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Viacom sues YouTube for $1 billion

Just days after Google (GOOG, news, msgs) CEO Eric Schmidt said that media companies will have no choice but to work with online sites such as YouTube, the first of the big media companies has responded — with a $1 billion lawsuit. Media giant Viacom (VIA, news, msgs) is charging that the video-sharing site, now owned by Google, has shown

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Reading and Leeds Music Festival 2007 Website Update!

w00t theres been a Reading and Leeds Music Festival 2007 Update. A brand new spanking Reading and Leeds Music Festival website is being built and will be launched on Saturday the 17th of March 2007 at 7:00pm. This site will be available at the following addresses: http://www.readingfestival.com/ http://www.leedsfestival.com/ Which at this current point in time tell you that on monday the

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All aboard the bus from London to Sydney!

For £3,750 you can take a 12-week bus ride from London to Sydney. The journey will take you through 20 countries including Turkey, Iran, India, China and Malaysia. The first trip leaves in September, with plans already in place for two more services, departing in January and May 2008. In a way it reminds me of the Summer Holiday, a British musical

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Reading Festival 2007 Rumours

Reading Festival 2007 is still several months away and I’m already excited, so excited that I still haven’t picked who’s going with me for free, yep you heard me right, last year I was a winner on the Microsoft Windows Live Sessions Fans Competition which gave me the chance to go with a friend (or someone very special 😉 ) to one of the various Major

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Will Music Festivals survive the web 2.0 revolution?

I was just reading a post by Samantha Wilcox who was wondering whether the whole social media thing is going to impact on ticket sales to Music Festivals. What do you think, will people continue to pay to camp in muddy fields and share toilets with thousands of other people when they can get it all streamlined via a selection

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The Great Escape 2007 – More Artists & Speakers Announced!

The Great Escape Festival returns on the 17th-19th May bringing the best of live music from across the World back to Brighton. ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT! – More Artists announced for 2007: Barfly are excited to announce that the following artists have been added to the bill for this year’s Great Escape Festival:This follows last week’s announcement where we confirmed that The Besnard

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Headliners for Virgin Mobile V Festival 2007

Virgin Radio have just this moment exclusively revealed the headliners of the 12th Virgin Mobile V Festival on the 18th and 19th of August 2007 as The Killers, Foo Fighters and Snow Patrol. Other bands confirmed to play are Virgin Radio regulars Mika, The Kooks, The Fratellis, The Fray, The Goo Goo Dolls, Manic Street Preachers, James Morrison, KT Tunstall, Damien Rice,

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Microsoft & BT Launch connected services sandbox competitions

Yesterday at 3GSM World Congress 2007, Microsoft Corp. and BT announced the launch of the Connected Services Sandbox competition series to help promote the development of innovative customer solutions that merge traditional telecommunications offerings such as voice or text messaging with Web 2.0 applications such as mapping or search. The competitions will be managed by TopCoder Inc., a leader in online

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Microsoft Reveals New Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone Software

Microsoft today unveiled Windows Mobile 6, the newest version of its mobile software platform. By improving usability and adding support for Microsoft Office features previously available only on PCs, Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 delivers to the small screen a familiar and rich experience that meets the needs of work and life while on the go, all with a single device.