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I like the one week break between the Conference Finals and the Superbowl: it keeps a lid on the hype, which really seems to pick up steam in the second week. This year it seems more like a big game than a Roman Spectacle, and since the weight of the …

Anderson Merchandisers, the largest magazine wholesaler in the United States and Wal-Mart’s music distributor, has bought Liquid Audio’s technology and other assets: Liquid Audio was at the forefront in developing technology to deliver music securely online but has been in financial straits recently and has suffered through a nasty boardroom …

My sweet, beautiful, thoughtful, beloved 18 year-old daughter – who is in Americorps for a year before college – called a couple of days ago all excited: she had attended her first anti-war rally last weekend, and marched and shouted slogans, and listened to “Jesse Jackson and Jessica Lange speak!!” …

Privacy concerns and spam, bit Internet concerns. Network Solutions blows it on both fronts: “A few thousand” Network Solutions customers received e-mail messages that contained more than 85,000 e-mail addresses of other Network Solutions customers, said spokesman Patrick Burns of VeriSign Inc., the parent company of Network Solutions. “We made …

Our buds at Amazon show a quarterly profit for the second time: Amazon’s performance, and the rebound in its stock price since last summer, might surprise those who assumed Internet companies were better left for dead after the dot-com implosion. But analysts say Amazon and a core group of Internet …

A new group, the Alliance for Digital Progress (ADP), combines tech giants Microsoft, Cisco, Intel and Apple, as well as consumer groups and think tanks: The new group is trying to prevent any new attempts at legislation that would require the introduction of technology that makes it hard to copy …

The Economist presents a wide ranging, boldly ambitious consideration of “The Internet Society,” looking at the conditions and ramifications of where we are now and where we are going in a connected world. The information is edifying and some of the conclusions are surprising. The whole endeavor is bookended by …

Charles Mann takes a spirited look at the future of the recording industry as we know it – it could disappear in the very near future: As recently as 10 years ago, the media conglomerates that own record labels regarded them as cash cows – smaller than Hollywood but more …

Actress/singer was 54: Nell Carter, who played the sassy, matronly housekeeper on the 1980s sitcom “Gimme a Break!” and received a Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway musical “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” died Thursday, her publicist said. ….Carter was in rehearsals at a Long Beach theater for “Raisin,” the musical …

American Idol 2’s debut Tuesday night drew the largest audience ever for a Fox non-sports show, 26.5 million viewers tuned in: It eclipsed the 22.8 million people who watched Kelly Clarkson win the first “American Idol” competition in September. “We’re having a very happy day at Fox,” said Entertainment President …