Toshiba enter music download market
The computer manufacturer Toshiba has ventured into the music and video download market. Toshiba Places will be accessible via web browsers on users’ computers as well as through a user interface on some Toshiba televisions.
Different ‘places’ will provide the user with options of either downloading music (in the ‘music place’), reading news articles (in, that’s right, the ‘news place’) or downloading new apps.
The music place works in cooperation with the digital music store 7digital, and Toshiba’s photo sharing platform is powered by Flickr.
As of now, some of the places are only available via a computer or a TV, with only a few working on both. Toshiba plans to create a “central hub that will merge broadcast, broadband and local networks to deliver a unified, content-centric experience to its users”.
Written by Matthias Scherer
Matthias is a journalist and writer covering the latest news in technology as well as reviewing new computer products for PC Site. After studying journalism and economics in London, Matthias worked in radio and as a music writer for various publications in the UK and Germany, covering everything from politics and music to online publishing and social media. He is a self-diagnosed internet addict, but wrestles himself away from the computer to read books by angry young men, put on punk or rap records and watch Seinfeld.
Wed, Apr 6, 2011