MacNN - The likelihood of the big four music labels licensing their music catalogs to online stores such as Apple's iTunes store without digital rights management (DRM) protection as requested by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in an open letter yesterday is less than
News 14 Raleigh / Durham - RALEIGH - "Get Real. Get Tested.", a public health campaign to encourage people to get tested for HIV, will hold testing events on Feb. 8 in Raleigh and Feb. 9 in Durham. In Raleigh, free testing will be available on Thursday, Feb. 8, in three
Chicago Sun-Times - Admission: $10 for adults; $5 for seniors 62 and older; $5 for children 7-12; children 6 and younger are free when they accompany a paying parent. Advance ticket purchase is available through DriveChicago.com . Weekday discount tickets (half the
New York Times - Who s out? said the voice in the darkness, slurring his words. He sounded slow-witted. Who s out? he cried, using street argot to plead for sellers of crack cocaine. Shavohnna Brisco, then a prostitute living in a traffic tunnel in
Los Angeles Times - If there were a degree-of-difficulty scale for measuring music careers, Mark Linkous probably would lie at the opposite end of the spectrum from, say, Katharine McPhee. Since he began recording under the name Sparklehorse more than 10 years ago
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News.com.au - THREE interstate graffiti hoodlums walked free yesterday after doing thousands of dollars' damage in vandalism on Melbourne's railway yards. Brendon Ussher, 22, Mark Anthony Cameron, 21, and Martin Raymond Weir, 18, flew down from New South Wales to
OptusNet - Steve Jobs, the co-founder and CEO of Apple, has posted an open message to record companies, asking them to abolish security software that prevents music bought online from playing on different types of MP3 players. Mr Jobs says Apple will
Herald Tribune - The talks, requested by the U.S., come amid an impasse between the two countries over the resumption of American beef imports that Washington says threatens a free trade agreement currently under negotiation. The first day of discussions Wednesday in