Modern Music Patron Betty Freeman dies at 87 - POLLSTAR
Pub. Date - Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:53:00 GMT
Betty Freeman, patron to such contemporary musical masters as John Cage, Philip Glass and Pierre Boulez, has died. She was 87. Freeman died Saturday of pancreatic cancer at her Beverly Hills home, daughter Shelley Butler said Wednesday. Over four ... DRM-free iTunes Store to haunt Apple? - CNET News
Pub. Date - Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:13:00 GMT
Much has been said about Phil Schiller's keynote address at Macworld on Tuesday, where he announced that Apple has finally struck deals with all the major music labels, making songs sold via the iTunes Store free of digital rights management. The ... Red Cross: Israel delayed access to Gaza wounded - Bismarck Tribune
Pub. Date - Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:16:00 GMT
GENEVA - The international Red Cross accused Israel on Thursday of "unacceptable" delays in letting rescue workers reach three Gaza City homes hit by shelling where they eventually found 15 dead and 18 wounded, including young children too weak to ... Mosquitoes Sync Wing Movements as Mating Signal - Redorbit.com
Pub. Date - Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:18:00 GMT
New research from Cornell University finds that Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the kind that spread diseases such as dengue and yellow fever, change their wing vibrations as a mating symbol. Ronald R. Hoy, who authored a report about the study, said the ... En Espanol - Billboard
Pub. Date - Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:55:00 GMT
Mariah Carey earned her 18th No. 1 song, Guns N' Roses' "Chinese Democracy" was finally released and Lil Wayne sold over a million albums in a week. It's been quite a year in music. Where did your favorites land on Billboard's definitive year-end ... CES News: SonyEricsson Adds 3G Camera Phone, Music Phone - Twice
Pub. Date - Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:19:00 GMT
LAS VEGAS — Two new 3G cellphones introduced here by SonyEricsson include the company’s most affordable Cyber-shot camera phone to date and a Walkman-brand music phone. Both models feature quadband GDM/EDGE data technology and W-CDMA HSDPA (high ... Read all 'Macworld 2009' posts in Apple - CNET News
Pub. Date - Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:40:00 GMT
Macworld attendees listen to IDG's Paul Kent (standing, left) discuss the future of Macworld. (Credit: Tom Krazit/CNET News) A middle-aged man in a faded NeXT T-shirt raised his hand for the microphone. If IDG wanted to save Macworld, he said, it ... CeCe Winans, others honored for gospel music - Launch.com
Pub. Date - Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:11:00 GMT
Gospel stars CeCe Winans , Elbernita "Twinkie" Clark and Donald Lawrence will be saluted by their peers in a musical tribute in Nashville. Kirk Franklin , Faith Evans , Karen Clark-Sheard and Donnie McClurkin will be among the performers at BMI's ... CES: SanDisk unveils memory card-based music player - Reuters
Pub. Date - Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:02:00 GMT
Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock market, and mutual funds ... Mosquitoes make sweet love music - BBC Science/Nature
Pub. Date - Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:23:00 GMT
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. This love song is a "harmonic", or multiple, of their individual frequencies - 400 Hz for the female and 600 Hz for the male. What's more, the high pitch hum exceeds the previously known ... | 
