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Rhapsody is the ultimate in online music discovery.

Receive a free 30-day trial ($12.99 value) to RealNetworks Rhapsody and receive unlimited access to more than 250,000 albums, 80,000 artists and 3,000,000 songs. To cancel your Rhapsody subscription, you must call RealNetworks Customer Support Service at 1-866-597-5505, Monday - Friday from 6:00am-6:00pm PST and Saturday - Sunday from 7:30am-5:00pm PST.

SIRIUS XM Radio to Offer Listeners Extended Block of Tom Petty's Buried Treasure Show on Deep Tracks Channel

SIRIUS XM Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) announced today that Tom Petty's critically-acclaimed Thursday evening show on Deep Tracks, Tom Petty's Buried Treasure, will now also be broadcast each Sunday evening for an uninterrupted four hours on Deep Tracks SIRIUS channel 16 and XM channel 40 beginning Sunday, February 15.

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Due to popular demand, SIRIUS XM listeners will now have access to four non-stop additional hours of Tom Petty's Buried Treasure on SIRIUS XM's Deep Tracks channel every Sunday from 8:00 pm - 12:00 am ET/5:00 pm -9:00 pm PT. Each Sunday's special will kick off with a rebroadcast of the latest show that debuted on Deep Tracks the prior Thursday at 8:00 pm ET/5:00 pm PT. The programming will continue with two shows from the Buried Treasure vault as well as an additional encore of Thursday's show.

Each week, Grammy Award(R) -winning singer-songwriter, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Heartbreakers ringleader, Traveling Wilbury and rock legend Tom Petty pulls together a set of rare and classic tracks, many vintage, from his private vaults, for an hour of radio magic woven together with Petty's informed, passionate and entertaining commentary. This season Tom has been particularly inspired by the numerous emails from fans of the show requesting their personal "buried treasures" and their input will no doubt influence Tom's choice of playlists.

Tom Petty, along with legendary musicians including Jimmy Buffett, Bob Dylan, Eminem, Grateful Dead, David Johansen, B.B. King, Wynton Marsalis, Willie Nelson, Mojo Nixon, Elvis Presley, Marky Ramone, Lou Reed, Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen and "Little Steven" Van Zandt represent the diverse and creative artist-driven music programming being broadcast by SIRIUS XM today.

SIRIUS XM's Deep Tracks explores classic rock's archives by digging deep into classic rock albums. Deep Tracks listeners will hear Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Allman Brothers, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Who, Bob Dylan and many others.

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Driven by Music, MTV.com, VH1.com and CMT.com Deliver 1.2 Billion Video Streams in 2007

Women Ruled, Country Crossed Over and VMA Artists Rocked in MTV Networks Music Group's Top 30 Most-Streamed Music Videos of 2007

Driven by music, MTV.com, VH1.com and CMT.com video streams topped more than 1.2 billion in 2007, 30 percent more than 2006 -- an all-time record for the collective brands within MTV Networks' Music Group, which now attracts nearly 30 million unique visitors every month. Music videos accounted for nearly half of the streams, as viewers sought out their favorite artists and discovered new ones from a cross-section of genres, including pop and hip hop, country and rock. Music videos also drove MTV Mobile, VH1 Mobile and CMT Mobile into triple-digit growth in 2007. In fact, music videos accounted for every single one of the top 10 most-streamed videos on the three services.

"Music was at the core of everything we did in 2007," said Van Toffler, President of MTV Networks' Music Group. "And, once again, MTV, VH1 and CMT produced the year's most memorable events in music."

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Vodafone signs up to Nokia services

Mobile services giant Vodafone has signed up to Nokia's suite of mobile internet services, it has been announced.

Under the deal, Vodafone customers will be able to access the Finnish company's Ovi platform, including its music service, and Vodafone will have exclusive access to certain future models of Nokia phones. New Nokia phones feature 3G services, consisting of high-speed broadband networks which allow users to check email and surf the internet.

A press release from Vodafone stated: "Vodafone and Nokia will make it easier to access the Internet quickly at the click of a button. "Customers will get the full suite of communications, content, internet services and browsing, through seamlessly integrated Vodafone services on Nokia handsets." Currently Vodafone is the world's largest supplier of mobile phone services and Nokia is the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones.

