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Rumor Round-Up: Everything Weve Heard About the Next iPhone

Source: All About Jazz
May 24, 2009

This month, the Apple rumor volcano erupted with purported details of the next-generation iPhone.

Various blogs claim receiving tips from informed sources about features in the highly anticipated handset, such as a magnetometer (digital compass), a video camera and a speedier processor.

Here, we round up every rumor thats appeared about Apples next iPhone, which many are betting will be announced June 8 at the Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco. Were also accompanying each rumor with a percentage rating ...

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JazzYourAss.com Relaunches with New Design!

Source: All About Jazz
May 23, 2009

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Time Magazine Names 10 Top Tech Failures and Music Grabs 3 of Them

Source: HypeBot
May 23, 2009

What Are Your Top 10 Music & Music Tech Failures? Time Magazine named it's 10 Biggest Tech Failures Of The Last Decade, and music and music related industries manage to grab three of the top spots. YouTube - Big doesn't mean profitable and its estimated that the company would have to triple its revenue just to break even. Time doesn't mention it, but the cost of licensing music - one of its flagship ...

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CD Baby to Add Single Song Downloads

Source: HypeBot
May 23, 2009

One complaint about CD Baby's popular indie digital download distribution service has been the inability to sell single song downloads. That's about to change alongside a major site redesign schedule for summer launch. From the blog:

“One of the main improvements we're absolutely thrilled about is the addition of single song downloads on cdbaby.com. Just like with full album pricing, you'll be able to charge whatever you want for individual song downloads (and each track can be priced differently!)

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In Germany Widespread Spying is Back This Time by Corporations

Source: Michael Ricci
May 23, 2009

SEARCHED: “I never could believe that Deutsche Telekom would use their data in this way, never," said Lothar Schroeder, a union representative whose phone records were searched.

Hundreds of thousands of employees have had their cellphone, e-mail and computer records secretly searched. Companies say they did it to expose misconduct.

Reporting from Berlin -- Growing up in West Germany, Lothar Schroeder never knew that terrible sense of violation suffered by people in the communist East at the hands of the ...

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FCCS Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts

Source: All About Jazz
May 22, 2009

You may not know it, but if you have a wireless router, a cordless phone, remote car-door opener, baby monitor or cellphone in your house, the FCC claims the right to enter your home without a warrant at any time of the day or night in order to inspect it.

Thats the upshot of the rules the agency has followed for years to monitor licensed television and radio stations, and to crack down on pirate radio broadcasters. And the commission ...

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Jazz.Next Guidelines: New National Program Supporting Technology in the Jazz Field

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2009

Baltimore, MD -- Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation announces the availability of guidelines for Jazz.NEXT, a new national jazz initiative designed to encourage the application of technology in innovative approaches to developing audiences; communicating with the public; marketing, distributing and selling the work of jazz artists; and building a more robust jazz infrastructure better positioned to meet the challenges of a fast-changing marketplace. Jazz.NEXT is designed to foster creative thinking that may result in the development of new models to help ...

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Deals Pump New Life into Project Playlist (Updated)

Source: HypeBot
May 21, 2009

TotalMusic Acquired and Sony ATV And EMI Publishing Sign On

(UPDATED) Project Playlist has yet to complete the required quartet of major label deals, just lost its CEO to MySpace, and is laying off some employees, but two new deals show that the popular service is still very much in the game:

COMES WITH PLAYLIST - The company has acquired the assets of TotalMusic, a shuttered Universal and Sony BMG owned company that had originally been ...

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