Study: P2P effect on legal music sales "not statistically distinguishable from zero"
By Ken Fisher | Published: February 12, 2007 - 08:49AM CT

A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims ( