TECHNOLOGY NEWS
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| Technology Helps Music Publisher Reap Profits From College Fight Songs Alabama football fans can buy pens, ties, video games, phones and socks that play the Crimson Tide's fight song, and a New York firm is humming the tune all the way to the bank. |
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| PiraBoogle Proves Torrent Search Ease Just in case you thought that the RIAA was making a little headway or that it was still somehow possible to slow unauthorized downloading...here comes, PiraBoogle, a somewhat tongue-in-cheek mash-up of Google and Torrent sharing websites. |
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| Top Indie Artists Embrace AmieStreet's Fan Driven Pricing Cat Power, Interpol, The New Pornographers, Sigur Rós, Pavement, Yo La Tengo, Devendra Banhart, Belle and Sebastian and more join fan-driven pricing movement. |
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| Facebook Adds Music & Film Launch Pages Facebook has just launched two new "Pages" for music and film designed to lure more musician and film makers and ease the way for them. |
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| Free On Demand Music Spurs Last.fm Growth Free on demand music is officially a hit. |
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| WMG Digital Shift: Nash Replaces Zubillaga Warner Music Group announced this morning that effective June 1st, Michael Nash will be promoted to Executive Vice President, Digital Strategy and Business Development, succeeding Alejandro (Alex) Zubillaga. |
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| Subscriber Numbers Narrow Sirius 4Q Loss Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. says a surge in subscriber numbers and lower costs helped narrow its fourth-quarter loss. |
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| Rebuttal: The Future Of Ad Supported Music WWW MUSIC & ADS (Hypebot) -- We posted a guest commentary by Bill Houghton which concluded that ad-supported music is not scalable. Marc Cohen who blogs at Ad Supported Music Central disagrees and we in |
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| Novel Offered For Free Online Charles Bock's "Beautiful Children, a best-selling debut novel about characters adrift in Las Vegas, is the latest book to be offered for free online. |
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