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Jazzwise Magazine Goes Digital

Source: All About Jazz
September 17, 2008

The UK’s biggest selling jazz publication Jazzwise magazine in partnership with leading digital subscription company Exact Editions, has launched a high quality monthly digital edition. Identical to the printed version the digital edition also benefits from fully searchable (and printable) PDF pages.

While each new edition of the magazine will be available online each month from the minute the new issue hits the news stands, digital subscribers will also have access to all previous month’s issues for the duration of ...

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Best Buy to Buy Napster for $121 Million

Source: PC Magazine
September 16, 2008

Electronics retailer Best Buy announced Monday that it will acquire online music service Napster for $121 million. Best Buy will acquire Napster's 700,000 digital entertainment subscribers, its Web-based customer service platform, and mobile applications, Best Buy said. The deal, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter, has been approved by the Napster board of directors, and Napster CEO Chris Gorog will remain with the company after the acquisition is complete. Best Buy has no plans to move the ...

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Myspace Music to Start with Major Ad Sponsors

Source: PC Magazine
September 16, 2008

NEW YORK - News Corp's MySpace, the world's largest social networking site, said on Sunday its long-expected MySpace Music joint venture with three major music labels will launch with four major sponsors underwriting the costs of streaming free music to millions of MySpace users. MySpace said McDonald's, Sony Pictures, Toyota and State Farm will power access to be to a range of new music services by sponsoring a mix of free downloads, song playlists, and personal music players. “With MySpace ...

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Yahoo Plans to Open Yahoo Music to iTunes, Others

Source: PC Magazine
September 12, 2008

SUNNYVALE, CA - Yahoo Inc plans to open its online music site to feature information about songs and artists from outside services such as Apple Inc iTunes or Amazon.com, an executive said on Thursday. “We are going to completely open up Yahoo Music in the next few weeks," Scott Moore, the executive in charge of Yahoo's media businesses, told reporters at a briefing at the company's Sunnyvale, California, headquarters. At the meeting, Yahoo executives discussed the range of ways that ...

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Google Invests in Satellite 'Net Firm

Source: PC Magazine
September 12, 2008

Google announced Thursday that it will invest in a company that intends to provide high-speed Internet access to developing countries via satellite. The search engine giant will contribute an undisclosed amount of money to O3b Networks, which is looking to provide fiber-like Internet services by utilizing medium-orbit satellites. “This means data can be quickly transmitted to and from even the most remote locations such as inland Africa or small Pacific islands," Larry Alder, a Google product manager, wrote in a ...

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St. Louis Jazz Notes Jazz Calendar Updated

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 11, 2008

Be advised that yr. humble & harried editor has just about completed an extensive update of the St. Louis Jazz Notes Calendar.Among the additions are everything that' s been announced so far about the 2008-09 musical lineups for Jazz at the Bistro, the Sheldon Concert Hall, the Touhill Performing Arts Center, and New Music Circle, as well as fall schedules for the Jazz at Holmes and Kemper Museum series at Washington University and the St. Louis Jazz Club. ...

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Why Does Texting Cost so Much, Senate Asks

Source: PC Magazine
September 11, 2008

The chair of the U.S. Senate's antitrust panel sent a letter to four top mobile phone companies on Tuesday asking them to explain what he said were a doubling in the price of text messages in three years. Sen. Herb Kohl, chair of the antitrust subcommittee and a Wisconsin Democrat, wrote to Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc, Sprint Nextel Corp and T-Mobile to express concern about “what appear to be sharply rising rates your companies have charged to wireless phone customers ...

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Apple Unveils New iPods, Genius Playlists, HDTV, NBC

Source: All About Jazz
September 9, 2008

Apple Inc. emphasized its leadership in the digital music market this morning at an event in San Francisco, as CEO Steve Jobs introduced new models of its most popular iPod music players, as well as a new version of the company's iTunes media management software. The revised version of the iPod Touch and iPod Nano, as well as iTunes 8 all include a new feature called “Genius," which Apple touts as an easy way to create playlists based on the ...

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