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Men Behind Pirate Bay Found Guilty, Sent to Jail
The Pirate Bay four defendants were found guilty on Friday by a Swedish court and sent in prison...
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Prosecution Dropping Charge Draws Epic Lol From Pirate Bay Defendant
While the trial against The Pirate Bay torrent tracker taking place in Sweden is far from...
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Amazon Rolls Out Game Download Store
Tuesday, Amazon.com launched a new online store that offers over 600 casual game titles, without...
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Google Helps You Find Out If Your ISP Is Tricking You
Thanks to a new service offered by Google, a user can find out if his Internet Service Provider...
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Disastrous Results For The Zune Music Player
Microsoft has just announced a disastrous December quarter, but few words have been said...
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Windows 7 Beta Downloads Crush Microsoft Servers
The release of the first beta of the Microsoft’s next OS, Windows 7, has determined a very...
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CES: Ballmer Confirms Windows 7 Beta, Let The Downloads Begin!
Steve Ballmer took the stage at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to talk...
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Apple Ditches DRM, iTunes To Offer Free Songs
It was bound to happen. After years of controversy with the music labels Apple has finally won...
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Music Industry Drops Lawsuits
The Recording Industry Association of America has revealed its new strategy in fighting against...
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Steve Ballmer Says Microsoft Won’t Bid For Yahoo, Shares Tumble
Sometimes in business, as in a relationship, there is time
when you should yes. Otherwise, it will...
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Lala Reinventing Itself With 10-Cents-A-Song Online Music Service
Lala.com is reinventing itself, for the third time around,
and has now announced a new business...
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iPhones should beware of BlackBerry Storm
Research In Motion (RIM) introduced the touch-screen BlackBerry Storm. The eagerly awaited...
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Rewards For Using Live Search
The 1st of October marked the day when Microsoft launched Search Perks, a promotion which awards...
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SanDisk Prepares The Release Of Memory Cards With Music
SanDisk announced the upcoming release of its new microSD
card called slotMusic, which will...
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MySpace finalizes yet another iTunes killer
Los Angeles - Social networking portal MySpace is set to launch a new music service as soon as this...
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Apple’s iTunes Leads the Music Sales
Apple’s digital music store has topped again the US music retailers.
According to the latest...
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Yahoo Music Dead: Another Reason To Never Buy DRM Protected Tracks
Yahoo Music will be dead as of September 30th when the company is going to shut down its DRM...
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Report: Games Are AppStore's Top Paid Downloads
While free stuff rules the AppStore download charts, among the paid software downloaded, games rank...
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iTunes, Watch Out! Nokia Comes With More Music Than Ever
Nokia wants all four major music labels to join its “Comes
With Music” program before the official...
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Apple Releases iPhone SDK Beta 8, Hints About Remote App
As the official launch of the 3G iPhone is closing in, Apple
has released a new beta version of...
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Motorola's Rokr 8 Finally Available Through T-Mobile
Motorola’s new Rokr E8 mobile phone, presented all the way
back in January at the Consumer...
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Napster Steps Out Of The DRM Cloud With MP3 Music Library
Napster’s January announcement
became a reality as of today: the online music service announced...
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“Rock Band Track Pack Volume 1” For PS2, Wii Coming Up On July 15
It may not be as big as Guitar
Hero, but Rock Band does pretty well, with over 3 million bundle...
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Microsoft Stops Issuing DRM Keys… Bennett Has An Explanation!
Microsoft’s MSN Music service is
dead and buried as of August 31, when the company will stop...
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Net Neutrality Hearing at Stanford without Big ISPs
Comcast, AT&T, Verizon and Time Warner did not attend a net neutrality hearing Thursday at...
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Everyone Onboard For MySpace Music Store?
One week after MySpace
reportedly got close to signing a deal with two major music labels, Sony...
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The iPhone - Just Another Phone? Samsung Instinct Is Here!
The iPhone is not alone on the market, and it would better
watch out, as competition takes big...
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MySpace Reportedly Preparing For Deal With Sony BMG, Warner Music
MySpace is planning to make an entrance
into the digital music business, rumors have it, and is...
