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What’s the Buzz: Google gets published; iTunes download fit for a king

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Piracy not to blame for music sales drop – report
A new study appears to disprove claims by the record industry that file sharing is to blame for the industry’s current woes.

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Royal wedding album to be released on iTunes
Washington, March 24 (ANI): Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding is set to make musical history – a recording of the ceremony will be available to download within hours of the service finishing.

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Flood of royal wedding smartphone apps hits market
SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON Not feeling the royal wedding spirit yet? It may be time to download a countdown clock to your smartphone. More than a dozen smartphone apps are offering to bring fans everything royal wedding-related wherever they are — so they can check the days and minutes until Prince William and Kate Middleton’s April 29 wedding, hoard news and pictures about them and …

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Midweek Music Preview: JUE continues, and MAO Livehouse reopens!
Once again, the week is utterly jam packed with live music. JUE Festival is still chugging along, and they’re in it to win it this Friday with some Yunnan-ese rock at the MAO Livehouse grand reopening ! Finally, the city’s venues are all back in action. Save yourself some energy, though, because we’ve also got Mongolian rockers Hanggai, local band Moon Tyrant’s CD release, and some indie rock …

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What’s the Buzz: Google gets published; iTunes download fit for a king
Google has released its own magazine, an online magazine that is. The company quietly launched a full-length, quarterly (as the name implies) online publication aimed at creating a “breathing space in a busy world,” according to Mashable . Google does not call Think Quarterly a magazine, but rather a book on its website that serves an “unique communications tool.”

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Google to Launch its Own Digital Music Service

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

New Google Music App Leaked

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

$920 Solar Pants Power Your Cell Phone, MP3 Player
(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) – If you are ever caught in the middle of nowhere, say the desert, and your cell phone or MP3 player runs out of power, you won’t have to worry if you are sporting the new solar cargo pants from Silvr Lining’s GO Collection.

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Deer Tick, ‘Christmas All Summer Long’ — Free MP3 Download
Artist: Deer Tick Hail From: Providence, R.I. Song: ‘Christmas All Summer Long’ Single: ‘Holy S—, It’s Christmas’ [ iTunes ] Sounds Like : Uncle Tupelo , Modest Mouse Listen to ‘Christmas All Summer Long’ Download: ‘Christmas All Summer Long’ (MP3) [Get Winamp] [Download Help] Next MP3

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Dell Inspiron 14R Laptop Plus Zune Player, $729
Pay full price for a Microsoft Zune MP3 player and get $200 off a Dell Inspiron 14R laptop.

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The Infant Kings, ‘Joy to the World’ — Free MP3 Download
Artist: The Infant Kings Song: ‘Joy to the World’ Album: ‘Jingle Up High, Jingle Down Low’ [ iTunes ] Sounds Like : The 5, 6, 7, 8′s Listen to ‘Joy to the World’ Download: ‘Joy to the World’ (MP3) [Get Winamp] [Download Help] Next MP3

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New Google Music App Leaked
As high-tech devices are increasing in power, they’re also decreasing in bulk. Additionally, every so often devices will combine themselves into a single medium — such as when the cell phone and PDA turned into the “smart phone.” The same thing has happened with MP3 players and mobile handsets, especially with the introduction of the [...] Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal …

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Superfish: Watch out Google Boutiques, Goggles

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

A ‘Messiah’ performance of, by and for musicians
Some of L.A.’s most illustrious singers and instrumentalists gather at a Los Feliz home every year to perform Handel’s epic arias. ‘It’s a complete pleasure and honor to do this,’ one musician says. Some of L.A.’s most illustrious singers and instrumentalists gather at a Los Feliz home every year to perform Handel’s epic arias. ‘It’s a complete pleasure and honor to do this,’ one musician says.

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A ‘Messiah’ performance of, by and for musicians
Some of L.A.’s most illustrious singers and instrumentalists gather at a Los Feliz home every year to perform Handel’s epic arias. ‘It’s a complete pleasure and honor to do this,’ one musician says. It was the day after Christmas, and Eric Castro, a lawyer who also sings professionally, was warming up his baritone by running through trills and hums. After working hard right up to the holiday …

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Award-winning “No Footing” depicts struggles of a young artist
Young, beautiful, talented Madison Parker has just graduated from Rowan University, a painter with a degree in fine arts. Diploma in hand, she smiles proudly, her eyes vivid with hope and great expectations.

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White soul singer Marie dies at 54
Teena Marie’s last album, “Congo Square,” was titled after a historical meeting place for slaves in New Orleans, featured a tribute to Martin Luther King’s widow and the song “Black Cool,” written for President Barack Obama.

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Superfish: Watch out Google Boutiques, Goggles
Have you checked out Superfish? You should if think that visual search is one of the next major frontiers in search technology (it is, by the way, in case you weren’t sure).

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Google Reveals New Zealanders Top Searches for 2010

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

Music Review: Linkin Park
On their latest album A Thousand Suns, Linkin Park took a massive detour from their signature angst-ridden radio-rock. It got a mixed reaction from fans. Despite this, and the tarps conspicuously covering the upper tiers of empty Burswood Dome seats, there were still plenty of people on hand to check out what the Californian band is about circa 2010.

