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News: Technology

Privacy, Facebook and the Future of the Internet

February 1, 2010

Today is the 3rd annual international Data Privacy Day and a whole bunch of companies are listed on the organization's website as participants. Google, Microsoft, even Walmart. Facebook is not listed as a participant and has stirred up a lot of controversy with changes to its privacy policy lately. Why are these corporations singing out loud ...

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News: Technology

Momentum of HTML5 the Emerging Web Standard

February 1, 2010

Why Flash Isnt Going Anywhere, iPad Be Damned. The arrival of the Apple iPad is still months away, and already the tech pundits are declaring the demise of Flash. The view is based largely on the fact that the iPad, like the iPhone, will likely not support Adobe's plug-in, but its also a result of the ...

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News: Music Industry

Sony Pictures to Lay off 450 Employees

February 1, 2010

Sony Pictures Entertainment is laying off 450 people, more than 6.5% of its global workforce, as part of a studio-wide belt-tightening move blamed on the growth of piracy and changing media consumption patterns, particularly the ongoing downturn in DVD sales. In a memo sent to Sony Pictures' approximately 6,800 employees Monday, Chairman Michael Lynton and Co-Chairman ...

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News: Music Industry

Swedish Rapper Found Guilty of Second-Degree Murder in Road Rage Incident

February 1, 2010

David Jassy, a rapper and record producer from Sweden, was found guilty Monday of second-degree murder in the death of a pedestrian he was accused of assaulting in a fit of road rage. He faces 15 years to life at a sentencing next month. Witnesses said Jassy, 35, punched, kicked and then ran over John Osnes, ...

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News: Recording

Jamie Cullum Releases "The Pursuit" & Upcoming US Tour Dates

February 1, 2010

JAMIE CULLUM LAUNCHES “ONE MAN BRITISH INVASION" OF AMERICA GOLDEN GLOBE & GRAMMY NOMINEE ANNOUNCES MARCH TOUR DATES AND RELEASE OF NEW ALBUM THE PURSUIT ON MARCH 2, 2010 English singer/songwriter/pianist/multi-instrumentalist Jamie Cullum, who has been dubbed “a one man British invasion" (Hollywood Reporter), has announced a series of US tour dates to coincide with the ...

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News: Recording

Mushroom: 'Naked, Stoned & Stabbed' Available April 27

February 1, 2010

MUSHROOM: Naked, Stoned, & Stabbed Available April 27 from 4 Zero/Royal Potato Family “Mushroom have long been knights traversing the plains and mountains of psychedelic rock." (The Wire) Mushroom, a musicians' collective based in the San Francisco Bay area, return with their first album in three years, Naked, Stoned, & Stabbed, to be released ...

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News: Award / Grant

Oscar 2010: Best Song Submissions

February 1, 2010

The 2010 Academy Award nominations will be announced on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academys Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The 2010 Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center. In the US, itll be televised live by ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Herb Alpert and Lani Hall

February 1, 2010

Herb Alpert's inner jazzman has always been integrated within something more significant: a haunting, personal trumpet signature riding atop a melange of American and/or Latin components. Yet lately, his jazz roots have finally emerged into full view with a new CD, “Anything Goes" (Concord Jazz), and an intimately-scaled show with Alpert's wife, singer Lani Hall, and ...

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News: Festival

The 2010 University of Michigan Jazz Festival "Charles Mingus Day" February 13th at the Power Center for the Performing Arts in Ann Arbor, Michigan

February 1, 2010

The 2010 University Of Michigan Jazz Festival “Charles Mingus Day" will take place February 13th at 7:30p.m. at the Power Center for the Performing Arts in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The festival announced today that Congressman John Conyers Jr. would receive the first, “University of Michigan John Conyers Jr. Jazz Advocacy Award". This award is named in ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jeremy Pelt Taking a Ride on Jazzs Main Line

February 1, 2010

The trumpeter Jeremy Pelt has spent most of the last decade as a young exemplar, traveling the postbop continuum on his own steam, at his own pace. As a bandleader he has plunged headlong into funk and dipped a toe in chamber orchestration, but the larger theme of his output seeks a footing on the bedrock ...