Following last week’s announced agreement between Internet radio services and SoundExchange , Pandora has gotten an almost immediate confidence boost on its future. Even though its founder Tim Westergren has referred to the funding environment for online music start-ups as Toxic , Pandora managed to close a new round of funding headed by Greylock Partners .
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Pandora’s future looking up following royalties agreement
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Comcast has announced that it has added 18 new channels to its On Demand Online service, including premium content from channels such as HBO .
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Comcast adds premium content to online VOD service
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Hid.im , a new online site, allows users to convert torrent files into PNG images, as a way to allow the uncensored, hidden upload of torrent files to image hosting services such as Photobucket . According to Michael Nutt, founder of the site, via TorrentFreak the site is “an attempt to make torrents more resilient
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New site converts torrent files into PNG image files
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According to a screenshot posted on TechCrunch , YouTube looks to be on the verge of dropping Internet Explorer 6 support, forcing users who have not yet updated from the aging browser to update to IE8, Firefox, Opera , Safari or Chrome to keep watching their favorite videos. Digg recently made a similar decision, noting that IE6 users account for 5 percent of all traffic but only 1 percent of comments and diggs. Picture via TechCrunch : Permalink | Comments
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Apple has announced today that customers have downloaded over 1.5 billion applications in the first year of the popular App Store . The App Store now also has 65,000 apps and 100,000 developers involved in the iPhone Developer Program. “The App Store is like nothing the industry has ever seen before in both scale and quality,” adds Steve Jobs, via an official press release .
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According to a Telegraph report, Microsoft is set to launch their own streaming music site which will offer free streaming and pay-for downloads. Peter Bale, executive producer of MSN, Microsoft’s news and entertainment portal , adds: “Music is an important area for Microsoft
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Stephen Fry, the popular actor, author and current gadget blogger has spoken out about piracy this week, defending non-commercial piracy and berating the media watchdog groups, who he claims are going about it all wrong. The lashing, made at the iTunes festival, started with Fry giving a history of music copyright.
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Stephen Fry defends non-commercial piracy
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Betting the Home Run Derby By: Doug Upstone – StatFox. Published: 7/13/ 2009 at 10:17:00 AM. Print This Article.
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According to WCBS , 15-year-old Alexa Longueira was walking in Staten Island, New York last week, texting on her phone when she fell into an open manhole, recieving minor injuries.
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