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News: Performance / Tour

Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore at McCabe's

March 31, 2010

This weekend was all about triumphant rap, parking-lot emo and deep South minimalism. But in the tiny back room of McCabe's on Friday night, Daniel Martin Moore and Ben Sollee made a much quieter, but maybe more insistent, statement of modern musical identity. The easygoing singer-songwriters, both Kentucky natives, collaborated on February's “Dear Companion," one of ...

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News: Obituary

June Havoc Child Vaudeville Star and Sister of Gypsy Rose Lee

March 31, 2010

June Havoc, an actress and former child vaudeville star whose early life with her sister -- future burlesque stripper Gypsy Rose Lee -- and their ambitious stage mother was portrayed in the hit Broadway musical “Gypsy," has died. She was 97. Havoc died Sunday of natural causes at her home in Stamford, Conn., said her caregiver, ...

News: Technology

Lawmakers Ask FTC to Investigate Google Buzz

March 31, 2010

Lawmakers are urging the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate complaints that Google's Buzz social networking service breached consumer privacy. In a letter to FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz, 11 lawmakers from the House Energy and Commerce Committee asked the agency to look into allegations that Google Inc. disclosed personal information without the consent of its users ...

News: Technology

Apple to Produce Verizon iPphone in September

March 31, 2010

As many would expect, Apple is developing an iPhone upgrade to debut this summer, according to The Wall Street Journal, but more surprising is the rumor that a Verizon iPhone is in the works as well. WSJ cites sources who were briefed on a CDMA-compatible iPhone being manufactured by Pegatron, a Taiwanese manufacturing subsidiary of Asus. ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Paul McCartney to Play Hollywood Bowl March 30 & 31

March 31, 2010

If you thought you heard chatter about Sir Fab's return to Southern California this morning on KLOS and elsewhere, your ears didn't deceive: Paul McCartney is embarking on a new jaunt -- strangely dubbed the Up and Coming Tour 2010. That will kick off March 28 at the Jobing.com Arena in Glendale, Ariz., then head to ...

News: Technology

US Concerned over Australia's Internet Filter

March 31, 2010

The United States has raised concerns with Australia about the impact of a proposed Internet filter that would place restrictions on Web content, an official said Monday. The concerns of Australia's most important security ally further undermine plans that would make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among the world's democracies. “Our main message ...

News: Technology

HTML5 for iPad Won't Kill Flash, but Could Change Apps

March 31, 2010

Publications, media companies and web developers have a new way to provide video on the Flash-free zones that are the iPhone and the impending iPad: using HTML5 to stream video within the Safari browser. Brightcove, which provides an online video backend system for several websites including Wired.com, said Monday that it will help media companies and ...

News: Technology

Browse Apple's App Store in Facebook

March 31, 2010

iPhone owners hoping to make the process of browsing applications more social will be happy to know that an Apple App Store apphas launched on Facebook. The app, which was developed by social-media company Virtue with some help from Apple's iTunes team, allows users to browse the App Store's entire 170,000- plus application directory from within ...

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News: Technology

Analysts Ask if the iPad Can Live up to its Hype

March 31, 2010

When the Apple iPad goes on sale on Saturday, most of the major questions surrounding the device will have been answered, save for one: can it live up to the hype? Apple fans have breathlessly awaited Apple's entry into the tablet computer market. Since the company unveiled the iPad in late January, investors have jumped on ...

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News: Technology

In Spain Internet Piracy is Part of the Culture

March 31, 2010

Picasso and bullfighting are cultural touchstones in Spain. Now add Internet piracy. The unauthorized downloading and streaming of movies and television shows from the Web is a growing problem for the entertainment industry around the world. In a few key countries such as Spain, however, it has become an epidemic that is forcing movie studios to ...