Whitney Houston Train Wreck Pulls Into Europe

Surprise, surprise! Whitney Houston has postponed her European tour.
Houston started her world tour to disastrous reviews in Australia earlier this year so news of the delay in the next leg, the European tour, does not come as an immediate surprise.
A respiratory infection is being blamed for the delay in this tour.
The Whitney show played in [...]

10 Things the Internet Has Killed or Ruined (and Five Things It Hasn’t)

For some people, the Internet is the killer app–literally. From newspapers and the yellow pages to personal privacy and personal contact, the Net has been accused of murdering, eviscerating, ruining, and obliterating more things than the Amazing Hulk. Some claims are more true than others, but the Net certainly has claimed its share of scalps.
Here [...]

Senator Pledges Support for Net Neutrality, Broadband Plan

The powerful chairman of a U.S. Senate committee will push for additional authority for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to enforce net neutrality rules and implement its new national broadband plan, if it’s needed following a court ruling against the agency this month.

The [...]

RIAA - A story posted in 2008 when Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA was at the height of its powers creating, on behalf of its owners, terror and hardship for thousands of families across America.
In 2010, together with their opposite numbers at Hollywood’s MPAA, they’ve escalated their efforts, transforming them [...]

Air Force to add cyberwarfare training

U.S. Air Force recruits will be trained in the basics of cyberwarfare, according to statements made by four-star Air Force Gen. Robert Kehler.
Though details of the plan are still being worked out, according to the Associated Press, the Air Force intends to provide brief training sessions on cyberwarfare to new recruits, most likely an hour [...]

Political and technical fallout of the FCC’s net neutrality court loss

Anthropogenic global warming; single-payer health care: these two huge issues polarize the country, and both arguments see combinations of policy and logic that sometimes succeed, and often fail. Enter a candidate for a third: government regulation of broadband Internet. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) finds itself in the center of this debate because it found [...]

The top 10 singles and albums on iTunes

iTunes’ top 10 selling singles and albums of the week ending April 12, 2010:

FILE - In this July 14, 2006 file photo, singer Pat Monahan of the band ‘Train’ performs on stage during ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ summer concert series in New York.

Singles:
1. “Hey, Soul Sister,” Train
2. “Nothin’ On You (feat. Bruno Mars),” B.o.B
3. [...]

Nas says his focus is now on his music and kids

Nas says his focus is now on his music and kids

FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2008 file photo, singer Kelis, left, and Nas pose on the press line at the Entertainment Weekly Island Def Jam Grammy party in Los Angeles.

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Whitney Houston returns to stage, critics divided

Whitney Houston acknowledges the audience’s applause after performing “I Didn’t Know My Own Strength” at the 2009 American Music Awards in Los Angeles, California November 22, 2009.

LONDON – U.S. singer Whitney Houston kicked off the British leg of her tour late on Tuesday after cancelling a string of gigs due to illness, but some critics [...]

RIAA Insists That Musicians Can’t Make Money Without The RIAA

“Ah, the RIAA blog”, writes Mike Masnick on TechDirt.
” It’s a never-ending source of entertainment”, he says.
It is indeed.
“In the past, they’ve tried (and failed) to address some of my arguments directly, but as someone noted, one of their recent posts again appears directed my way (not just me, but a few [...]