- CRTC approves new internet rates, speed options
- Facebook to address privacy concerns by Monday
- Woz wows ‘em in Waterloo
- Fair Copyright Coalition editorializes in Georgia Straight
- Pirate Party of Canada gets a website facelift
- CKBA The Fox now The Fox in Athabasca, AB
- OZ FM flips format, now The Rock of the Rock’
- Student funded to create wiki site for Canadian music
- International
- UK music academy opens first US branch
- Entertainment industry gets jolly with new Pirate Bay
- Teens just won’t pay for music, survey reports
- Qtrax faces more financial, legal problems
- Apple, record labels competing with enhanced album formats
- Technology
- MySpace reported to be acquiring iLike for $20m
- iLike deal puts MySpace in Facebook’s face
- Houston seeks radio using Facebook friends
- RIM picked No. One by Fortune
- Dell joins stampede to launch smartphone
- Web video viewership up, but where’s the cash?
- Sony stung by losses, delays thin TV
- CBC launches free iPhone app
- Telus TV now has over 100k subscribers
- Typical Rogers wireless customer spends $73 monthly
- Steve Jobs: The man who polished Apple
- Talent/Features
- Shania may judge on ‘Idol’
- Anne Murray to host Walk of Fame gala
- Alanis Morissette tells Rolling Stone she has projects planned
- Mike Gouchie lands opening slot on 11 date Possum tour
- Motley Crue rolls on with sub for injured Tommy Lee
- Judge approves MJ merchandising deal
- Jackson’s mother considering wrongful death suit
- Lost Beatles chats feature in new BBC film doc
- MC Hammer plots companion piece to 1991 hit album
- Madonna loves Jesus (Luz)
- Macca 1952 highschool picture on auction
- Woodstock CDs Rub Mud Off Fabled Sets by Who, Dead, Airplane
- Neil Young: ‘Woodstock was a bullshit gig, a piece of shit’
- Out of the mud of Woodstock grew a huge tree of greed
- The backlash against Woodstock
- PopMatters celebrates Casablanca Records’ anniversary
- The sorry state of music criticism
- Want a green music collection, go digital
- Holy Moldy: Red Admiral reissues Chrispian St Peters album
- One man standing: Love back on road recreating the past
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