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Mozilla Chief Welcomes Google Chrome to Market

Source: PC Magazine
September 3, 2008

Will Google Chrome sink Firefox? Not exactly, according to Mozilla chief executive John Lilly. “More smart people thinking about ways to make the Web good for normal human beings is good, absolutely," Lilly wrote in a blog post. “Competition often results in innovation I'd expect that to continue now that Google has thrown their hat in the ring." Google announced Monday that it has been hard at work on an open-source browser known as Chrome, a beta version of which ...

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MySpace to Launch 'Musical' School Spirit Contest

Source: PC Magazine
September 3, 2008

MySpace plans to launch a contest on Tuesday to market the latest in Walt Disney Co's blockbuster franchise “High School Musical 3" in what the News Corp Internet social network called its biggest film campaign to date. Disney is hoping to build interest in the third movie in its hit television films series, and the first to hit theaters, by tapping MySpace's estimated 76 million unique users as of July, according to comScore. Some 40 percent of U.S. mothers are ...

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Google to Release Open-Source 'Chrome' Browser

Source: PC Magazine
September 2, 2008

Are Internet Explorer and Firefox ready to do battle with Chrome? Google announced Monday that it has been hard at work on an open-source browser known as Chrome, a beta version of which will be released in 100 countries on Tuesday. New features will included “isolated" tabs designed to prevent browser crashes and a more powerful JavaScript engine. “Why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive ...

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Death Taxes and Bandwidth Caps

Source: All About Jazz
August 31, 2008

Comcast's disclosure of usage caps yesterday points to what may become inevitable across the industry -- restricted, metered broadband services.

Demand [for broadband] is rising at a time when relevant supply is actually shrinking ... Elementary economics would suggest that greater pricing power is the inevitable outcome. Craig Moffett Bernstein Research cable and satellite analyst.

At a time when broadband services in the U.S. are woefully lagging behind many nations -- in terms of speed, capacity and cost ...

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Code Making Music Listenable

Source: Michael Ricci
August 31, 2008

T Bone Burnett may have Neil Young and Bob Dylan singing a new tune.

The singers are among the artists critical of digital sound. But Burnett has been developing Code, a high-fidelity audio system that he says will improve sound quality.

Artists including Neil Young and Bob Dylan have made no secret of their distaste for digital sound. But Grammy-winning producer T Bone Burnett believes he's found a way to affordably give listeners an experience akin to hearing studio master ...

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Bye-Bye, (CD) Baby!

Source: All About Jazz
August 30, 2008

From Derek Sivers, Founder of CD Baby and Host Baby There's a beautiful quote from Abraham Maslow: “Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day." You might have seen in CD Baby's 10th birthday announcement last March that I haven't worked at CD Baby since last year. In fact I've hardly been there since ...

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Online Indie Music Retailer CD Baby Acquired by Disc Makers

Source: All About Jazz
August 30, 2008

Portland, Ore. - CD Baby, an online retailer of CDs for over 242,000 independent artists, has been acquired by CD and DVD manufacturer Disc Makers for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 1997, Portland, Ore.-based CD Baby charges a one-time setup fee of $35 per CD, allows artists to set their own prices, and retains $4 of every sale while paying artists on a weekly basis. The company has to date sold over 4.5 million CDs and paid out over $83 ...

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Google Moving Forward with Yahoo Ad Deal

Source: PC Magazine
August 30, 2008

Google Inc., facing a U.S. Justice Department probe of its search-advertising partnership with Yahoo Inc., will proceed with the agreement by early October, Bloomberg said. “We are going to move forward," Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Thursday in Denver. “We are in the process of talking to the government. They've not indicated one way or the other how they're dealing with us," the news agency quoted Schmidt as saying. Google, with more ...

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