Vodafone now has 232 million subscribers to its services worldwide.

iPod Lights Man's Pants On Fire

Danny Williams's taste in music is so wretched, his own iPod tried to kill him. Very recently, the Douglasville, Georgia native looked down to find his pants pocket engulfed in flames. The culprit: his year-old iPod Nano.

Williams walked away from the incident uninjured thanks to a piece of glossy paper in his pocket, which he believes spared him from being badly burned. But, as if having your iPod try to immolate you isn't frightening enough, consider where this episode took place: Williams works at a kiosk at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. As Williams said himself:

"If TSA had come by and seen me smoking, they could have honestly thought I was a terrorist."

This fire is just the latest in a series of recent lithium-ion battery flame-ups. After smoke and flames were reported by consumers last August, Sony has since been forced to recall more than seven million laptop batteries it made for its own computers as well as for Dell, Apple, Gateway, Toshiba and several others. This summer, a Chinese man was killed when his cell phone battery exploded in his chest pocket, sending a broken rib tearing into his heart.

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Time Warner Cable Launches Road Runner Music Service from MusicNet

Time Warner Cable today launched two new enhanced music products, Time Warner Cable's Road Runner Music, a subscription and download store, and Time Warner Cable's Road Runner Music Portable, a service that gives Time Warner Cable Road Runner customers
access to music while on the go.

Through its partnership with Synacor, MusicNet -- the music unit of the leading digital entertainment services provider MediaNet Digital -- is providing the underlying technology platform and content for Time Warner Cable's Road Runner subscription and portable music services. Synacor and MusicNet also enable digital music services for more than a dozen Internet broadband providers nationwide.

"I have spent the better part of my career in the cable business, and to see the advances made in providing consumers with such broad access to music is very satisfying," commented Alan McGlade, president and CEO of MediaNet Digital. "Time Warner Cable's Road Runner music service offers an ideal solution for its customers who are yearning for a single hub for their entertainment offerings. MusicNet's platform allows for integrated PC-based and portable options to offer a seamless digital entertainment experience. Together with Synacor we have created a great product."http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

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Synacor, a provider of Internet tools, portals and content for cable, Internet and telecommunications service providers, is providing the billing and authentication unification, coordination of branding elements, training and marketing support and quality assurance for the services.

"We are pleased to partner with MusicNet to provide this superior digital music product," said Ron Frankel, Synacor president and CEO. "We have the ability to unify a variety of services into a single delivery platform that enables our clients to provide a variety of music, videos and music services to their customers."

Prince Sues Internet Sites

The flamboyant artist Prince is reportedly suing several internet companies, including YouTube, for breach of copyright.

Prince claims that he is trying to "reclaim his art on the internet" and that he is not simply doing so for himself but for "all artists". Both eBay and PirateBay are also among the companies that Prince has accused of failing to edit out content that has not been authorized.

A spokesman for Prince said: "Prince believes strongly that as an artist the music rights must remain with the artist and thus copyrights should be protected across the board. Very few artists have ever taken this kind of action over their rights. "Yet, Prince has showed time and time again he is ready to challenge the system in new ways to put artists and music first." The artist has enlisted the aid of Web Sheriff, a company that specializes in fighting internet piracy.

Prince gave away his last album free in a newspaper in the UK, in order to promote several concerts.

Online Music Service Sales Increase

The music industry suffered a significant loss in physical music sales in 2006, but the digital music market continued to grow, a new report has revealed.

According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), physical music shipments, such as CDs, fell by 11 percent to $17.5 billion last year, while digital shipments increased by 85 percent to $2.1 billion. Commenting on the figures, IFPI chairman John Kennedy said that the industry had hoped the loss in physical sales would have been offset by the growth in music downloads. "But while digital sales have grown as expected, physical sales have fallen by more than expected," he remarked.

The IFPI stated that digital music formats, which include those downloaded onto computers and cell phones, accounted for 11 per cent of total shipments last year. In related news, reports earlier this week suggested that Universal did not intend to renew its contract with Apple's iTunes for the online distribution of its music.

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Warner Debuts Free Music Service

It has been announced that Warner Music Group's Lala.com is to offer songs to listen to for free online.

