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Experimental Tech Turns Your Coffee Table into a Universal Remote

Source: All About Jazz
August 15, 2009

Stock up on coasters. A new technology combines the coffee table with a universal remote so that people sitting around the table can tap on a screen to change the channel, turn up the volume or dim the lights.

CRISTAL (Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living spaces) is a research project in user interface that attempts to create a natural way of connecting with devices. The system offers a streaming video view of the living room ...

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iPhone App for Jazz Trumpeter Mark Rapp: Jazz Industry First!

Source: Michael Ricci
August 12, 2009

Paved Earth Music and theConspiracy, LLC have released a jazz industry first! This is the first iPhone application created specifically for Mark Rapp providing a hip and effective way to communicate directly with fans while providing a unique platform to distribute engaging content. The Mark Rapp iPhone App can be downloaded for free at the iTunes App Store. It features a streaming music player with purchase options; watch latest videos; photo gallery, pulls Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, News feeds and more; ...

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CMX: Yet Another New Digital Album Format

Source: HypeBot
August 11, 2009

All four major label groups are working together to create a new format for the digital album tentatively titled CMX. Scheduled for a partial roll-out in November, the new digital format would include liner notes, lyrics, artwork and videos along with the mp3's in a single download.

The labels apparently approached Apple about involvement in the project and were rebuffed. Now Apple is also working on its own new album format dubbed Cocktail that will apparently be tethered to a ...

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New DJ Shadow Site

Source: JamBase
August 11, 2009

DJ Shadow Announces Re-launch of djshadow.com New Site Offers Exclusive New Releases And Digital Downloads

DJ Shadow Internationally acclaimed DJ, producer and recording artist DJ Shadow announced the re-launch of his website djshadow.com. In addition to offering previously unreleased content, exclusive deluxe albums and mixes and the ability to purchase digital and physical product in one shopping cart system, the site introduces an empowering new platform that connects Shadow directly with his fans. Shadow's store will now sell ...

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Despite Hype Most Teens Don't Use Twitter

Source: HypeBot
August 11, 2009

Twitter's growth and the accompanying hype has encouraged music marketers to find innovative ways to use the service to help artists to stay hyper-connected with their most loyal fans. But a small Morgan Stanley sampling last month claimed that Twitter adoption was not equal among all age categories. Now a far greater group, Nielson's 250K strong U.S. Net Ratings panel came to a similar conclusion: teens - usually the first to drive most social networking trends - tweet far less ...

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Mozilla Moves on to Firefox 3.6's Developer Release

Source: PC Magazine
August 11, 2009

The paint is hardly dry on Firefox 3.5. That hasn't stopped the Mozilla developers from charging ahead on the next point upgrade, the developer release of Firefox 3.6, code-named “Namoroka". As that version number indicates, the release is truly intended just for developers and testers, and it's far from being ready for mass consumption. The next Firefox is built on the very slow-to-change-version-numbers Gecko 1.9.2., which adds a few more capabilities for Web developers. It also uses an even-faster TraceMonkey ...

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U.S. Recession Should End This Quarter, Economists Say

Source: PC Magazine
August 11, 2009

The worst U.S. recession since the Great Depression will probably end in the third quarter, but uncertainty exists over the speed and duration of the economic recovery, according to the most recent survey of private economists. The Blue Chip Economic Indicators survey of private economists released on Monday showed about 90 percent of the respondents surveyed believe the economic downturn will be declared to have ended this quarter. This upbeat assessment followed recent government data showing gross domestic product (GDP) ...

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iPhone App for Jazz Trumpeter Mark Rapp: Jazz Industry First!

Source: Two for the Show Media
August 10, 2009

New York, NY -- Paved Earth Music and theConspiracy, LLC have released a jazz industry first! This is the first iPhone application created specifically for Mark Rapp providing a hip and effective way to communicate directly with fans while providing a unique platform to distribute engaging content. The Mark Rapp iPhone App can be downloaded for free at the iTunes App Store. It features a streaming music player with purchase options; watch latest videos; photo gallery, pulls Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, ...

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