According to the research firm Gartner, the time has come when the music recorders will have to more focus on downloads than on CDs.

Mark McGuire, who is an analyst at Gartner, says in this connection, “To survive in this competitive setting, different music labels will have to adopt a strategy of ‘digital first’, as some big labels didn’t succeed in stopping piracy as well as getting nice business in their CD businesses.”

If these different music labels release their new stuff through digital services instead of just focusing on CDs, they have higher chances to achieve the desired results.

“The industry is practicing old promotional and marketing strategies that focus mainly on the launch of CDs and this practice is somewhat difficult to give up,

“But it is a fact that a large of immigrants and digital natives are looking for easier ways and great choices. However, it can’t be that physical CDs would totally wipe out from the scene,” he added

The lists have been separated by whether applications are free or paid. Then, they are separated on the basis of overall look and then by every main application category (entertainment, games, utilities, music and social networking). While overall top applications shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, who has taken occasional glance at built-in top download pages of iPhone, there are certain remarkable names concealed in the data that are separated categorically.

Top Paid Apps (Overall):

Koi Pond, Texas Hold’em, Moto Chaser, Crash Bandicoot: Nitro Kart 3d, Super Monkey Ball, Cro-Mag zally, Enigmo, Pocket Guitar, Recorder, iBeer

Of the names that are there on this list, the only surprising fact is the rank of Super Monkey Ball, which could have been higher. When App store was launched, it seemed to everyone that Super Monkey became the face of gaming on iPhone. What might have hindered its chances for a higher rank is that the game was expensive at the time of launch. However, it was a great show for Pangea Software. They secured two positions on the list with Cro-Mag Rally (6) and Enigmo (7).

Top 10 Free Downloads (Overall) are Pandora Radio, Facebook, Tap Tap Revenge, Shazam, Labyrinth Lite Edition, Remote, Google Earth, Lightsaber Unleashed, AIM, Urbanspoon.

What was interesting in this list was the entry of Google Earth. The application was launched in App Stores only couple of months back for iPhone and it cracked into the Top 10 for free downloads.

Top Paid Games are Texas Hold’em, Moto Chaser, Crash Bandicoot : Nitro Kart 3d, Super Monkey Ball, Cro-Mag Rally, Enigmo, Air Hockey, Bejeweled 2, Flick Bowling, Line Rider iRide.

Top Free Games are Tap Tap Revenge, Labyrinth Lite Edition, Sol Free Solitaire, iBowl, Pac-Man Lite, Touch Hockey:FS5, Cannon Challenge, Audi A4 Driving Challenge, Sudoku, reMovem. Although some doubted its top position in this list, Tap Tap Revenge had fairly constant buzz surrounding it and deserved its top position. However, the surprising element was the position of Sudoku, which went way down to number 9.

Top Paid Entertainment are Koi Pond, iBeer, iChalky, Face Melter, iFish, TouchScan, What’s on TV, Pocket Piano, Sketches, OneTap Movies. A surprising entry in the list at #6 is ‘TouchScan’. It is a 99-cent application, which scans minds of 2 people at the same time and compares the recorded brain waves. They do it by way of a fake on-screen fingerprint scanner.

Top Free Entertainment are  Remote, Lightsaber Unleashed, i.TV, BubbleWrap, Movies, iDoodle 2 lite, Showtimes, Now Playing, Scribble, Crazy Pumpkin. Presence of ‘Crazy Pumpkin’ in the list proves that how much impact holiday-themed applications can have with users. It puts faces of Jack-o-lantern on the screen of your iPhone. It managed to get adequate swing from coverage around Halloween for getting barely into the top 10.

Top Paid Utilities are Units (crossroad solutions), A Level, Air Mouse, Fake Calls, Voice Record, Clinometer, Spell Check, Speed Dial, FileMagnet, iNetwork Speed Test. Top Free Utilities are Flashlight, myLite Flashlight, Say Who – Dialer, Units (TheMacBox), Compass Free, Alarm Free, A Free Level, Molecules, Speed Test, myLighter.

Presence of ‘Units’, in both free and paid utilities is good, although they are two dissimilar applications, TheMacBox & Crossroad Solutions. Top Paid Social Networking are MobileChat, BeejiveIM,  Quip, Rooms – Your Mobile Chat Client, Twitterrific Premium, Flutter, Twittelator Pro, mBoxMail, Secrets, hiCard – Suite.

What is impressive in this list is the presence of BeeJiveIM. The application not only made its way into Top 10 paid social networking, but landed at a remarkable #2. I’m not shocked with this result, as the quality of this application is quite good. However, its price of $16 was too high. In a market, where number of users complains with 99-cent applications to be too expensive, performance of BeeJive is actually shocking.

Top Free Social Networking are Facebook, AIM, Myspace Mobile, IM+ Lite, Loopt, Fring, Palringo IM, Earthscape, Twitterrific, Avatar. Facebook getting one up on Myspace isn’t an unexpected thing, as the former has been performing brilliantly in the field of social networking recently.

