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Universal Music Group, the largest of the major recording companies, plans to launch a “Hulu-like” video portal, a source close to the company told CNET News. The new venture would offer professionally produced music videos as well as other original

Wal*Mart pulling the plug on their music DRM Server - Crunchgear.com
6 months after Wal*Mart jumped onto the music peddling party bus back in August of 2007 make the jump to 100% DRM-free music. Awesome, right? Unfortunately, any music purchased during that 6-month window before the switch is still at the mercy of Wal

Wal-Mart Pushes Customers Off DRM Fence - Wired
“I’ve come up with an invention that is going to scare the music business,” the stoner sampled at the beginning of Kid Koala’s hyper-rocking “Slew Test 2″ slurs. “Like, the whole music business is destroyed when this invention hits the street.” That

Wal-Mart Tells DRM-Infected Music Downloaders to Burn it or be Gone! - Mashable.com
Just twelve days into the future (Oct 9), people silly enough to think that a megalith retailer like Wal-Mart couldn’t sustain a DRM server for folks who opted to purchase music through its website laden with copyright protection software (that it

Read all ‘”MP3 players”‘ posts in Crave - CNET News
Click for more pics. (Credit: Sony) Features come and go in the rapidly evolving MP3 player space. One that has enjoyed fluctuating popularity is the built-in USB interface, which lets you connect a device directly to a computer without a cable. This

10 Xbox 360 tricks Microsoft won’t tell you - Techradar.com
If you’ve got one of the component/composite dual video cables – the one that comes in the box with most 360s – you can have your console display its gamey goodness on two TVs simultaneously. The trick is to flick the cable’s switch to Standard

Kate Miller-Heidke’s honeymoon with fame - News.com.au
Miller-Heidke, 26, wed long-time musician partner Keir Nuttall late last year, celebrating their nuptials with family and friends at a Brisbane barn dance. They honeymooned in southeast Asia, co-writing all 11 tracks on Curiouser. “Songwriting was

Kanye West moves album release forward - Guardian Unlimited
“I CHANGED MY ALBUM TO NOVEMBER SOMETHING CAUSE I FINISHED THE ALBUM AND I FELT LIKE IT,” he wrote on his blog. “I WANT YALL TO HEAR IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE This was a disappointment to the controversy-starved music press, who had been hoping for

Companies joining to push music on memory cards - Globe and Mail
Gordon Murray from Canada writes: Wasteful packaging it will probably be. Then again, (offering recycled) chips loaded with files that are locally stored might still be too much like teenagers of old sharing files. The only difference might be the co