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Quick! Start Downloading iTunes Before Apple Changes its Mind

Hey, what’s up with Apple? First CEO Steve Jobs gives a non-update update on his health - a hormone imbalance? - and then the company announces today it’s going to lower the price of downloading iTunes and lift some of its restrictions on copying the songs, Bloomberg reports.
This is all happening at Macworld in San [...]

Another Tough Year for the Music Business

As 2009 begins, the music business finds itself starting the year in a difficult position, once again. Music sales declined for the seventh time in eight years, the Wall Street Journal reports. Sales of compact discs fell by 20 percent. Even album sales, which traditionally do well in the last three months of the year, [...]

Hooligan Top Ten Playlist

COMBAT OUTPOST ZORMAT, Afghanistan – A friend emailed me to say that all my journalism is for naught if I don’t report what 1st Platoon Hooligans are listening to these days. While I don’t concede the point, I did put the question to the platoon as they waited — in vain, it turned out — [...]