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Samsung Blu-Ray Players Add Netflix, Pandora Services

Source: PC Magazine
October 24, 2008

On Thursday, Samsung announced new partnerships with two Internet multimedia companies for the purpose of incorporating audio/video streaming services into the company's latest Blu-ray disc players. Samsung BD-P2500 Samsung said it would partner with the online video disc rental company Netflix and the music recommendation and Internet radio service Pandora. Both will bring Internet-based multimedia streaming features to Samsung's BD-P2500 and BD-P2550 Blu-ray Disc players. Owners of the aforementioned players can now apply a firmware update that will enable near-instant ...

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National Guitar Workshop Community Network

Source: All About Jazz
October 22, 2008

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No More Payment Headaches as Gigpay Launches

Source: All About Jazz
October 22, 2008

GigPay Ltd has launched what it believes is the first payment processing service for the event industry. The company aims to handle payments between live performers and event promoters, by using a combination of credit card processing, email billing and escrow. The service, operated from gigpay.com involves helping live performers like musicians, DJs, bands, comedians or even models, to collect payment for their services by means other than cash or cheque. A performer can request a payment for a gig ...

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Lala Makes Web-Based Music Easier

Source: PC Magazine
October 22, 2008

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Twine: Track Your Interests Online

Source: PC Magazine
October 22, 2008

Newfangled search tool Twine is launching out of beta today. The service specializes in building customized vertical search silos that aggreg...yikes. Nevermind, I won't explain it that way. It's more interesting than its explanation, rest assured. Basically, Twine lets you track your interests. If you want to find out everything about Britney Spears (and who doesn't?), enter “Britney Spears" into Twine and you'll get a collection of curated, relevant search results that have been bookmarked by other Twine users. This ...

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E-Books Spur Interest, but Sales?

Source: PC Magazine
October 21, 2008

FRANKFURT - Electronic reading devices are gaining converts but are unlikely to replace the printed book and will have to compete hard with other ways of consuming digital media, exhibitors at the Frankfurt Book Fair said. Sales of electronic readers such as Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Reader have been growing fast, prompting smaller companies to introduce their own prototypes at the fair and publishers to step up the digitalization of their books. The gadgets, small and light enough to fit ...

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Survey: Slowdown Not as Bad as Dot-Com Bust

Source: PC Magazine
October 21, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO - Despite turmoil in global markets, two-thirds of senior technology industry executives polled in a new survey say the economic slowdown will not hurt them as badly as the bursting of the tech bubble in 2000. However, more than three-quarters of respondents say their business has been impacted by the financial crisis, according to the study, which was released on Monday by the law firm DLA Piper. Still, only 27 percent said they were cutting sales and marketing ...

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New Internet-Based Music Service for Businesses

Source: Elise Brown, Drummer PR
October 21, 2008

ioWorldMedia, Inc. Launches io4business Innovative New Custom Music Service for Businesses TAMPA, FLORIDA OCTOBER 21, 2008 - ioWorld Media, Inc. (OTCPK: IWDM) announced today that it has launched io4business, a new wholly-owned subsidiary that produces innovative custom music programming for businesses. io4business is a customized background music and messaging system for businesses that can be ordered online, and provides the ability and flexibility to place and/or sell in-store advertising to suppliers and vendors. io4business is especially suited for businesses with ...

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