Authors Guild: ‘To RIAA or Not to RIAA’ - Wired News

Creating a digital catalogue of the worlds’ words might be the Holy Grail of intellectual empowerment. Yet building that library in the clouds would be allowed without the rightsholders’ consent — which the Justice Department and others contend

D.C. Punk Vets Record Prog-Rock Song to Promote Novel - Washington City Paper
Note: This post requires a disclosure as vast and sprawling as the song it is ostensibly about . Some people record six-minute-long prog-rock epics because they want to infuse Gilgamesh with the power of electric guitars. And others do it because

Authors Guild Disagrees with Justice Department Stance on the Revised - Mediabistro.com
In a memo to membership today, the Authors Guild disagreed with the U.S. Justice Department’s new stance on the revised Google Books Settlement–a new kink in Google’s quest to digitize millions of books online. Yesterday the Department of Justice

Justice Department Once - Mediabistro.com
In a memo to membership today, the Authors Guild disagreed with the U.S. Justice Department’s new stance on the revised Google Books Settlement–a new kink in Google’s quest to digitize millions of books online. Yesterday the Department of Justice

Authors Guild: We don’t want to be the RIAA - CNET News
The Authors Guild agreed to a controversial settlement with Google because it feared repeating the mistakes that the music industry has made in dealing with digital works, it said Friday. With that in mind, many have wondered why the Authors Guild

Albums to CD’S to MP3’s - Tucson Citizen
I caught myself saying recently that I did not own a certain collection of albums. The truth is I have not owned an “album” in a very long time. As much as I squawk about modern technology, my music remains on 4 external hard drives on my

Wait, iPad’s like a big iPod Touch? Yep - San Francisco Chronicle

With all the hype swirling around the iPad, this description might come as a bit of letdown. You mean it’s a big iPod Touch? Basically. But that’s good in many ways, especially when you consider how groundbreaking the iPhone and iPod Touch are. The

Review: iPad is more than just a big iPod - Traverse City Record-Eagle
The iPad comes with Apple’s new iBook software, which opens up to reveal a realistic-looking wooden bookshelf stocked with all the titles in your e-book collection. I quickly noticed some limitations, though. The iPad’s operating software is based on

Apple’s IPad May Take Year to Be Breakout Product (Update1) - BusinessWeek
With the iPad’s price below the $750 he anticipated, “perhaps it could sell more than we thought,” he said yesterday. Apple’s iPod and Amazon.com’s Kindle sold only 1 million units in the first year before going on to become bestsellers, he

iPad Thoughts on cost and iPad 3g plan - Gather.com
The other iPad criticisms may come with the price. At the lowest model costing $499, it’s not much more than the iPod Touch’s biggest model. For the added price, you merely get a bigger touchscreen, some more apps capability and a digital reading

Q&A: Napster ex-CEO Chris Gorog - Billboard Business News

On January 6, the man who led the Napster digital music service for the last 10 years, Chris Gorog, announced he was leaving the company , along with president Brad Duea. There were conflicting reports at the time about whether his departure was

OiNK Administrator Cleared of Charges - Phoenix New Times
For those not in the know, file-sharing is a pretty big way of life for some music fans. Shawn Fanning pushed the practice into prominence in the late 1990s with his super-slick software Napster (maybe you’ve heard of it). After Satan’s Lovechild

Dave Morin Leaves Facebook - AllFacebook
Dave Morin, who first joined Facebook in 2006 to help with the launch of the Facebook Platform, is officially leaving the company to create a new startup with the creator of Napster, Shawn Fanning. This is a huge loss for Facebook, as he was one of

10th Anniversary of Napster This Month - Zeropaid
Some may not know it, but June is an interesting month for file-sharer’s. This year, June marks a major milestone for file-sharers. It was June, 1999 when Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker released the first version of Napster – an application that

Campaign vs. Internet piracy gets a boost - BusinessWorld Online
France welcomed the new year with a controversial law that seeks to cut down illegal downloads by suspending Internet access among those found guilty of committing the crime for the third time. A controversial legislation, the Creation and Internet

Faded Theory Donates all Proceeds to Haiti Relief - YAHOO!
Lending a hand to the relief efforts in Haiti , Faded Theory will donate all proceeds collected from the mp3 sales of their first CD, Mr. Fantastic to the Red Cross for the remainder of 2010. (PRWEB) January 21, 2010 — Lending a hand to the relief

Beware the geek bearing hi-tech gifts - Times Online
IN just a few days’ time, a thin bald man who came back from the dead will finally uncover the secret of everything. No, I’m not talking about the final season of Lost, but I am talking about how a lot of people may well watch it. Steve Jobs

