| SanDisk detaches music from the PC with Wi-Fi downloads
SanDisk has announced a second partnership with a US online music service, its new Sansa Connect portable music player providing direct Wi-Fi access to Yahoo!'s subscription-based downloads. Last year SanDisk, the second biggest supplier of portable players in the US, began pre-loading music from Real Networks' Rhapsody service on its Sansa e200 players. But the tie-up with Yahoo! goes further. The flash-based Sansa Connect can connect via any open Wi-Fi connection to download tracks. It can also listen to LAUNCHcast Internet radio, .
Music videos' new age
And you almost have to be 21 or older to remember the days of music videos on television. The lack of music videos on cable's Music Television has become a joke, so much so that 14-year-olds miss the point. For them, the M in MTV stands for something else. Call it Me TV - or even Myopia Television, specializing in the pseudo-reality of shows such as "Real World: Denver," "The Hills" and "Bam's Unholy Union." Music videos are the bright snippets that play in small windows during the credits to "Laguna Beach" - a far cry from the heyday of primetime music-video programming. At first, the death of videos on television was something fans mourned in the '90s - a loss for followers of the still-new visual art form. Directors such as Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry were just emerging as the music video's stars, but suddenly their vision was being hacked and shortened and eventually made extinct - on television, at least.
CNET TV Reviews Best Free Music Downloads
LOS ANGELES, CA Tuesday Apr.17.2007 /netmusiccountdown.com/ -- Download.com Music and CNET TV have teamed up to bring you some of the best free music downloads on the internet. This week's featured artists from the Download Crew include Dinosaur Jr and their new track, "Almost Ready," New York group Battles, and one of the hottest new urban acts, The MIMS.Check out free tunes by these artists and more at http://music.download.com.
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Video chains gird loins for going online
WHEN movies shifted from videocassettes to DVD, retailers in the US simply cleared the tapes off the shelves to make room for discs.
That's not so easy now that movies appear poised to follow music onto the internet. The shift of music online has hurt stores such as Best Buy, Wal-Mart and Circuit City, and some retailers are looking to avoid a repeat with movies. Wal-Mart has launched its own movie download service, Best Buy is said to be in talks to start one, and Blockbuster explored buying movie download company Movielink earlier this year. Music and DVDs are important to retailers because they've traditionally driven customers to stores. Each week's new releases give people a reason to come back. And for electronics retailers such as Best Buy and Circuit City Stores, discs are often a cheap impulse sale, unlike a pricey computer or TV.
The DAILY REPORT for April 23, 2007
Carol Ewy, Hartford; Baileigh Isabella Mertens, Madison; Shawna Villa and baby girl Villa, Emporia; Alice Wendt, Herington; Wendy Winchester, Emporia. Dismissed Saturday: Samuel Byington, Neosho Rapids; Shelby Linn Crane, Virgil; Opal Dacus, Emporia; Richard Hinson, Emporia; Jerson Rasean Terrell-Mejia, Emporia. Admitted Sunday: Carolyn Clark, Topeka; Linda Fritz, Emporia; Jennifer Jones, Emporia; Ty Jamison Larson, Emporia; Warnetta Scott, Emporia; Betty Titus, Virgil; Bailey Wiggins, Americus; Emmajean Wood, Lebo; Henry Wylie, Jackson, Tenn. DISMISSED SUNDAY: Phillip Hahn, Emporia; Baileigh Isabella Mertens, Madison. POLICE & SHERIFF Complaints Filed Police John M. Coseutino, Leawood, driving 73 miles per hour in a 40 mile per hour construction zone, April 20.
I am NO nazi says Bryan Ferry
A misinterpretated interview with Bryan Ferry is causing lots of mayhem in the German and British press. In an interview with the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, the Roxy Music frontman described how he likes the esthetics of the Nazi era with its parades, flags and costumes. Ferry: "Leni Riefenstahl's movies and Albert Speer's buildings and the mass parades and the flags (are) just amazing. Really beautiful," he said. He also added his studio is named "Fuhrerbunker" after Adolf Hitler's HQ. Soon after the interview got out, the words were re-interpretated as if Ferry was actually a neo-nazi. Not really what the singer had in mind when he gave the interview. The Roxy Music singer, currently starring in a high-profile advertising campaign for British department store Marks & Spencer, is now being tagged as "a threat for Israel", a pure "Hitler whore" and more.
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