Using the site, owners of iPods can keep their iTunes libraries online, where they will be able to be accessed from anywhere and shared with any user. Lala.com also allows users to trade CDs online for a nominal fee as well as selling tracks that can be uploaded directly onto an iPod.

Founder of Lala.com Bill Nguyen accused the studios of having "done everything they can to get people to hate music." He added that Napster, which was shut down in July 2001 after an injunction was issued against it, was the "last good thing to happen to music that people loved".

"We wondered what would happen if we built a new Napster, with one hope that if you trust the consumer and don't think they are the enemy then you won't get screwed," Mr Nguyen added. Currently Lala.com has approximately 300,000 members and charges $1 per disc for users to swap CDs among themselves.

"Music is and will always be a driving force of the Internet, states Mark Weibel, EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc. who operates the industries leading comparative shopping website for digital products and services. "Recently, there has been a boom in "boutique" music stores that cater to specific audiences. For example, Beatportand Bleep cater to the electronic music community. Magnatune, Amie Street, and Mindawn are other examples of sites that cater to specific audiences. "

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Google Warns Of Drive-by Downloads

Google Warns Of Drive-by Downloads

Internet sites which contain malware that can infect a PC are becoming increasingly prevalent, the internet search giant Google has warned.

A full one in ten web pages is capable of launching a "drive-by download", meaning that it could place malware onto a PC. Using such software, hackers can steal sensitive information and infect PCs, Google cautioned. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at the security company Sophos, said: "They [hackers] used to spread malware by email attachment. What they do now is spam out URLs.

"You cannot protect users by restricting what sites they go to. You need to start protecting your web access, as well as your email gateway." Such malware present on websites is becoming "a considerable problem" for both businesses and personal users, Mr Cluley added. Meanwhile, companies have been warned to be aware of a worm which inhabits removable drives like floppy disks and USB sticks.

Sophos has stated that the W32/SillyFD-AA copies itself onto removable drives and then infiltrates the computers they are subsequently hooked up to.

Yahoo! Expands Online Music Library

Internet giant Yahoo! has substantially expanded its music library, the company has announced.

Now music fans will have access to a database of the lyrics to over 400,000 songs, the largest online lyrics library in the world. Songs from approximately 9,000 different artists, including the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Beyonce and Radiohead are featured in the library. While many other websites offer the lyrics to songs, most have not obtained the permission of those that own the copyright and so are technically breaking the law, Yahoo! stated.

Ian Rogers, general manager of Yahoo! Music, said of the service: "It fills a huge, gaping hole out there." Yahoo! is to share revenue generated by the ads that will be shown next to the lyric with those that own the copyrights to the songs. Meanwhile, online music site Napster has announced that it is to start offering a subscription service for access to its online library of songs. Napster has allied with electronics retail giant Circuit City to deploy the service, which will be called Circuit City + Napster.

"Music and video continue to drive the Internet," states Mark Weibel, EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc. who operates the industries leading comparative website. "With companies like Apple, Yahoo, Napster and Rhapsody this trend will continue to grow along side video, VoIP and IPTV"

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AT&T To Offer Free Napster To Go

Communication giant AT&T has offered its wireless and broadband Internet customers a year free access to the Napster To Go service.

From April 1st broadband subscribers that add wireless phone service, or vice versa, will be able to use the Napster service, which offers over three million songs. Currently AT&T's wireless unit, Cingular, is America's largest cell carrier, boasting in excess of 60 million subscribers.

Rick Welday, chief marketing officer of AT&T Consumer, said: "By tying Napster To Go to AT&T's robust communications network, we're turning up the volume nationwide on both consumer value and added convenience." By joining communication with entertainment, AT&T is showing that it is committed to delivering content at home and "on the go", added Mr. Welday.

AT&T has also announced that residents of Kansas City will now be able to its U-verse services. U-verse features AT&T's fiber-rich network with television and high-speed Internet services available on demand.