Facebook Rising Star Dave Morin Quits To Start Company With Napster - The Business Insider
Dave Morin, senior platform manager at Facebook and a rising star at the company, is leaving to found his own company with Napster creator Shawn Fanning, according to a post on his personal blog. He provided no further details about the nature of the

Enjoy Your Favorite Music Freely Without Any Difficulty - PRLog (free press release)
PR Log (Press Release) – Jan 22, 2010 – Maybe you wanna enjoy your favorite music anywhere and you need an excellent Audio Ripper software to help you to convert between popular audio formats. Maybe you have ever been annoyed that your favorite

Harlem - Hippies (new album / MP3) - Popmatters.com

This is Harlem’s second album. They are from Austin, Texas, and they play garage rock. They are notable enough to be posted about on many popular music websites, so you can be sure that they acquit themselves admirably in their chosen genre, but

The Sale of Goods Act says that your MP3 player must be fit for - PRLog (free press release)
PR Log (Press Release) – Jan 07, 2010 – If you’ve ignored the manufacturer’s warnings and have been leaving the player out in direct sunshine and wearing it in the bath, then you probably haven’t got much of a case. But if the player has been

Samsung dives into 3-D, e-reader, MP3 worlds - CNN
Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) — Samsung dove headfirst on Wednesday into a number of technology trends already making waves at the Consumer Electronics Show. In a whirlwind press conference, the electronics company downplayed the impact of the recession

Product Review: Nano Plus Mp3 Player - Associated Content
So what is the Zen Nano Plus Mp3 player, and what do I need to to make an informed buying decision? Well the Zen Nano Plus is a wonderful mp3 player in a bite size. You see the player is only about the size of a lighter and yet holds over eighteen

Samsung’s MP3 player offers transparent touchscreen display - CNET Asia
LAS VEGAS, USA –Transparent is still in apparently, with the company taking a leaf out of the books of two certain Korean and Japanese rivals’ see-through phones, and showing off a digital music player in similar vein. The IceTouch YP-H1 from

Judge sets jury verdict aside as unreasonable - DailyTech

Microsoft is once again making headlines in a high-profile patent infringement case. This time the patent infringement case in question is the long-running legal proceedings between Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent. The case in question has to do with a

T-Mobile announces Samsung SGH-t659 basic slider feature phone - MobileBurn
T-Mobile has announced the Samsung SGH-t659 feature phone, a 3G slider device with basic messaging and multimedia offerings. Featuring HSDPA data connectivity, the phone should access web pages fast on its HTML browser. Users can take pictures and

Research and Markets: Comprehensive Review of Pediatric Dentistry - PR Inside
Research and Markets ( www.researchandmarkets.com/research/fbe0bc/comprehensive_revi : ) has announced the addition of the ” Comprehensive Review of Pediatric Dentistry : ” training to their offering. the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry (ABPD

At home in country - The Chronicle Herald
Pictou County singer-songwriter Dave Gunning performs tomorrow night at Casino Nova Scotia in Halifax,. It’s the first stop on an Atlantic Canada tour to promote his new album, We’re All Leaving. •Sept. 20, 8 p.m., Astor Theatre, Liverpool. $20

Business disruption that’s ‘good enough’ - Infoworld
There’s an article in the current issue of Wired called ” The Good Enough Revolution ” in which author Robert Capps describes how various low-tech solutions have unseated much more complex products. He gives an example of how Pure Digital’s Flip

Hands On with Archos’ Android Internet Tablet - PC Magazine
Last year, consumer electronic manufacturer Archos introduced the “Archos 5 Internet Tablet.” The 4.8-inch touchscreen device could record and play videos, MP3’s and browse the Web. On Tuesday, the company launched a new version of the tablet that

Virgin Invades The Old Riot Hyatt for the Sunset Strip Music Festival - Jaunted.com
Celebs that showed up and worked the red carpet for the start of the three-day rock event on the Strip included Chris Cornell; legendary music producer Lou Adler (yes, father to Cisco); The Donnas; Caridee English; Taryn Manning;the Swedish “sleaze

Furtado: ‘Spanish helps express emotion’ - Digital Spy
Nelly Furtado has said that the Spanish she uses on her new album helps her express her emotions better than English. Furtado told Metro : “I’d been working on Portuguese and Spanish music for a while. I really like Latin pop’s melodies and it allows

Off the record? - Boston Phoenix
Pity the album. After a half-century of embarrassingly public body issues, our essential rock unit has not entered the new millennium looking very healthy. EPs are way more in vogue, MP3s have intangibility on their side, and 12-inches just sound

Kodak EasyShare W1020 - Mac Central
Kodak’s W1020 digital photo frame stands out thanks to its image quality. The 10-inch frame, which displays at a 16:9 ratio, produced very good color accuracy in our tests. In addition, it retained a commendable amount of detail across highlights

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