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Sunday, 28th September 2008

Pandora Lives a Little Longer, House Passes Webcaster Act

A ray of hope has been passed to Pandora and other web broadcasting services. Just yesterday, Pandor founder Tim Westergren issued a "call to arms" to its listeners. He pleaded with fans and supporters of the popular music-streaming service to urge their State Representative to vote for the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008. This Act would give web…

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Saturday, 27th September 2008

Cartoon: Misreading The Cluetrain Manifesto

There are people out there in the worlds of PR and marketing who jump on the Cluetrain, order big pitchers of the Kool-Aid and start authenticating transparently like mad. God bless 'em. But there's always one in every crowd who, well...

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iTunes Attempts to Stop Fake App Store Reviews

There are numerous complaints that customers have about Apple's App Store. You can't try an app before you buy it, no refunds on apps, false app reviews, and from a developer's standpoint, too many restrictions and rules. Apple is now trying to fix at least one of those problems. The App Store now requires users to purchase an app before they…

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Wal-Mart Gives Consumers Number 1 Reason DRM is Not the Answer

The music industry is struggling to gain a foot-hold in the battle with online piracy. The options available for music lovers to grow their music collection digitally is tremendous and free. So much so that music companies and publishers have struck up agreements with some of biggest names offering digital music: iTunes, Last.FM., Amazon, Myspace…

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Pandora Issues "Call to Arms" to its Listeners

Lately it seems that all the publicity in the world won't do Pandora any good. Last month Pandora's founder, Tim Westergren, talked about making a "pull-the-plug kind of decision" for the service. "The moment we think this problem in Washington is not going to get solved, we have to pull the plug because all we're doing is wasting money…

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