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The Latest Facebook Music Rumors

Source: HypeBot
February 5, 2010

Traffic and Facebook is soaring and increasingly artists and music marketers are finding it a great place for social networking with fans. All this activity and still Facebook does not have its own music service leaving room for a plethora of outside music applications such as iLike to fill the void.

But rumors continue to fly that something is in the planning stages. After all, every major social site has embraced music as a way to attract and retain users. ...

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Athletes Confused by Olympic Social Media Rules

Source: All About Jazz
February 5, 2010

American skier Lindsey Vonn, one of the potential stars of the 2010 Winter Olympics, told her nearly 35,000 Twitter followers that she would not be posting to the social network until after the Games were over, perhaps based on a faulty understanding of the International Olympic Committees rules on blogging and social networking. Vonn wrote that because of the Olympic rules (blackout period) I will not be able to post any updates from now until march 3rd. Sorry, it bums ...

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ISP Defeats Hollywood Copyright Claims

Source: All About Jazz
February 4, 2010

A leading Australian internet service provider was cleared of copyright allegations Thursday when a federal judge ruled against Hollywoods lawsuit that iiNet was responsible for infringing BitTorrent data traveling its pipes. The Australian Federal Court decision siding with the countrys third-largest ISP was a legal blow to worldwide efforts to make ISPs liable for the unlawful behavior of their customers. I find that the mere provision of access to the internet is not the means of infringement, Federal Court Justice ...

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Royalty Deadline for H.264 Extended, but It's Still Bad for the Web

Source: All About Jazz
February 4, 2010

As if the webs video codec issues werent complex enough, the group that controls the licensing and royalties for the H.264 video codec has announced that H.264 will remain royalty-free until the end of 2016. One the surface it sounds like a good thing at least until 2016, youre free to post H.264 videos on your web site without paying royalties to MPEG-LA, the controlling body. But after 2016, MPEG-LA could charge you whatever it wants even an Austin Powers-style ...

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AOL Posts a Profit

Source: PC Magazine
February 4, 2010

AOL Inc posted a quarterly profit and beat Wall Street's revenue expectations, even though the weak advertising market and the Internet company's dwindling subscriber base dragged revenue down from a year ago. AOL, which became an independent company once again in December after former parent Time Warner Inc spun it off, said net income for the fourth quarter was $1.4 million, or a penny a share. This compares with a loss of $1.9 billion, or $18.52 a share, a year ...

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AT&T Gives Green Light to Sling TV over 3G

Source: Michael Ricci
February 4, 2010

Remember the Great Sling Spat?

A year ago, Sling Media, a subsidiary of EchoStar, introduced a nifty application for the Apple iPhone that allowed users with a Slingbox at home to watch and control their home television signal from their handsets. The only problem: AT&T said that such a bandwidth-intensive video service would overwhelm its network, so it limited the application to work only over an iPhones Wi-Fi connection. TV lovers and techies worldwide cried out in anguish. But all ...

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Will iPad Actually Chill Development of Mobile Web Pages?

Source: All About Jazz
February 4, 2010

The iPhone is the face that launched a thousand mobile websites-actually, more like 326,600, according to a recent study by Taptu, a mobile search engine. That number is growing by leaps and bounds in various areas of the web, such as shopping and services, the survey concludes.

By the end of 2010, we forecast that the mobile touch web will have grown to more than 500,00 and to one million sites by the end of 2011. Steve Ives, ...

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Best New Gear for Musicians, Fans

Source: All About Jazz
February 4, 2010

If youre a musician, walking the floor of the NAMM Show is like taking a trip to Candy Mountain.

All the latest music gear gets trotted out at the massive industry expo in Anaheim, California. Were talking five or six football fields worth of the newest guitars, amps, basses, drums, mikes, keyboards, sousaphones, electric oboes think Guitar Center cranked up to 11. Its pretty intense. What follows is a list of the coolest, most creative stuff we saw at this ...

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