Samplebase, a new website that claims to offer thousands of high quality, production-ready Loops, Phrases, and Multisampled Instruments, has announced two sample-playback synth engines, Satellite (free for all Samplebase users) and Satellite Pro a application for Macs and PCs, that works as a stand-alone program or as a plug-in in AU, VST (Universal Binary on...

Freecom has announced the MusicPal, a wireless digital Internet radio and MP3 player. The MusicPal can connect to 5000 Internet radio stations via Wi-Fi and doesn’t require a direct connection to a PC. You can connect it to a PC wirelessly to stream MP3′s and WAVs, a nice touch if you want to use the built in alarm clock to wake to a particular song....

Sony BMG recorded a net loss of $8 million on sales of $851 million in its fiscal second quarter ended Sept. 30. The number compares with a wider net loss of $39 million on sales of $948 million in 2006′s fiscal second quarter. The company attributed the 10.2% drop in sales to the declining of the physical music market and to fewer major artist releases in...

The Pirate Bay has announced that they will resurrect OiNK in short order. As we reported last week, British and Dutch authorites shut down OiNK last week, a private BitTorrent tracker that specialized in pre-release albums. Pirate Bay is readying BOiNK.cd for the new site. However, the original OiNK.cd destination, which displayed an anti-piracy message after...

Just when you thought you had everything… I Want One Of Those is now offering the Funtrak Mini Paintball Tank, a scaled down armored vehicle for paintball warfare that will probably give the owner a minor advantage in his local paintball league. The tanks, which take about three months to build, and are made to order by Funtrak Ltd, a UK concern, and come...