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Gates: Vast Shift in Internet Next Decade

Gates: Vast Shift in Internet Next Decade

Source: All About Jazz

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said there will be a vast shift in Internet technology over the next decade as he met Tuesday with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. “We're approaching the second decade of (the) digital age," the software mogul and philanthropist told Lee at the start of their meeting at the presidential Blue House, according to a media pool report. “The Internet has been operating now for 10 years," Gates said. “The second 10 years will be very different." ...

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Harp Editors to Launch Blurt Online Music Portal and Digital Magazine

Harp Editors to Launch Blurt Online Music Portal and Digital Magazine

Source: All About Jazz

HARP EDITORS PREPPING NEW ONLINE MUSIC PORTAL AND DIGITAL MAGAZINE

BLURT To Launch in June With Cover Story on Joan as Police Woman

SILVER SPRING, MD. -- BLURT is coming. Scott Crawford, founder of HARP, along with Managing Editor Fred Mills and Senior Editor Randy Harward, will unveil BLURT digital magazine and the accompanying BLURT-online website in June. In addition to the Joan As Police Woman cover story, artists featured in the BLURT debut will include My Morning Jacket, Ray ...

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Formula Set for Web Music Royalties

Formula Set for Web Music Royalties

Source: All About Jazz

(AP)-A federal court on Wednesday established a formula for determining the Internet royalties owed to thousands of music composers, writers and publishers by three major online services -- Yahoo Inc., AOL and RealNetworks Inc. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers hailed the decision, estimating the guidelines could yield as much as $100 million in payments covering a seven-year period ending in 2009. The trade group, known as ASCAP, had contended that its 320,000 members weren't being properly compensated ...

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Reality Getting the Net in Neutrality

Reality Getting the Net in Neutrality

Source: All About Jazz

"How do you think they're going to get customers? Through a broadband pipe. Cable companies have them. We have them. Now what they would like to do is use my pipes for free, but I ain't going to let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it. So there's going to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they're using. ...

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Cox Enterprises to Acquire Adify, an Ad Tech Firm

Cox Enterprises to Acquire Adify, an Ad Tech Firm

Source: All About Jazz

Cox Enterprises, a media company with broad holdings in newspapers, radio and television, said Tuesday that it would pay $300 million in cash for the advertising technology company Adify. The move would put Cox in competition with companies like Google that have built up big online advertising franchises. Adify, founded in 2005, helps Internet publishers build vertical advertising networks. These are groupings of sites about specific content, like travel or business, where advertisers can buy space on all the sites ...

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Download Amos Lee's "Listen" Now on iTunes

Download Amos Lee's "Listen" Now on iTunes

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Melody Gardot - iTunes Single of the Week! | News

Melody Gardot - iTunes Single of the Week! | News

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