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Rock Band Reaches Staggering 6 Million Downloads In Four Months
Rock Band made a staggering 6
million downloads in just four month since its official launch, and...
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Verizon To Enhance Peer-To-Peer Experience Through P4P Protocol
If you can’t beat them, join
them! Verizon Communications Inc. has been working with researchers...
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Video Games
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Sony Pulls PS3 Firmware 2.40 Due To Technical Glitches
Shortly after it was release, Sony has decided to remove the
2.40 firmware after some...
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With PS3 Software Update 2.40, Sony Aims For Communities
Sony released today a new update for its gaming platform, PlayStation
3. Dubbed 2.40, the new...
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Rock Band Sequel To Include Online Modes, New Songs
Publisher MTV Games and developer Harmonix announced in a statement that the sequel to their...
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Report: Beatles Tunes To Be Included In Guitar Hero and Rock Band
According to a report from Financial
Times, the Beatles tunes will soon be included in the popular...
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Rock Band Coming to Nintendo Wii June 22nd
MTV has announced that the wait is over for Wii owners: its successful game Rock Band will hit...
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Rock Band Downloads Reach 6M, Major Patch Announced
Rock Band, the game released by MTV and Harmonix, has reached the six million downloads mark. Also,...
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Music and Game Integrated in MTV’s ‘Rock Band’
MTV stood to its promise made last year when it bought Harmonix Music Systems for $175 million,...
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Halo 3 To Heat Up The Gaming Consoles War
Halo 3 is still one week away but the hype surrounding its
launch has started to build up already....
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Microsoft Slashes Prices for Euro-Xbox 360
Microsoft has finally made the move in Europe: the price cut recently operated in the US has...
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Business
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YouTube And Sony Will Continue Their Partnership
The global licensing deal between YouTube and Sony Music Entertainment...
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Amazon's Kindle 2 Unofficial Details Are Out!
People no longer have to wonder about Amazon’s new Kindle 2 e-book reader, as its pictures...
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500 Million Apps Dowloaded from Apple’s App Store
According to a banner on Apple Incorporated’s main page, the App Store for the iPhone...
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RIAA Found A New Way Of Dealing With Illegal Music Downloads
Looking to find a better way to deal with the individuals illegally trading music, the Recording...
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RIAA Found A New Way Of Dealing With Illegal Music Sharing
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced its decision to change its policy on...
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New BlackBerry, BlackBerry Storm, Storms Onto The Market
The release day for Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Storm
has finally arrived and the device will...
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Microsoft's Zune Gets A Makeover
Microsoft Corp announced earlier today the release of a new
music subscription plan for Zune’s...
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Court Orders RealNetworks To Halt DVD Ripping Software
San Francisco - RealNetworks said Monday that it had stopped distribution of a software program to...
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Microsoft To Offer Rewards For Using Live Search
The 1st of October marked the day when Microsoft launched Search Perks, a promotion which awards...
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Nokia Introduces Its First Touch-Screen Phone
The world’s biggest mobile phone maker, Nokia, presented its
newest release, the company’s first...
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Sony Completes Takeover of Sony BMG Music Unit
Guetersloh, Germany - Sony has completely taken over the Sony BMG music company which it previously...
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Major Movie Studios Sue to Ban DVD Copying Software
Tuesday, six Hollywood movie studios have sued RealNetworks over
the latter’s software program...
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Nero Releases Its New Products
Nero AG managed to pull off today a launch for three new
products. The company’s offer will...
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MySpace Has Its Own Music Service
MySpace rolled out today its new online music store, called
MySpace Music, which enables users to...
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New Royalty Rates For The Online Music Industry
A recently reached agreement between songwriters, music
publishers, record labels and online music...
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Comcast Announces New Limit For Internet Data Usage
Comcast decided to enforce the announced restrictions on its
service usage and starting with...
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Frank Sinatra, Madonna Mitigate Losses For Warner Music In Q3
Third quarter results weren’t as bad as expected for Warner
Music Group, as European earnings made...
