Reuters – T-Mobile USA Inc said on Wednesday it will begin selling its new 3G-enabled Dash smartphone in July, yet another entry in the hotly contested mobile phone segment.
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PC World – T-Mobile will release a smartphone running Google's Android operating system in Europe in the late third quarter, the phone's Chinese manufacturer, Huawei Technologies, said Thursday.
PC World – T-Mobile today introduced the T-Mobile Dash 3G, a long-awaited refresh of its predecessor, which we first reviewed more than two years ago. The Dash 3G joins this summer's hot parade of new cell phones, which began earlier this month with the launch of the Palm Pre and continues this week with the launch of the Apple iPhone 3G S and next week's launch of the second T-Mobile phone with Android. The Dash 3G will go on sale in stores in July.
Used to the RIAA blowing everything out of proportion? Well your not alone, but now they have gone another step further, they now consider boycotting their music to be against the law.
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It appears that the big record labels and their lobbyists aren’t content with just suing and shaking down students across the country — now they want to threaten them for taking a political stand as well. Earlier this week, musicFIRST, the big time lobbying group put together by the RIAA to push for the highly questionable Performance Rights tax on radio stations, did a neat little publicity stunt where it asked the FCC to investigate radio stations that apparently were “boycotting” musicians who supported the Performance Rights tax, claiming that it was an abuse of the airwaves. Remember, this is the same group that just recently called radio “a kind of piracy.”
So, wait, which is it? If it’s a kind of piracy to play songs on the radio, shouldn’t musicFIRST and the RIAA be thrilled that radio stations aren’t playing their music? Or do they recognize the free promotional benefits radio provides for artists? They can’t have it both ways, can they? First they’re upset that the music is being “pirated” and now they’re upset that it’s not being “pirated”? Please explain!
Now, as for those nasty nasty radio stations “boycotting” certain artists, well who are they? Turns out one of the main culprits is a tiny 100-watt high school radio station who has explained, in great detail the reasons behind their political stance. They are making a political choice by purposely boycotting musicians who support the view that playing their songs on the radio is “a kind of piracy.” You would think that would make musicFIRST, the RIAA and those musicians happy. But, more to the point, that music “boycott” was a temporary thing, and lasted for one month, from mid-June 2007 until mid-July of that same year. Yes. It lasted for one month, to make a political statement, and it happened two years ago. And suddenly the RIAA/musicFIRST wants an FCC investigation? Of a bunch of high schoolers making a political statement against a tax that would harm their educational radio station by not “pirating” materials that the lobbyists claim are pirated?”
Source http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090616/1527385253.shtml
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PC World – Oracle on Wednesday said it has bought the intellectual property of Conformia Software, maker of software for managing the design and development of drugs. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
AP – Some groups that have lagged in signing up for high-speed Internet service, like the elderly, the poor and rural residents, have started to gain on those who have had a head start, according to a new survey.
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