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iPhone Data Roaming Switch is Problematic

Source: Michael Ricci
October 8, 2009

AT&T customers should make sure their iPhone's data roaming switch is set to off before traveling overseas to avoid sky-high roaming charges. Here's how to check: Click Settings. Then click General. Then click Network. This will take you to a screen with the data-roaming switch, which can be slid on or off.

Is your iPhone set to roam? No. The switch is off, as it's supposed to be. Not sure. How do you check again?

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AT&T Relents, Opens iPhone to Skype, Voip

Source: All About Jazz
October 7, 2009

Bowing to openness pressure from the FCC, AT&T renounced on Tuesday its opposition to internet telephone calls that use the iPhones 3G data connection.

In short, Skype on the iPhone is now OK by AT&T, the company said in letters to Apple and the FCC.

AT&Ts change of heart comes just after the FCC controversially announced that it was planning to extend internet openness rules to mobile networks. The wireless carriers are fighting back, arguing that wireless networks are not ...

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Jazz & Blues Florida October Online Edition Posted

Source: Michael Ricci
October 6, 2009

The October edition of Jazz & Blues Florida has been posted online at

Many of Florida's seasonal jazz series are announced in this issue as well as new CD releases, expanded music programs in venues, and other matters of musical interest.

Our listing section contains current information on hundreds of venues from Key West to Pensacola.

This month's featured artists, all playing in Florida in the coming month, include:

Winning Spin - Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussein (The ...

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Myspace Music Shares Strong Stats, Adds Australia

Source: HypeBot
October 5, 2009

MySpace Music shared some strong U.S. August stats yesterday.

From Nielsen Netview -

MySpace Music unique users have grown 169% since launch in September 2008 and 1472%, year-over-year The site has nearly tripled its unique users since launch 12 -17 year olds are 2.3 times more likely than the average net user to visit MySpace Music People age 18 - 24 year olds are 2.2 times more likely than the average net user to visit MySpace Music ...

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New Ad Supported Music Downoad Site freeallmusic.com Gets Seed Funding

Source: HypeBot
October 5, 2009

PLUS A Q & A With CEO Richard Nailling

Free All Media has secured seed funding to launch its FreeAllMusic.com ad supported free digital music service in late 2009. The initial round includes founding investor, Scott Barber, CEO of Reform Records, and Free All Media's CEO Richard Nailling. FreeAllMusic.com will offer ad supported songs without DRM for free download.

The FreeAllMusic pitch is that all previous ad-supported download services have been too cumbersome, too restrictive, or too limited in content. ...

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Techs Awesome Contributions to Rock n Roll

Source: All About Jazz
October 2, 2009

Many of musics greatest moments hinge on shifts in technology. Rock music undoubtedly owes its legacy to a number of factors (the relative affluence of the Baby Boom generation, the tumultuous political climate of the Cold War and remarkable advances in the field of recreational psychotropic substances, to name a few), but one element was absolutely crucial:

TECHNOLOGY

Rock simply wouldn't have rocked without electric guitars, Marshall amp stacks, the Vox Box, amplifiers capable of projecting the music ...

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Google Pulls Pirate Bay from Search Results

Source: All About Jazz
October 2, 2009

Walk the Plank The homepage of Pirate Bay disappeared from Googles search results Friday, after Google allegedly received a DMCA takedown notice targeting the site.

The move is unexpected because, while the Pirate Bay is rife with pirated material, the sites spare landing page contains no content to speak of just links, a logo and a search box. By law, DMCA notices are targeted to specific infringing content.

The notice came from Destined Enterprises, according to Chilling Effects.org, ...

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Notes from the Net: A Free Miles Davis Download; a Lester Bowie Tribute; the "Death" of Jazz, Continued; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 30, 2009

Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest.* Let's start with our usual helping of Miles Davis-related news - specifically, some more details about the upcoming 70-CD set reissue of all of Davis' albums on Columbia/Sony.Next up, the blog Hidden Track has a free ...

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