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Google Releases A New Free Music Service In China
Google announced the launch of a new music service called
Music Onebox which will offer users a...
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Nokia and Warner Music Group Agree on “Comes With Music”
Giant mobile phone manufacturer Nokia made official on Tuesday its deal with Warner Music Group's...
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Rhapsody Goes At War With iTunes Firing DRM Free MP3s
Rhapsody’s officials announced their new "Music Without Limits" campaign, which will...
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Facebook, MySpace Or Both?
The stats recently presented by the research company
ComScore show that Facebook’s popularity has...
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Apple Sold 5 Billion Songs on iTunes So Far
Apple announced that its cash cow, iTunes, has reached the 5 billion downloads landmark. The music...
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MySpace’s Makeover Only Four Days Away
On Friday, News Corp's MySpace announced its
plan to completely transform the website starting...
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HBO Is Now An iTunes Guest
A brand new feature is now available on Apple’s iTunes
Store, as customers will be given access to...
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TV Shows Coming to Zunes Everywhere
Microsoft introduced on Monday new software features to the Zune online store, expanding its...
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Warner Music May Propose A Tax For Online Music
It appears that Warner Music Group is thinking
of a way to have Internet providers add a $5...
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Teens Prefer iTunes To CDs, Making Apple No.2 US Music Retailer
Here’s a fact that might sound a bit strange: CD sales are
down, but music sales continue to grow....
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Sony BMG To Sell Music On Amazon's MP3 store
Amazon has scored one more point in its battle of a largest share
in digital music market, as Sony...
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Cheaper ITunes for UK as Apple Settles EU Antitrust Case
The U.S.-based electronic manufacturer, Apple, will level its prices for iTunes downloads across...
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Napster Turns To MP3 Format
Napster, the largest on-line
music subscription service, announced that starting with the second...
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Specials
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Microsoft Offers Rewards For Using Live Search
The 1st of October marked the day when Microsoft launched Search Perks, a promotion which awards...
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Ready or Not, MySpace Music’s Launch Is Getting Closer and Closer
If the world’s biggest networking site expands even more so
as to offer just any noteworthy track...
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Lehman Analyst Earthquakes Entertainment Industry
In a series of research notes, Anthony DiClemente, a Lehman
Brothers analyst, devalued the...
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U.S. Music Market Dominated By Apple’s iTunes
Another year, another record: Apple is king of the online
music market these days, as it managed...
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Copyright Pirate Faces Five Years In Prison
Barry Gitarts, 25, member of the Apocalypse Production Crew (APC), was found guilty on Thursday of...
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Napster to Challenge iTunes and Amazon
Napster has announced it will enter the MP3 download market
on Tuesday. The company hopes to lure...
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Yahoo Makes Its Search More Secure
Yahoo unveiled today a new feature that will improve the security
of the Web search experience....
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Ad-Supported Music Sites: The Next Step In Digital Music
The great success iTunes has been enjoying coupled with the
music studios’ decision to renounce...
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Apple Is Serious About The Movies
Every time an Apple’s event is closing in, the tech
journalists are playing one of their favorites...
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Sony BMG To Go DRM Free Way
According to a report from Business
Week, the music giant Sony BMG will sell DRM free music some...
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Led Zeppelin Catalogue To Be Available Online
Legendary rock band Led Zeppelin will offer its music for the first time through all online music...
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Now Music From Rhapsody On A TiVo Near You
Thanks to the new partnership between TiVo and Rhapsody, millions
of songs will be delivered...
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Get Your Songs Directly To iPod from LaLa.com
A new digital music start-up has morphed from a CD-swapping
site into an ambitious project which...
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Music
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Stars Wave Goodbye to TRL
Total Request Live was one of MTV’s most popular and loved shows since the networks started out....
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“TRL” Is Off The Air
Broadcast for the first time in 1998, Total Request Live was one of MTV’s first step in gearing the...
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MTV Announces Rock Band-Like Beatles Video Game
"Rock Band" creators MTV Games and Harmonix jointly announced they've worked out a deal...