Top Paid Music are PocketGuitar, Drum Kit, Ocarina, Pianist, Band, Tuner Internet Radio, Beat Maker,  Guitar Toolkit, Harmonica, Guitarist. Top Free Music are Pandora Radio, Shazam, AOL Radio, Midomi, Mini Piano, iheart Radio, MixMeister Scratch, FlyCast Mobile Radio, Last.FM, DigiDrummer Lite.

There’s one interesting thing to note in both this lists, although this one will hardly make any sense. Majority (9 of 10) in the paid applications were for making music, whereas majority (7 of 10) in free apps is targeted at listening to music

Sony Ericsson has always been claiming itself to be an eco friendly company or it merely wants to test the limits of its fans as the company has managed to gather 100 odd fans to walk from London to Liverpool. The fans will be reaching to this year’s MTV European Music Awards.

The main intention here is to find all those fans that really care about music and this strange fanwalk will include 100 people. Out of these 100 people, 10 of them from the UK will walk over 400 kms in the span of 9 days.

Most importantly, they will be blogging all the way on their journey from their handsets.

These fans will be tested on their knowledge and their musical skills. The best music geek out of these will be able to present an award at the European Music Awards themselves. Isn’t that exciting enough?

Contestants were required to submit their videos and images with a short description of why were they worthy of getting one of those 10 places to take part in the walk. The registrations were made from all across the UK and you can find out more about these fans from www.fanwalk.com.

To bring high-definition television content to its iTunes Store, at last, Apple has signed a deal with all almost all the major television studios.

Apple has already introduced HD TV shows during the last month to iTunes, and NBC was its only partner at that time, but now CBS, Fox, ABC all have been included in the deal.

So, users get ready to enjoy Lost, Prison Break, Grey’s Anatomy and many other shows from the store.

But stop! The same HD content you can enjoy from their standard-def brethren, while saving more than one dollar on each episode. Here, you will have to pay $2.99 for each episode. Similarly, if you want to enjoy HD content for free, Hulu.com is a good source where many prime time shows are being played for free.

Currently, only the US users will make the most of the deal and once again no consideration for the UK customers regarding HD content.

Nicola Slade, who is editor of UK music industry news service Record of the Day, said: “No doubt, it’s a great move for consumers as it will help them listen to far more songs than they could listen before.”

Slade added, “The association with Amazon’s MP3 download store would serve as a key that will be there as a serious competitor for Apple and iTunes.”

“It is, indeed, the very first download store that has the ability to reduce Apple’s MySpace share.”
“The service will make consumer realize that there is another world outside of iTunes and the services like 7digital and other smaller services can pick up more business from them as well.”

Joe Wilson, who is lecturer in Popular Music at the University of Gloucestershire, said: “This move from MySpace to offer music through its network is to promote it as a radio service for free music, but you have to pay to transfer to MP3 players,”

Nokia announced that Warner Music Group’s diverse catalog of new stars and well-known artists will be available all around the world at Nokia Music Stores and Nokia’s Comes With Music service that is considered a unique way for people to find out and enjoy music.

According to Tero Ojanpera who is executive vice president and head of the Nokia Entertainment and Communities business, “Warner music is considered a pioneer in producing new models of digital music business and it’s an honor for us that they are supporting Nokia Music Store as well as Comes with Music.”  Tero further adds “Nokia’s Comes With Music service offers people to have great content, provides a wider exposure to existing and new fans to the artists and promises new profits to all the Nokia dealers.”

It is expected that Comes with Music will be available during the second half of 2008 on some versions of Nokia devices in chosen areas. It will allow user to have access to a year of exploring and downloading the music of their choice with a single purchase. It will also allow users to keep their selections in their constant library.

The Nokia Music stores all around the world will also offer Warner Music Group content. Nokia Music Store allows users to enjoy music on their Nokia phones or PC with innumerable tracks from well-known artists and free labels. With duo effects of its download and streaming services, The Nokia Music Store authorizes fans to connect music of their choice as they want to connect it.

Just on their palms, users can browse for new music, search their favorite songs, artists and albums and can get suitable recommendations. There is an option to add songs in the wish list for future purchase and similarly it also allows purchasing songs immediately and downloading directly to the mobile device.

The Nokia Music Stores are accessible in Australia, France Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, Finland and the United Kingdom. Nokia is also planning to expand these Music stores in some other countries.

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With the current version there is nothing you can’t do. Now just begin your counting and ready to be astonished with each count.

At a time you can play 2 octaves of an 8 note scale

In the range of a regular keyboard you can change starting note where you want
You can change octaves, keys and tonal modes

Resonance of a sound, timbre of a sound can also be changed; a whammy bar can be utilized to be pitched and last but not least you can rock it out with a video game toy.

Now let me tell you about its cost $ 60 for Guitar Hero controller, $ 13 for Freeduino , $10 for different electronic bits, $ 8 for wires/cables and $14 for plexi.

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