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Produced and hosted by Jon Gordon, Future Tense brings you the latest technology topics in daily five-minute capsules. From electronic privacy and digital democracy to spam and computer worms, Future Tense keeps you up to date on the rapidly changing world of technology.
Future Tense is heard in the United States during broadcasts of the CBC's As It Happens.
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A new iPod Nano. New iPod Touch. New ZuneHD. It's a good time to be in the market for a new portable music player. Or a head scratching time, if you have trouble making a choice, like I do.
Guest: Donald Bell, CNET
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Scientists at the University of Rochester are working on a different kind of encoding that promises to make sound files 1,000 times smaller than MP3s.
The new method is not a recording technology. Instead, it recreates music in a computer based on what it knows about the real-world physics of an instrument and its human player.
Researchers say the real benefit is expressiveness, not file size.
This story originally aired April 10, 2008
Spotify is Europe's hottest Internet property, and the free, ad-supported music streaming service is coming to the U.S.
To succeed Spotify will probably have to convert more users to premium services, according to Robert Andrews of PaidContent UK.
Today we feature part two of our conversation with Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis of public radio's Sound Opinions.
Today we feature a conversation with Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis, hosts of American Public Media's Sound Opinions program, regarding the recording industry's relationship with digital technology.
Kot is author of the new book Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music.
Next week in Minneapolis Jammie Thomas, a single mother of two from Brainerd, Minnesota, is scheduled to on trial for copyright infringement for the second time.
A jury found her guilty in 2007, ordering her to pay $220,000 in damages for illegally distributing 24 songs by the likes of Aerosmith, Green Day and Guns N' Roses over the KaZaA peer-to-peer network. But a judge subsequently threw out the conviction.
Guest: Nate Anderson, Ars Technica
A new Zune is on the way. It will feature high definition video and HD Radio, a multi-touch screen, plus Wifi and a Web browser.
Microsoft has not announced a price for the Zune HD, which is due this autumn.
Guest: Dwight Silverman
Once-promising Internet music service Spiral Frog, which attempted an ad-based business model, has ceased operations.
Guest: Greg Sandoval, CNET News.com
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has begun a campaign to persuade the U.S. Copyright Office to extend an exemption from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on the unlocking of phones from their networks, as well as "jailbreaking," or tweaking phones so they'll run blocked programs.
CDs are losing ground but will still account for a significant percentage of music sales five years from now, according to a new report by Forrester Research.
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MySpace Music, which allows users to listen to major label songs for free, debuted late last month, and has already streamed one billion songs. That amounts to about eight songs for each of 120 million MySpace members.
"MySpace Music lets you listen to pretty much every song ever recorded, and it still sucks," writes Farhad Majoo on Slate.
Music CDs are beginning to lose out to digital downloads and streaming -- but soon we'll have another choice: albums on fingernail-sized memory cards.
Electronics company SanDisk, four major records labels, and powerful music retailers Wal-Mart and Best Buy have unveiled a plan to sell MP3-format music on microSD cards, which fit inside most phones. The albums will not be copy-protected and will include a USB adapter to allow them to play on computers.
