Amazon has launched the public beta of its new digital music portal called Amazon MP3, which will feature two million songs from 180,000 artists and 20,000 labels, all without DRM. Separate songs will sell for $.89 or $.99 and albums will range in cost from $5.99 to $9.99, with the best selling albums coming in at $8.99.
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Comedian Drew Carey to Replace Bob Barker on Price is Right
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Genial comic Drew Carey was tapped Monday to replace silver-haired legend Bob Barker on the CBS daytime game show “The Price is Right.” Carey confirmed the deal during a taping of the “Late Show” with David Letterman.
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Falling right in line with the news TiVo CEO Tom Rogers hinted at back in March, the struggling company is readying the highly anticipated HD Series 3 “Lite,which will target a much wider range of consumer with a price point of around $299 All in all, a pretty attractive package when you don’t have a lot of cash to burn.
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Some good news for fans on internet radio. Based on this article from Wired.com a SoundExchange exec just promised — in front of Congress — that SoundExchange will not enforce the collection of webcaster royalties under the new rates that would have driven many of them out of business.
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Court declines to postpone Internet radio royalty hike
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A federal court closed the door on legal attempts to delay the implementation of the new, heavily-criticized Internet radio royalty scheme. Webcasters’ hopes now lie exclusively with Congress.
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A tipster sent us these spy pics of what he says is the upcoming cheap version of the TiVo Series 3 personal video recorder, which is rumored to be a sub-$300 HDTV digital recorder to be available this fall. The spy tells us this is a prototype of the forthcoming box, and if you squint, you can see two CableCARD slots
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Hot Dog Drama: Japanese Champ Will Compete with Injury to Honor His Mother
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Kobayashi says that, despite mourning the loss of his mother in March and a serious injury to his jaw, he still wants to defend his title on July 4th in Coney Island, “I want to be the pride of my mother.” It won’t be easy because his #1 rival swallowed 59 1/2 hot dogs in the qualifier.
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Justin Verlander throws first no-hitter for Tigers since ‘84
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Justin Verlander pitched the first no-hitter in Comerica Park history, mixing 99 mph heat with crazy curveballs to lead the Detroit Tigers over the Milwaukee Brewers 4-0 on Tuesday night.
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TiVo has clearly seen the light after years of pushing rather high-end, high-priced HD DVRs out its doors. The company disclosed in its Q1 earnings call that a reduced-cost version of the TiVo Series 3 is on the way, and not a moment too soon.
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How-to: Use your TiVo Series3 eSATA port to add an external drive
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Ever wish you could use that eSATA port TiVo taunts you with on the back of your Series3? If so your moment has finally arrived — and not a moment too soon for many a DVR-loving TV fans whose drives are filled to the brim with HD programming. Best of all: you don’t even have to crack open your box.
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Finally….It took awhile but America has finally got it right and sent Sanjaya home. My only complaint about the bottom 3 was that Blake was there instead of Chris.
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Internet radio dealt severe blow: Copyright Board rejects royalty appeal
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The Copyright Royalty Board has rejected an appeal of last month’s ruling governing royalties paid by Internet broadcasters. The new rules will now take effect on May 15. Internet Radio is now officially in big trouble.
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I haven’t posted anything about the whole Imus thing but found this clip from MSNBC and thought it was pretty good.
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Wii system update brings final Opera browser to your Wii [PICS]
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A stealthy system update served fresh from Nintendo will open the door to your spiffy, new and improved Opera browser.
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Press Release: EMI Music launches DRM-free downloads.
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EMI Music launches DRM-free superior sound quality downloads across its entire digital repertoire
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“Yahoo is announcing that all Yahoo Mail users will have unlimited storage starting in May 2007. The current storage limit is 1 GB per account (2 GB for $20/year premium users). With this change, Yahoo leapfrogs Gmail (2.8 GB and growing) and Live.com Mail (2GB).”
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Amazon’s Unbox video download service “now available” on TiVo
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Usually when a vendor says available “later this year,” they deliver in December, not the following month. So excuse our surprise to find Amazon’s Unbox video download service “Now Available!” to any broadband connected Series2 or Series3 TiVo. That’s right, after a brief pilot kicked off in February, TiVo subscribers can now register their box…
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Satellite radio operators Sirius and XM are expected to announce their long-awaited merger today, according to a source familiar with the deal. The two sides were locked in negotiations over the weekend trying to hammer out a final agreement with an eye toward going public with the merger today in Washington, D.C., where XM is based…
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New bill to keep XM, Sirius from offering local news and alerts
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Do terrestrial radio stations need government protection from satellite broadcasters? A pair of congressmen think so and have introduced legislation that would take local traffic and weather off of XM Radio and Sirius.
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