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Royalties for Internet Radio: it may be over for Web “broadcasters”

The judges kept this law in place, now Web music broadcasters are looking at big dollars to stay afloat. This sucks for EVERYONE. Down with the RIAA!

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Here it is! The famed RED camera.

NAB 2007: Live from the Red Booth

There are those who think that the Red One camera is vaporware. I’m here to tell you it’s not. We just spent some quality time in the booth and saw four of the cameras in action, as well as 4k footage of biplanes dogfighting as shot by Peter Jackson. It was awesome. Sadly, we were told that if we took stills or video of the unreleased WWI short, we’d leave with broken arms. Jim Jannard, CEO and founder of Red, was there. And he’s a burly lookin’ dude with steel business cards, so we believed him.

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Adam Curry on Vacation

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Here’s where Adam Curry, the podfather, is on vacation. This was shot with a Nokia E61i, which is pretty nice looking for a phone.

Apple gains control of famed Beatles logos, trademarks

Although supposedly a meeting of equals, the touted deal between Apple, Inc. and Apple Corps has given the former a decisive victory with some of the famed music label’s most cherished US trademarks changing hands. The US Patent and Trademark Office show that Apple Corps has given up more of the trademarks associated with The Beatles’ own company..

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Google to buy DoubleClick for $3.1 BILLION

Google announced that they have acquired DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in cash (nearly double the size of their YouTube Acquisition). Microsoft was reportedly in a bidding war with Google for the company. Google gets access to DoubleClicks advertising software and, perhaps more importantly, their customers and network.

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Google Launches Free 411 Service

Google threw a new product called Goog-411 into Google Labs today - a free telephone based information service that could replace toll 411 calls. About 2.6 billion 411 calls are made in the U.S. each year, and it is a $7-billion/year market. Domination of information continues!

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Apple adds Xvid to QuickTime components page

Apple has added the open source Xvid codec to its list of QuickTime components on Apple.com. Maybe Xvid will finally make it into iTunes and the AppleTV. Wow, not you have DVIX and XVID with your QT player. Very cool.

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EMI, Apple partner on DRM-free premium music

EMI Group will soon sell digital music with better sound quality and no digital rights management restrictions through Apple’s iTunes Store!

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Bumrush the Charts

If you are seeing this now, please buy the song attached to this link.  Do it and make a difference in who presents your music!

Founder of Netscape ditches Windows for the Mac

“Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, and co-founder of LoudCloud (Opsware) and Ning has finally said good bye to the Windows life, and switched to a Mac.”

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