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Omnifone Plugs Musicstation "Alternative to Piracy"

Source: HypeBot
February 18, 2009

Music is taking center stage as all sectors of the mobile industry search for ways to stand out in a cluttered marketplace during this week's GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. But music services provider Omniphone is using the event to tout a new service aimed squarely at the very non-mobile desktop PC.

ISPs and cable companies, who are under increasing governmental pressure to fight piracy, are being sold MusicStation Next Generation as an immediate “alternative to downloading music illegally ...

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The Personalized Music Experience: History and Evolution

Source: HypeBot
February 18, 2009

The Evolution Of Social MusicView more presentations from prodigalson29.

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor

The Evolution of Social Music

In Todd Rundgren's presentation, Time for the Music Industry to Evolve, he notes that with the introduction of the Sony Walkman Tape Player to the marketplace in 1979, it was the first personalized listening experience that people had. Previous to that if you wanted a personalized listening experience

you had to do ...

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The Digital Natives: A Generation of Broken Robots (Part One of Five)

Source: HypeBot
February 18, 2009

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor

The Broken Robots

I am a broken robot and don't know why. Yet what most profoundly perplexes me is whether or not I, myself, am the one that's broken or if it's the system itself that's actually broken. If the correct connotation is that the system is broken, how to we determine if it was broken before I came into the world or if, due to the behaviors that I developed in my digital ...

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Obama Signs Stimulus Bill, Launches recovery.gov

Source: PC Magazine
February 18, 2009

President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law Tuesday, and his team launched a Web site – Recovery.gov – that is intended to track the progress of the stimulus package. “The size and scale of this plan demand unprecedented efforts to root out waste, inefficiency and unnecessary spending," Obama said in a video message. “Recovery.gov will be the online portal for these efforts, publishing information about how the funding secured for the legislation will be spent in ...

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Develop Your Own PR List

Source: HypeBot
February 18, 2009

FOR THE INDIE IN ALL OF US: Hiring an experienced music publicist may be one of the best investments that a band can make. But between projects and tours or when the money just isn't there, developing your own PR list runs a close second.

Spend an evening gathering the names, addresses and emails of all of the music journalists and radio programmers in your region that matter to your genre of music. The big papers and stations should always ...

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New Wrist Watch Cell Phones -Time to Call the Future

Source: All About Jazz
February 18, 2009

Calling Dick Tracy LG's chic, wearable phone is a follow-up to the prototype that LG introduced at CES 2008 and includes a number of upgrades.

We don't have flying cars yet but it appears the future has arrived anyway as a new wrist watch cell phone market emerges. LG showed their new GD910 watch phone at CES and now Samsung announced a watch phone prototype of their own. The guys at Engadget spotted the GT-S1100 on display at ...

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Facebook Does an About-Face on Privacy

Source: All About Jazz
February 18, 2009

Behold! The two faces of Facebook: It's such a smart young company. It's such a slow learner.

Both faces peeked out from the wreckage of the privacy imbroglio that wracked the social networking site this week. Yes, it was asinine, a tempest in a teapot, but it underscored a more fundamental problem that continues to plague Facebook — the world's most popular social network is simply not learning from its mistakes. (Read “Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies.")

Quick recap: ...

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Webasting Royalty Negotiations Derailed by Disagreement, Recession

Source: All About Jazz
February 18, 2009

Webcasting royalty rates enacted by the US Copyright Board in March of 2007 have proven too steep even for powerhouses like AOL and Yahoo

Now, negotiations between the webcaster trade group Digital Media Association and former RIAA division SoundExchange have broken down completely. For music fans, this is bad news, because it will likely limit legal online listening options even further.

The main sticking point, according to Digital Media Association executive director Jon Potter, is the question of whether large ...

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