AP - Make room, iTunes. MySpace is hoping to shake up the digital music scene. In a bid to spruce up its popular online hangout, MySpace plans to flip the switch Thursday on a much-anticipated service that will give its roughly 120 million users free access to hundreds of thousands of songs from the world’s largest recording labels.
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AFP - MySpace is launching a new music service that blends free online radio, community and ways to interact with bands and discover new tunes.
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AP - Google Inc. said Wednesday that it has launched a music search service in China that allows users to access music legally online in a forum backed by some record labels and supported by advertising revenue.
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PC Magazine - Adobe on Thursday issued a number of updates to its Photoshop Express beta, the company’s online photo management tool originally introduced back in March. Enhancements include Air support, online printing, music soundtracks, and more.
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E! Online - Whitney Houston says it all in a new track making the rounds online.
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USATODAY.com - LOS ANGELES - Movies and music from small, independent creators push the pop-culture envelope with fresh ideas. Now, game developers are set to do the same with a wave of low-priced - and often offbeat - titles on the new online video-game system networks from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony.
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USATODAY.com - The programming format for HD Radio: Almost anything goes, including redneck women and obscure rock ‘n’ rollers. Beyond-the-mainstream country and rock music are just two genres getting more airtime as the nation’s stations roll out new, free digital HD Radio channels.
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Reuters - Appeals court arguments in a battle
over MP3 digital music patents between Alcatel-Lucent
and Microsoft Corp focused Monday on a joint
development pact struck nearly two decade earlier.
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TechWeb - InformationWeek - Research firm eMarketer predicts that music sales as a whole will continue to decline, but online and mobile markets will grow rapidly.
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AP - The Bee Gees’ Robin Gibb and other European music composers warned Thursday that standardizing music royalties across Europe could hurt musicians and the songs they write.
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