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OSLO, Norway, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, music streaming service WiMP launches its new service WiMP DIY. WiMP DIY makes it beneficial for unsigned artists to release their music through streaming. The service has no fees and artists get a full 70 percent of revenues. With the DIY service, WiMP aims to get unsigned bands and artists out to a broader audience. WiMP DIY is a continuation of WiMP's NewSound campaign, which highlights new, local music. Music...

OSLO, Norway, March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Music streaming service WiMP differentiates through its editorial profile with local editors in each market, always aiming to inspire users to discover new music and old favorites. Adding to the local flavor, WiMP now also introduces curated global campaigns, showcasing more of all the great music among the millions of tracks. The first campaign 'Forever Young' focused on the enormous back catalogue and specifically the music of...

BERLIN, Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- WiMP has selected Gracenote MusicID® to power the music recognition feature in its iPhone and iPad Apps, available today in Germany, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The addition of Gracenote MusicID makes it easy for WiMP subscribers to identify a track by simply holding their phone to wherever music is playing. From there, they can start a playlist or share with friends on Twitter and Facebook. The music experts at Gracenote have analyzed and...

OSLO, Norway, October 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- More people have access to a music streaming service, more listen to music through streaming, more are willing to pay and an increasing amount believe that streaming will be the dominant way to play music in 2-4 years. The youngest generation, those under 30 lead the way. New numbers are from a survey conducted in June for music streaming service WiMP, who runs the survey twice a year in its current markets, this time...

OSLO, Norway, March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Music streaming service WiMP launches today for users of the Sonos Wireless HiFi System in Scandinavia. WiMP for Sonos contains the entire editorial content of WiMP, making it even easier to listen to music in high quality everywhere in the house. WiMP was the first music service worldwide that ran in beta in the new Sonos Labs, from December last year, and has already proved a success as a significant amount of users are...

OSLO, Norway, January 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Music streaming services are gaining ground fast in the Scandinavian countries and revenue to the music industry is increasing. A market survey conducted by Norstat for music service WiMP in January 2012, shows that the proportion of Norwegians who have access to a music streaming service has increased from 37 to 56 percent in the last six months. For the first time, Norway has surpassed Sweden in this statistic - in Sweden during...

OSLO, Norway, January 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2011, the number of WiMP-users increased explosively and with it also usage of the service. In Norway, WiMP registered a five-fold increase in the number of streams per day from January to December and Swedish daily streams doubled over the last six months of the year. WiMP's editorial team published more than 500 varied playlists in each country and thus delivered new daily content for its customers. The users gained even more...

OSLO, Norway, February 19, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aspiro and Platekompaniet in cooperation with Telenor today launches its music streaming service at the "by: Larm" festival in Oslo. Results from a user survey reveals overwhelmingly positive response from test users; 94 percent are satisfied with the service and 80 percent are willing to pay. At "by: Larm" today, the details surrounding the launch will be presented. WiMP has streaming deals with over 20 content providers...

Human-computer interaction is undergoing a revolution, entering a multimodal era that goes beyond, way beyond, the WIMP (Windows-Icons-Menus-Pointers) paradigm. Now European researchers have developed a platform to speed up that revolution. We have the technology. So why is our primary human-computer interface (HCI) based on the 35-year-old Windows-Icons-Menus-Pointers paradigm? Voice, gestures, touch, haptics, force feedback and many other sensors or effectors exist that promise to...

By George Galloway I HAD never quite realised the dark side of John Travolta's first star outing, Saturday Night Fever. I had insisted on the whole family choosing Staying Alive with platforms, medallions, strobes, globes and disco heaven rather than the diet of brutality on offer in competition. It's like Grease, I told my daughter - music, dancing, teenage angst. But it was angst Tarantino-ed before the great man existed. The Bee Gees music apart, the film has few redeeming features and...