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The Man Who Broke the Music Business
By Stephen Witt One Saturday in 1994, Bennie Lydell Glover, a temporary employee at the PolyGram compact-disk manufacturing plant in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, went to a party at the house of a co-worker. He was angling for a permanent … Continue reading
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Tagged business, digital music, ennie Lydell Glover, MP3, music, technology
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Tidal Review – Jay Z Streaming Service Test
It’s been two weeks since Tidal, the new music-streaming platform owned by Jay Z and a handful of pop’s highest-ranking Illuminati members, launched with an ostentatiously—almost clumsily—star-studded promotional video. In the time since, there’s been a flood of thinkpieces and … Continue reading
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Tagged business, cloud, Jay-Z, music, streaming, technology, TIDAL
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Will Jay-Z lead artists into a powerful new digital era?
By Ashahed M. Muhammad Jay-Z rarely uses social media so when he used his Twitter account to communicate with his 3.1 million followers, people kind of knew something was brewing. It was seen as a major move when the Hip … Continue reading
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Tagged business, digital music, entertainment, Jay-Z, money, music, Pandora, Rhapsody, Spotify, technology, TIDAL
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Edits to Wikipedia pages on Bell, Garner, Diallo traced to 1 Police Plaza
By Kelly Weill http://flickr.com/photo/35034362831@N01/2456817669 Computers operating on the New York Police Department’s computer network at its 1 Police Plaza headquarters have been used to alter Wikipedia pages containing details of alleged police brutality, a review by Capital has revealed. … Continue reading
In Kansas City, Superfast Internet And A Digital Divide
Kansas City has some of the Internet’s best service anywhere. Providers there jostle for customers who can now expect broadband that’s about 100 times faster than the national average. But, four years after Google Fiber landed in Kansas City, people … Continue reading
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Tagged economic access, Google Fiber, internet, Kansas City, technology
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SoftBank Said to Enter Direct Talks on Sprint-T-Mobile Deal
By Alex Sherman and Aaron Kirchfeld SoftBank Corp., which is seeking to combine its Sprint Corp. (S) unit with T-Mobile US Inc., has entered direct talks with T-Mobile’s owner Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) to resolve obstacles to a potential deal, … Continue reading
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Tagged business, Deutsche Telekom, Masayoshi Son, Softbank, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, technology, wireless
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NSA reportedly using radio waves to tap offline computers
By Steven Musil The National Security Agency is using secret wireless technology that allows it to access and alter data on computers, even when they are not connected to the Internet, according to a New York Times report. Since 2008, … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, National Security Agency, NSA, privacy, surveillance, technology
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Selfies allow black women to say we are here, and we are beautiful
By Syreeta McFadden When others recognize you being present in a world of wonder, you feel the joy of existence. That’s why we take selfies. They are pixelated bits of confection to remind us that we are all interconnected, no … Continue reading →