ShapeMix Music Marketplace Unveiled for iPhone and iPad Apps
Enhance Mixes with Music from Tokyo Police Club and Pigeon John (Bank Robber Music); Kid Sister (Downtown Music Publishing), Radio Freq (SONGS Music Publishing) and more
NEW YORK and BOSTON, July 13, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ShapeMix Mobile for iPhone, an intuitive, patent-pending music mixing application that turns your device into a fully featured music studio,
is now available for free download via the App Store. ShapeMix Mobile for iPhone enables music fans to simply drag and drop audio tracks with their fingertips to create an original mix and share it via www.shapemix.com, email, Facebook, Twitter and other online sites. ShapeMix for iPad is also available for paid download in the App store for $4.99.

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With last week’s launch of the Spotify music subscription service in the US, American listeners now have the option of joining their European pals in an all-you-can-eat musical smorgasbord. After spending some time with a Premium subscription, we have to say that this is a buffet that many music lovers won’t want to miss.
If you’ve heard about Spotify invites and kept away because you didn’t feel like tracking one down, have no fear – you can join immediately. Free memberships are not yet open in the US, and for those you will need an invite. However, those wanting to jump right in can become a member instantly by simply signing up for one of Spotify’s paid options.

Anglo-Swedish streaming music provider Spotify launched its music service in the US on Thursday, nearly two years after the company first discussed the plan.
In an updated statement about its US launch, Spotify -- which was first launched in Sweden in 2008 -- said it has more than 1.6 million paying users in Europe and more than 10 million registered users in total.
Spotify recently set limits on the amount of free music users could listen to before paying a fee. It now said the ratio of paying subscribers to active free users was "well over 15 percent."

22nd July 2011 - Apple has announced during its quarterly financial meeting that a ‘future product transition’ will happen in the September quarter.
Going no further than that, the clever money is on this transition being for Apple’s iPhone range. It is approaching a year and half since the iPhone 4 was released to the public, and there’s been plenty of rumours and half-truths about how the next generation iPhone will turn out.

22nd July 2011 - The Apple Vs HTC patent war continues as the US International Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled HTC infringed two Apple patents.
HTC released a statement on its website stating the judge had ruled it had infringed two of the 10 patents Apple submitted. However the decision by Judge Carl Charneski is not final; it’s subject to review by a six-member commission in Washington, where HTC has also confirmed it will fight the decision:

Its great smartphone hope, the Nokia N9, is set to arrive with a near-field communication chip, but won’t be able to act as a mobile wallet and handle payments, lacking a critical security protocol.
Getting slightly more technical, an embedded secure element or the Single Wire Protocol (SWP) is necessary for NFC to be used for contactless payments or as a ticket.
Nokia are reportedly focusing on tyhe connectivity features that NFC can bring; like streaming music to Nokia’s own Play 360 speakers, or sharing content between NFC-enabled devices.