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Apple Event to Focus on Reinventing Content, Not Tablets

Source: All About Jazz
January 27, 2010

The teaser for Apples press event, Come see our latest creation, has a double meaning. Content creators, not gadget freaks, will be the biggest target of Apples Wednesday press conference.

Although most of the speculation has centered on a tablet device that will likely be announced at the event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs probably has bigger plans in mind.

Apples goal is to offer a new platform for content creators to reinvent books, magazines and online content in addition to ...

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Forget the Tablet-Apple Needs to Rebuild iTunes

Source: All About Jazz
January 27, 2010

The time is ripe for a reinvention of iTunes, which has grown into a sort of micro-Microsoft within Apple in terms of its bloated size and slow operation.

And its not even making money, according to Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer, who said on Monday of the iTunes Store, were running those a bit over break even, and that hasnt changed, adding that the iPhone and iPod Touch platforms could help push iTunes into the black. The Apple tablet will run ...

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Apple Announces iPad

Source: Michael Ricci
January 27, 2010

New tablet splits difference between smartphones, laptops. Today Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, the company's hotly rumored tablet device. Demonstrating the iPad at an event in San Francisco, Jobs showed how it could be used for e-mail and Web browsing, viewing photos, managing calendars and contacts, listening to music, viewing video, and more. Senior Vice President Phil Schiller showed off a new version of iWork, specifically designed for the new device. When the iPad begins shipping at the ...

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D.I.Y. Making You Crazy? Try Outsourcing.

Source: HypeBot
January 26, 2010

Outsourcing - using an outside contractor to do some of your daily or weekly tasks in order to free up time to do more important things like run your business. Tim Ferriss, whose bestselling The 4-Hour Workweek has just been updated and expanded, suggests hiring offshore help to save money. In this short video Greg Rollett of Gen-Y Rock Stars translates outsourcing to the music industry.

Music Outsourcing from Greg Rollett on Vimeo. ...

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Wilco Offer Downloads for Haiti Donations

Source: JamBase
January 26, 2010

WILCO OFFER DOWNLOADS IN EXCHANGE FOR HAITI DONATIONS

Wilco Wilco is currently offering two shows for download, asking in return for a minimum donation of $15 to either OXFAM or Doctors Without Borders in support of the Haiti relief efforts, if one is so able. And if you can't afford the $15, give what you can before you take what is offered.

The shows are:

07.13.09 - Keyspan Park - Brooklyn, NY 11.04.09 - HMV Forum - London, ...

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Apples Got a Lot Planned for It's Wednesday Press Event

Source: All About Jazz
January 25, 2010

What to Expect From Apples Tablet Unveiling While the invitation come see our latest creation is broad and vague, its fairly obvious that the biggest news will be the widely anticipated tablet.

Its about time. Tech observers have been anticipating an Apple tablet for several years, churning out report after report of rumors and speculation. And Apple has been considering tablet designs since at least 1983. Now, perfectionist CEO Steve Jobs finally seems satisfied enough with the product ...

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Conditions Imposed on Live Nation, Ticketmaster

Source: Michael Ricci
January 25, 2010

The U.S. Department of Justice has imposed major conditions upon Live Nation and Ticketmaster in approving the companies' merger, moves that Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney said would have the effect of lowering ticket prices.

Shares in both companies jumped in trading Monday after reports surfaced earlier that the merger would be approved.

Varney said Ticketmaster would have to license its ticketing software to competitor AEG and sell its subsidiary Paciolan to Comcast Spectacor. Paciolan sells tens of millions of ...

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Tony Foster's "In Between Moods" Tops Jazz Critic's List of "Top 15 Albums of 2009"!

Source: Michael Ricci
January 21, 2010

Jazz critic Paul J. Youngman says “These are some of my favorites from this past year. They are listed in no particular order. The common thread, they all have a strong jazz sensibility, they're cd's that I want to play over and over again." Making that list of 15 from 2009 is Tony Foster's debut trio release entitled In Between Moods. The album features the Canadian-born Foster at the piano with Vancouverites Joe Poole on drums and Russell Botten on ...

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