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Tuesday To-Do: Eyehategod / Goatwhore
EYEHATEGOD/GOATWHORE 7 p.m., Downtown Music. $15 adv., $17 d.o.s. When I was 12, I saw a video at church about the evils of pop music — George Michael’s “I Want Your Sex” wasn’t about standard copulation so much as “soul sex,” whatever that is; Metallica, Megadeth and Motley Crue were in legion with the devil (the “m’s” had some significance I’ve forgotten); and, surely you’ve heard, KISS is an …

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Smorgasbord of music on tap
Mountain Stage and the Marshall Artists Series might be cashed for the year, but hark the herald hardcore punk, big band, gospel, funk, stoner rock, jazz and bluegrass angels are still singing this weekend.

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Google’s top 10 NZ searches for 2010
Google has revealed the most searched-for terms by New Zealanders during 2010.

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Google Reveals New Zealanders Top Searches for 2010
Google has released the most searched-for terms by New Zealanders during 2010, revealing that controversies ranked high alongside earthquakes and natural disasters.

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Warner Music Still Pining For Google. But What About Spotify?

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

Warner Music Q4 loss widens
Warner Music Group posted a wider-than-expected quarterly loss and said revenue growth in the U.K. and Italy was offset by weakness in the United States, Japan and the rest of Europe.

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Music review: Robert McDuffie and the Venice Baroque Orchestra
Music originates in the physical world. The Venice Baroque Orchestra and violinist Robert McDuffie reminded the audience of this at the Modlin Center on Monday night with visceral performances of Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” and Philip Glass’ “The American Four Seasons.” Vivaldi’s work acts a metaphor for specific sensory …

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Warner Music Group 4Q loss widens on severance
Record company Warner Music Group Corp. said Wednesday that its fiscal 2010 fourth-quarter loss widened on a large severance charge and lower revenue reflecting the continued shift from CD sales to digital music.

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Warner Music Down on Digital Shift
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Warner Music Group shares are down almost 8% in morning trading today after reporting a $46 million fourth-quarter loss, as it struggles with the transition from physical to digital in the recorded music industry. For the quarter ended September 30, the company saw a loss of $46 million, or 31 cents per diluted share, compared with a loss of $18 million, or 12 cents per …

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Warner Music Still Pining For Google. But What About Spotify?
The good news for Warner Music Group: Digital revenue growth, anemic earlier this year, has perked up a bit. The bad news: It’s still not enough to counter dropping CD sales, which continue to account for the majority of the industry’s revenue.* And while Warner, and the rest of the industry, had been hoping that Google …

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Google Juice – Best SEO book of 2011

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

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Google plans to launch online music service in India: report

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010

‘Party Like a Rock Star’ Raises Money for Music Education
Charlottesville’s Music Resource Center hosted it’s third-annual Party Like a Rock Star event. The fundraiser raises money for students who cannot afford music education.

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Dunwoody Music Festival expected to draw 25,000
Organizers are expecting a large turnout for next weekend’s second annual Dunwoody Music Festival at Brook Run Park. One unverified estimate has the number as high as 25,000 people.

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Music review: Valery Gergiev conducts the Mariinsky Orchestra at the Kennedy Center
Valery Gergiev is a conductor for our time. His is a multi-tasking, Internet-linked approach to music. He likes it loud and flashy; he loves big events; and he really prefers scheduling that other conductors would go out of their way to avoid.

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Music for Oaks Day
RUPERTSWOOD Mansion managing director Margaret McLelland invites visitors to don at hat and enjoy Oaks Day with a bit of boogie during the Hume Festival of Music.

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Google plans to launch online music service in India: report
Google Inc plans to launch an online music service in India that would enable users to search for legal music streams and downloads, the Wall Street Journal said.

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Saturday, October 16th, 2010

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Four short links: 27 September 2010 – Google Acquisitions, Good Ideas, Data Taxonomy, and Jukebox Firmware

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

Leaked AMD Radeon HD 6770 and 6750 spec sheets
Over on Chiphell there’s a leak of what purports to be the spec sheets for AMD’s upcoming Radeon 6700 series GPUs. And if they are to be believed, they look good.

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Former Kenai Hockey Player Charged With Murder
Associated Press Menomonie, Wisconsin police have charged a former Kenai high school hockey player with felony murder. Jed McGlasson was arrested for the death of a fellow University of Wisconsin- Stout student. A third student is charged with being a party to felony murder. The police say the three had an altercation in a bar early September [...]

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The Drums, ‘Down by the Water’ — Free MP3 Download
Filed under: Free MP3 Download of the Day Artist: The Drums Hail From: Brooklyn, N.Y. Song: ‘Down by the Water’ Album: ‘The Drums’ [ iTunes ] Sounds Like : Surfer Blood , Local Natives In Their Words: “Down by the Water is our tribute to our favorite girl group, the Shangri-Las . They had an inspirational hand in starting this band, and we wrote this song while on a steady diet of listening to …

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Audio book publisher Karel Černošek: selling literature as the spoken word
This week’s edition of One on One features one of the joint founders of the biggest Czech publishing house for audio books, Tympanum. The company publishes dozens of titles, not just in Czech but also in Slovak. While still a relatively new phenomenon, Karel Černošek says audio books are beginning to carve out a place for themselves on the market. Chris Johnstone caught up with him recently at a …

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Four short links: 27 September 2010 – Google Acquisitions, Good Ideas, Data Taxonomy, and Jukebox Firmware
Google Acquisition Spending Spree (Venturebeat) — Google is now on track to acquire a new company every two weeks this year. (via azaaza on Twitter) Where Good Ideas Come From (YouTube) — this perfectly describes Foo. A Taxonomy of Data Science — great first post on a new blog by data practitioners. Rockbox — open source (GPL) firmware for…

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