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I though we wre trying to FOSTER tech investment: Venture capitalists didn’t need another reason to avoid high-tech investments – but two major record labels have given them one anyway. Still seeking retribution for Napster’s online file-swapping system, industry giants Universal Music and EMI are trying to break new legal …

In all of the media frenzy over the new Apple Music Store, let us not forget a service that people actually seem to use and like: EMusic, whose only problem seems to be that its catalogue is largely confined to the indie label world. Note BJ Johnson’s review from last …

Diabetics beware: Devin Leonard’s feature on the new Apple iTunes Music Store is so larded with sugar and honey it might induce seizures: The real buzz in the music trade is that Steve has just created what is easily the most promising legal digital music service on the market. “I …

Webcast live here. Play-by-play from MacMinute here: Welcome to MacMinute’s live coverage of Apple’s press event! 1:00 Online Apple Store down 1:05 Event has begun Steve Jobs is going over recent annoucments — 12″ PowerBook, 17″ PowerBook, Safari, Keynote, iLife Final Cut Pro 4. “Today we are going to innovate …

Okay, so you finally joined the third millennium and got a DVD player – in three years you’ll be out of date again: Don’t panic; any future player also will handle the discs you buy today. But just as DVDs are of higher quality than TV, digital TV and high-definition …

WiFi continues its rampage: The phone, being announced Monday, is intended for those who move around in the workplace, like nurses and warehouse workers, San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco said. It is not the first phone to use WiFi, but the announcement from networking giant Cisco bolsters the already considerable momentum …

New Apple music service to go live today at 1 PM (EDT) – at $.99 per song it is way overpriced and will do little or nothing to change current habits. I believe the tipping point is somewhere between $.50 and $.25 per song. The Financial Times’ report: Apple Computer …

Please see guest blogger John Parres’ take on Madonna’s genius viral marketing move – the remixes containing the Profane Matron’s utterance of warning continue to proliferate here. Check them out – contribute your own. All the attention seems to be selling old-fashioned CDs: her American Life album just jumped from …

The Apple “surprise announcement” coming Monday, the 28th, isn’t much of a surprise anymore: High-quality design and simplicity of use are expected to be the hallmarks of the new digital music service from Apple Computer ….Label sources tell Bulletin that the service is an a la carte download store — …

This just in: In a case that could turn the tide on online piracy, a Los Angeles judge ruled Friday in favor of online file-sharing services Grokster and Morpheus, saying the two companies are not liable for online piracy by users of their service. The follow-on services to Napster — …