Saturday - December 20, 2008
Friends don't let friends download drunk. Why? Because when you do, you are left wondering how in hell "The Very Best of Dan Fogelberg" got on your iPod. Trust me -- It's worse than waking up and not being able to find your dress. And DWI -- Downloading While Intoxicated -- is rampant this time of year, what with all the Christmas parties, holiday revelry and general seasonal debauchery. Let's retrace the steps: You stagger home from a soiree, hop on the computer to check your e-mail,and suddenly your lone working brain cell thinks of a song you heard earlier, and you must find it.
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Wednesday - December 17, 2008
New York Gov. David Paterson has proposed a 4 percent tax on digital music downloads and other "digitally delivered entertainment services." The "iPod Tax," as it's become known, is just one of many new taxes the governor has proposed in an effort to close the state's multibillion-dollar budget gap.
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Sunday - December 14, 2008
I remember watching video from the Lunar Module as it approached the Moon's surface back in 1969. I was awestruck. There, on my mother's huge 15-inch black and white TV, I was watching real footage of a real spacecraft from Earth, piloted by real men, land on another world. You have to understand that up until that time everything NASA and the astronauts were doing had existed only in the realm of science fiction.
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Monday - December 8, 2008
Apple might be unfairly blocking rival software makers who want to sell music for its iPhone, according to some rivals and a technology rights group. The iTunes store accounts for four out of five songs sold on the Internet in the United States and is becoming more important as CDs fade. A milestone was reached last month when Atlantic Records announced digital sales had surpassed CD sales.
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Saturday - December 6, 2008
Imagine being a Chicago Public Schools student and having Rickie Lee Jones, the Staple Singers or Bo Diddley belting out songs alongside you at a school assembly? Boasting musicians that also include Benny "King of Swing" Goodman and mega-Grammy Award winning rapper Kanye West, city schools alumni have put a major stamp on popular music during this century and last.
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Tuesday - November 25, 2008
Talks to put The Beatles' catalog on Apple's iTunes online music store have stalled, former Fab Four member Paul McCartney told the BBC. The Beatles is one of the few big acts left whose music is not available on iTunes, but the settlement of a trademark dispute between Apple and The Beatles' company Apple Corps last year was seen as finally clearing the way.
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Friday - November 21, 2008
There's a lot of great Apple-focused news hitting the blogosphere this week, including rumors that Apple's next OS X version, Snow Leopard, could hit in the first quarter of 2009 -- and that Apple may be waiting on Intel to deliver Core 2 Quad processors for its next revision to the iMac line.
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Friday - November 7, 2008
MySpace, the popular online social network owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., could develop a digital music player in the future, pitting it against Apple's hot-selling iPod. However, there are no immediate plans to make or sell such a device, MySpace cofounder and chief executive Chris DeWolfe said at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Thursday.
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Friday - October 17, 2008
The iTunes store has had various fits and coughs over the last few years as content providers from the music, movie and television industry battled it out with Apple over delivery and pricing quibbles. However, the fall network TV season is now intact -- and in the full glory of high definition.
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Thursday - October 16, 2008
After Tuesday's launch of the new MacBooks, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook and Phil Schiller sat on high stools on stage to answer questions. Asked about Blu-ray, Jobs said, "You know, Blu-ray is a bag of hurt." That's probably more of a positioning statement for Apple products and strategy than a real indictment of the Blu-ray technology, and therein lies a problem.
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Wednesday - October 8, 2008
Search engine giant Google has taken yet another step in its effort to monetize YouTube, the online video portal it acquired for $1.65 billion about two years ago. Now, YouTube users can click on advertisement links leading them to products offered for sale at online outlets like Apple's iTunes store and Amazon.com.
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