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Real and Sprint Partner on Mobile Music Storefront

Source: HypeBot
February 13, 2010

RealNetworks has announced an agreement to streamline the music offerings (ringtones, ringbacks and full-track music) available on Sprint phones into a unified user-friendly digital music storefront. The mobile store will open later this year. Real will leverage its end-to-end Media Entertainment Platform to manage, administer, market and deliver Sprint's digital music content. Through 86 mobile operators in 48 countries worldwide Real already offers 900 million subscribers mobile services including music; video, personalization; and messaging.

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December Stats Show Why MySpace is in Trouble

Source: HypeBot
February 13, 2010

A new analysis from Research-Write of December Comscore data illustrates why MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta was forced to step down yesterday after only 10 months. View the slide show below for more.

54% of US Internet users are on Facebook vs. 27% on MySpace

Facebook users were more engaged than MySpace users, visiting Facebook an average of 27 times in December versus 14 for MySpace

5 Reasons Google Buzz Could Fail and 7 Ways It Could Win

Source: PC Magazine
February 13, 2010

A lot of what I see in Google Buzz points to it being a hybrid of Twitter and Facebook. Sure, it's hard to see a new social network overtaking those seemingly entrenched web juggernauts, but Google is no lightweight. Buzz can either be open to the public, like Twitter, or it can be private, like Facebook. And that applies to access, as well: it's open like Twitter, with an API that lets any developer tap into it. But it's also ...

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Marco Pignataro Launches New Web Site

Source: Michael Ricci
February 13, 2010

We're proud to announce the launch of a new jazz web site by saxophonist Marco Pignataro at marcopignataro.net. Here you will find exciting news about Marco's current work in the jazz scene, an updated tour schedule, press photos, educational material by Marco, interesting links, writings, and much more. ABOUT MARCO PIGNATARO Italian saxophonist Marco Pignataro is currently the Managing Director of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute (BGJI) a new program designed to foster creativity and musicianship through a variety of ...

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Burning Question: Where's My a la Carte TV?

Source: All About Jazz
February 12, 2010

Imagine this sweet deal: Instead of paying big bucks for dozens of channels you dont watch, you get to pick only the content you want: ESPN. Dexter. Every film Jessica Alba was ever in.

OK, now forget it. Aint gonna happen! At least, not in the near future. Yes, video travels the infobahn just like any other Net traffic. And the telcos are already using this bandwidth to deliver TV differently: New services like U-verse send out only ...

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First Impressions: Official Twitter for Blackberry App

Source: All About Jazz
February 12, 2010

RIM's official Twitter app for BlackBerry devices has been rumored to be coming for the last few weeks. It was released into beta yesterday and I've been test-driving it for the last 24 hours.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it's not very good and here's why:

It's incredibly slow to load and each tab (timeline, @s, DM, etc.) has to be refreshed individually

There's no way of knowing which tweets are new and which one's are ...

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BBC Tops Investment in Online Programs

Source: All About Jazz
February 12, 2010

The U.S. continues to dominate the emerging made-for-broadband video industry, but in Europe the BBC is far and away the biggest investor in this type of content.

BBC plans online archive of every show every made, Italy gets Pre-pay 3g iPhone, Motorola ROKR E8 UK Launch, Firefox 3 “Download Day" and Googles space venture.

The U.S. and Europe spent more than 30 million ($47 million) producing made-for-broadband video content last year, a figure forecast to rise to almost $141 million ...

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LaDIDa's Reverse Karaoke iPhone App

Source: All About Jazz
February 12, 2010

LaDiDa

Got talent? Wanna impress your friends with your singing abilities? LaDiDa from Kush is a voice recording app that lets you easily create songs on your iPhone. If youre a fan of Microsfts Songsmith program you will love the LaDiDa app for your iPhone. Just pick a style and tempo, sing into the mic to have LaDiDa automatically loop the background music that matches the song and chords youre singing perfectly. Think of LaDiDa as a reverse Karaoke app, ...

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