog before it shut down.
SpiralFrog went out on Thursday afternoon and handed over assets to creditors to help pay off the debt. SpiralFrog borrowed $9 million last year to stay alive. That loan has fizzled and the company didn’t have anything to pay off debt left. SpiralFrog is no longer ribbiting.
Google has seen its fair share of controversy for going around in cars and taking pictures for their Street View service. One of the latest examples is this British man regurgitating on the streets of London after a stag party in daylight.
Even though this poor guy doesn’t have access to the porcelain throne, he has an antler-hat-wearing friend to hold his hair up and watch his back.
Long story short, the British complained and the photo was quickly removed.
I just had to give props to Matt Burns for this project from one Michigander to another. Matt Burns of Swartz Creek and his wife Rhyannon is hitting the road with a Ford Fusion hybrid. He will be starting from the home of Ford’s headquarters Dearborn, Michigan and making his way to San Francisco, California.
During the 10 day trip, Burns will be tweeting, texting, blogging, and talking on his web cam as he makes his way across the country. Burns, 25, is a former salesman at Circuit City. Through working at CrunchGear, Burns is able to work from home.
“I thought I was in for it in the beginning when he said he was going to stay home and write,” stated Rhyannon Burns in an interview with MLive.com. “It’s a chance you take, not the typical job somebody has. But I had faith in him he’d take care of us and he has.”
Burns is one out of seven bloggers that will be delivering Ford Fusions to media fleets in other cities. Burns is a former TV editor with EngadgetHD.com as well.
Apple and AT&T are being sued for under-delivering claims for the iPhone 3G speeds. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court, District of New Jersey. Damone Dickerson is responsible for the lawsuit and he claims that Apple is misrepresenting the speed and performance of the 3G network.
Dickerson even goes as far as claiming that most of the time he does not get any 3G connectivity at all. Dickerson is hitting the companies with Negligence, Breach of Express Warranty, Breach of Implied Warranty of Merchantability, Unjust Enrichment, Negligent Misrepresentation, Violation of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act and Other Similar State Statutes, and Breach of Contract according to PC World.
For lack of stable connectivity, Dickerson wants Apple and AT&T to correct their advertising and provide compensatory and punitive damages. Apple and AT&T has also been sued in San Jose, San Diego, Alabama, Florida, Texas, and New York.
BeamBox is now taking orders for the Evolution R-1 pocket projector. The R-1 has an LCoS chip with 30 lumens of brightness, 200:1 contrast ratio, and VGA (640×480) resolution. The R-1 also has 4GB of Flash memory and extra space with a microSD slot. The R-1 costs about $364 and starts shipping on April 1.
This mini gun has 2 functions. The scope of the gun has a laser pointer and the barrel of the gun has a blue jet torch. It runs for $7.99 on Bcheap.com.
Rogers has brought the Nokia E71 to Canada. This sleek, white doohickey will be available at a low price of $99.99 but you will be locked into a three year contract and a minimum $45 voice/data plan. Other options are $374.99 for the phone (w/ 2 year contract) and $399.99 (w/ 1 year contract). Or outright, the phone calls $449.99. The Nokia E71 is the thinnest smartphone Rogers now has to offer. The phone has built-in GPS, WiFi, 3.2 megapixel camera, auto focus and flash, and an 8GB memory storage.
Jeffrey Rayport (Harvard Prof), Beth Dover (comedian), Ask A Ninja, Janeane Garofalo (comedian), Dave Hill, Christian Finnegan (comedian), Jordan Carlos (comedian), Baron Vaughn (comedian), and the Hamster Dance all star in this marketing video put together by Microsoft’s ad agency Bradley and Montgomery. Its a 5 minute video about the “history of the Internet.” The video was made in promotion of Internet Explorer 8.
I’d say that this video is funnier than the set of clips Microsoft put together using Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates. This video brought back memories of The Hamster Dance and Ask A Ninja, two Internet memes that made people say “WTF is this?” in their head. I also love the Ask A Ninja’s reference to Steve Ballmer’s developers, developers, developers rant.
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