"Napster concludes their fiscal year 2007 with over 830,000 paid subscribers, which many believe makes them the largest on-demand music service in the industry," states Mark Weibel, EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc. who operates the industries leading comparative website. "This would make Napster larger than Rhapsody, and larger than all of the other remaining competitors combined."http://www2.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

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iTunes Most Recognizable

Apple's popular music downloading site iTunes was the most recognizable music brand among teenagers in the US in 2006, according to a new survey.

A full 66 percent of people aged 12 and over were aware of iTunes last year, according to the Tempo Digital Music Brandscape study from Ipso Insight. This number is up from the 57 per cent who knew about the site in 2005. Matt Kleinschmit, author of the Tempo study, said: "While iTunes' awareness gains in 2006 have been salient, many industry watchers had anticipated them."

Social networking site MySpace also had a good year in 2006, with recognition rising from 16 percent in 2005 to 54 percent last year. Napster was not so fortunate however, with its recognition declining from 79 percent in 2005 to 68 percent in 2006. The Tempo study surveyed 1,501 downloaders over the age of 12 from August 21st to 30th.

"Music continues to be a driving force behind the Internet," states Mark Weibel the EVP of Marketing for Broadband National who operates the leading comparative shopping website for broadband and other digital related products and services. "Due to the expansion of broadband Internet users can quickly download and start to enjoy music and videos."

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Recording Industry Tackles Illegal Downloads

Recording industry groups have announced a crackdown on illegal music downloading in universities.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has complained to a number of universities across the US and has called on them to take action against the offending students. While it is possible to identify which computer is being used, the RIAA does not know which individuals are illegally downloading copyrighted material.

Jonathan Lamy, a spokesman for the RIAA, said: "We know piracy is most acute on campuses. "Students have high-speed access and have more time than money." The RIAA wants universities to take action against those who illegally download music through various means, such as forcing them to watch an educational video on piracy.

It has also suggested that universities revoke students' rights to use computers on campus if they are found to be downloading unlawfully. In the past year, the number of complaints sent out by the RIAA has increased three-fold to 15,000.

"Illegal downloading is certainly not a new story," states Mark Weibel EVP of Marketing for Broadband National, who operates the industries leading comparative shopping website. "People must remember that along with your music, you are most likely downloading hundreds of nasty viruses that will cripple your PC. They embed themselves right in the music files and begin to go to work damaging your PC while you listen to the music."

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Costs Prevent Young People From Downloading On Phones

Many young people are not downloading music on their cell phones because of the associated cost, according to a new report.

A survey of youngsters in the UK found that around half pay for downloading music, but are deterred from doing so on their cell phones as it is more expensive. Although the study by Q Research found that three-quarters like to listen to music on their phone, 97 per cent actually download on their computers.

Dr Liz Nelson, chairman of Q Research, commented: "This survey shows that while there is already a very buoyant market for paying for MP3 files from the internet among young people, they are very aware of the cost of downloading files to their phones." She added that many young people are also opposed to watching video or receiving video ads to their mobiles because of the cost. The company has urged mobile operators to understand the attitudes of younger people if they intend to keep rolling out new services, such as social networking, advertising and music.

"Cost is most definitely an issue when it comes to downloading MP3 and video files," states Mark Weibel, EVP of Marketing for Broadband National, who operates the industries leading comparative shopping website. "We've been successful in integrating providers with special offers from music and video producers to help offset these associated costs."

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TiVo To Deliver Broadband Video Content

TiVo has announced recently that it has signed Music Choice, America's largest music-related content deliverer.

Through the TiVoCast service, Music Choice is to deliver its catalogue of music videos and programming via broadband to TV. From later this year, TiVo subscribers who have a TiVo Series2 box and broadband Internet will be able to use the service. Tara Maitra, vice president of content services for TiVo, said: "Now TiVo subscribers will be able to get the music videos they want on their TV, not just what a music video channel happens to program.

"Music Choice has the best and widest catalog of music videos along with an extensive collection of original programming, and we expect this service to be extremely popular among the TiVo audience." Recently TiVo allied with digital media company RealNetworks to integrate the Rhapsody digital music service, which gives TiVo subscribers access to over three million songs on demand.

"This cooperation is just another example of how broadband and digital services like music and IPTV are gaining traction with mainstream media and consumers", states Mark Weibel EVP of Marketing for Broadband National, the industries leading comparative shopping website.

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