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News: Technology

In Face-Off With China, Google Blinks

In Face-Off With China, Google Blinks

Google said it will stop automatically redirecting web searchers in China to an uncensored portal in Hong Kong as it hopes to convince Beijing to renew its operating license in the world's largest Internet market. Google's unexpected announcement comes ahead of Wednesday's deadline when the Internet giants license is up for renewal. Its clear from conversations ...

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News: Technology

E.U. Criticizes Mobile Phone Roaming Charges

Mobile phone operators in Europe are charging close to the highest roaming fees allowed, three years after price caps were first imposed, according to data released Tuesday by the European Commission. The findings raise the likelihood that the commission will recommend next year that the European Unions price caps be extended, rather than be allowed to ...

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News: TV / Film

Copyright Ruling Worries Hollywood

Copyright Ruling Worries Hollywood

The irony is hard to ignore: Just as Hollywood was hailing a White House plan to fight piracy last week, a federal court was handing down a ruling that many in entertainment see as an invitation to infringe. It's even triggered suggestions that Congress will have to step in if the decision isn't reversed by a ...

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News: Recording

Beach Boy Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin

Beach Boy Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin

'Match made in heaven': Brian Wilson and George Gershwin. Brian Wilson says he chose the George Gershwin songs “that I thought I could do justice to." The album title alone is enough to make pop-music pundits drool, pairing two of the 20th century's most celebrated tunesmiths: Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin. The recording itself, which arrives Aug. ...

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News: Technology

ACLU Study Highlights U.S. Surveillance Society

ACLU Study Highlights U.S. Surveillance Society

Welcome to the surveillance society. That's what the American Civil Liberties Union concluded Tuesday with a report chronicling government spying and the detention of groups and individuals “for doing little more than peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights." The report, Policing Free Speech: Police Surveillance and Obstruction of First Amendment-Protected Activity, surveys news accounts ...

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News: Technology

Verizon iPhone Coming in January?

The rumor that won't die about the phone that never seems to lose adoration flared up again Tuesday. Apple's iPhone could be available on Verizon Wireless in January, according to a report in Bloomberg. Hopes that Apple's coveted smartphone will break from the shackles of its exclusive U.S. agreement with AT&T have percolated in the form ...

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News: Music Industry

Playboy Sues Drake for Copyright Infringement

Drake has emerged as one of raps hottest acts. The rapper Drakes breakthrough single, “Best I Ever Had," which went from a mixtape to a popular EP, didn't get to be the best all on it's own, according to a copyright infringement suit filed by Playboy Enterprises. In the suit, which Playboy filed in a California ...

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News: Music Industry

Tom Hess on Underrated Music Industry Contacts

As a musician, making contacts in the industry is extremely important.  Touring guitarist-turned-music-mentor Tom Hess points out that some of the most valuable contacts an artist can make come from an often overlooked group of music professionals: Concert promoters. While Hess has come up with some questionable advice in the past (hiring hot chicks to attend ...

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News: Obituary

Corey Allen Actor Played Gang Leader in 'Rebel Without a Cause' Dies

In 'Rebel,' Allen played Buzz Gunderson, who challenges James Dean to a 'chicken run.' In 1984, Allen won an Emmy for directing an episode of 'Hill Street Blues.' Corey Allen, an actor-turned Emmy Award-winning director who earned a slice of film immortality in the 1950s playing the doomed high school gang leader who challenges James Dean ...

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News: Interview

Marco Benevento: Music is Still Secret

By: Ron Hart Marco by Michael Benevento Few musicians have defined the state of piano jazz in the 21st century quite like Marco Benevento. Whether alongside longtime partner drummer Joe Russo as the Benevento/Russo Duo, as the leader of his own trio with bassist Reed Mathis and drummer Andrew Barr or playing in such groups as ...


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