iCWeekly Episode 144: Occupy Spotify

 A hard drive crashes, a new camera appears and reflections abound. This week we discuss new music offerings by Apple and Google. We discuss how this affects Indie Artists. All this and more, with our FREE software picks. This week, we Occupy Spotify... 

After numerous developer betas and a delay of about a month, Apple has launched the iTunes 10.5.1 update with iTunes Match

Here's the annual list of worst internet passwords

Stanford is offering its popular iOS app development course for free in iTunes U

Google is partnering with Universal, EMI, Sony Music and no less than 23 independent labels, with its new Google Music service

Skype Beta for Mac and Windows adds Facebook-to-Facebook calling

33 percent of human beings have broken up with their beloveds by text

Man, working for company, creates Twiiter account that company now is suing man for

Facebook is investigating reports of a massive wave of pornographic and violent images being posted to its website

Apple has a location based services patent that could rock the Internet

Pakistan is banning rude text messages

Universal Music Group says it has obtained e-mails and other records that show Grooveshark's leaders led an effort to post over 100,000 pirated songs onto the music service

Several media outlets are reporting that 200 music labels are pulling out of Spotify

FREE Software Picks:
SSSSYNTH is free software synthesizer for the iPhone and iPad

Ableton has a new freebie for Max For Live users - the Kasio-4ML synthesizer

193 "Extreme Bass Samples" The samples are split into two folders: Live bass Biz and Low-end FX

Gobbler is offering 25GB Gobbler accounts to anyone who signs up before December 7th

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