Technology News

Comcast Begins Testing Net Neutrality

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2008

Comcast will begin testing what the cable concern has described as a “protocol agnostic" approach to managing bandwidth traffic during high-peak periods

Selected customers in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and Warrenton, Virginia, are expected to receive e-mails highlighting the program. The 30-day tests are expected to begin early June. “Unless you are an extremely heavy user of internet resources (which is not likely) you will not notice any change to your internet experience during this test," Mitch Bowling, general manager of Comcast ...

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New Service Offers Jazz Video For $350

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2008

Attention Musicians and Record Labels There is now a cost effective way for musicians and labels to utilize web video as a marketing tool. JazzEPK.com offers promotional videos starting at $350. A Jazz EPK is a 3-5 minute video used to promote a recording featuring audio excerpts, photos, and info about the artist, music and personnel, which is posted on the web to market the music and reach the largest possible audience. Jazz EPK was created by Bret Primack, aka, ...

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The iPhone's Next Frontier: Porn

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2008

Apple may be golden because of the iPhone, but the soon-to-be-updated device is also increasingly the source of forbidden fruit.

Steve Jobs' company is keeping a civil, if embarrassed, silence on one of the potentially most lucrative and controversial uses of its handheld jewel: porn. The technological feats of the 3G iPhone are key to the coming pornucopia. To date, mobile porn has consisted largely of still images, racy text services and “moan tones," which are sultry-sounding ringtones. In Europe ...

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Big Screen Giant Imax Eyes Digital Future

Source: PC Magazine
June 20, 2008

Imax Corp. is going digital. The giant of the large-screen format is beginning one of the biggest initiatives in its 40-year history: switching from 70mm film to a digital system of projection. Next month, the company will roll out the first three digital Imax installations with exhibitor AMC Entertainmenttwo in Washington and one in Baltimore. Three more will debut in August in Philadelphia. Imax expects to have digital systems deployed at 50 sites by year's end, with the goal of ...

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Ray Mantilla: The Complete Percussionist

Source: All About Jazz
June 18, 2008

On Sunday, June 22nd Tony V / Latin Perspective will feature a 75 min presentation, on WRUW 91.1FM in Cleveland, streaming live at wruw.org from 6-8 pm EST that will cover the life, music, and musical career of Ray Mantilla, the complete percussionist. Ray Mantilla is considered by many as one of the most respected percussionists in both the jazz and Latin idioms. Throughout his career, that spans over fifty years, he has performed and/or recorded on more than 200 ...

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Esbjorn Svensson Trio Video Tribute

Source: All About Jazz
June 16, 2008

e.s.t. is a phenomenon: A jazz trio, which sees itself as a pop band that plays jazz, which broke with the tradition of leader and sidemen in favor of equality within its members, which not only plays jazz- venues but also venues usually reserved for rock bands, which uses light effects and fog-machines in their live shows, which gets a whole audience to sing-a-long with jazz-standards as eg. Thelonius Monk's “Bemsha Swing", is a trio that goes beyond the scope ...

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You're Invited to the Concord Music Group's Collector's Corner!

Source: All About Jazz
June 12, 2008

With labels such as Fantasy, Specialty, Prestige and Stax, the scope of the Concord Music Group catalog is as deep and eclectic as your beloved public radio station left of the dial and as vast as the greatest neighborhood indie store. The quandary now is where to go to find a collection of Jerry Garcia's oeuvre with Merl Saunders or to find Soultrane on vinyl without having to take out a second mortgage or trolling online until your fingers turn ...

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Concord Unveils "Collector's Corner" Website

Source: On Target Media Group
June 12, 2008

With labels such as Fantasy, Specialty, Prestige and Stax, the scope of the Concord Music Group catalog is as deep and eclectic as your beloved public radio station left of the dial and as vast as the greatest neighborhood indie store. The quandary now is where to go to find a collection of Jerry Garcia's oeuvre with Merle Saunders or to find Soultrane on vinyl without having to take out a second mortgage. Well, record collecting has just turned a ...

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