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Kid Rock Strikes Deal With Rhapsody, Full Albums For Only $10
Although the opposite of traditionalism in many respects, Kid Rock was oddly quirky about the...
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iTunes Might Go Out Of Business Due To New Royalty Rates
The music industry is still struggling against piracy, and it seems like federal judges are here to...
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MySpace Music Aims to Capitalize on Free Music
MySpace Music, featuring a catalog of songs which will soon include millions of tracks for free web...
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iTunes Allegedly Blocked in China over Tibet-Themed Album
iTunes users in China complained they had been unable to download music since Monday, and advocacy...
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Allman Brothers Band Sues Record Company
The Allman Brothers Band has sued record company UMG
Recordings for $13 million in unpaid digital...
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Metallica’s Lars Ulrich Hints About Online Distribution
Eight years passed by and the same man that spearheaded the
protest movement against Napster,...
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No More Vocal Gymnastics on Mariah Carey’s New Album
Mariah Carey’s latest album, launched on April 16, registered
massive sales in the very first day....
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British Retail Giant Tesco Takes on iTunes
British-based international retail chain Tesco will open an online shop next month selling music,...
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Mariah Carey Breaks Elvis Presley's Singles Record
With her 18th chart-topping single "Touch My Body," Mariah Carey has officially outrun...
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Smashing Pumpkins Defend Their “Artistic Integrity”
The Smashing Pumpkins have filed a lawsuit against former
record label Virgin Records, over the...
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Music Sales Dropped 10 Percent Last Year
Digital music sales increased significantly last year, but overall music sales dropped. The...
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Apple to Cut iTunes Prices to Settle EU Antitrust Case
Apple Inc announced that it will change its European pricing scheme to appease the European...
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Radiohead's Album, A Gift for 3 out 5 Fans
Information company comScore released findings Tuesday showing that three out of five people who...
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Radiohead's "It's Up to You" Scheme Doesn't Pay Off
English rock band Radiohead announced a month ago it will experiment by letting users pay what they...
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Britney’s “Blackout” Expected to Hit No. 1
The troubled pop singer, Britney Spears seems to get lucky
finally. After a long period in...
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Britney’s ‘Blackout’ Drops This Month
All Britney’s fans will be able celebrate Halloween listening to her new album which hits the...
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Britney’s “Blackout” To Be Released on October 30
The long-awaited album of the pop star Britney Spears will
be released earlier then previously...
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Radiohead Says: “It’s Up To You”
Radiohead is successful and
everybody knows it. But from all, they have acknowledged it the most...
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Wal-Mart Sells DRM-Free Songs
World’s largest retailer Wal-Mart has begun selling DRM-free tracks in an attempt to make its music...
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Paul McCartney Agrees To Sell His Music Online
The former Beatle has finally decided to have his solo albums sold online via digital downloads for...
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Gadgets
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New BlackBerry, BlackBerry Storm, Finally Arrives
The release day for Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Storm
has finally arrived and the device will...
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New Subscription Plans for Zune Users
Microsoft has recently announced a new music subscription plan for owners of its Zune player, which...
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Nokia Enters The Touch Screen Market
Nokia, the world’s biggest mobile phone manufacturer, has unveiled
their new 5800 XpressMusic...
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Verizon, Rhapsody Sign Music Download Deal
Verizon has launched a service that allows the company’s subscribers to download as much music as...
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SanDisk Unveils 16GB Video MP3 Player
After Apple’s last week major overhaul operated for the iPod line, it’s time for SanDisk, the...
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Vudu Aims at Beating AppleTV or TiVo
Vudu, Vuze, Veoh, VideoEgg, Lulu, Hulu…Don’t worry, I’m not crazy: those are the names of a few...
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Sony Confirms a Plethora of New Features for PS3, PSP
This year’s Games Convention from Leipzig has witnessed Sony’s mea culpa towards Europe: lots of...
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Windows Live Messenger Now On Xbox 360
As it has promised last month, Microsoft unveiled today the
Xbox 360 Spring Update. The most...
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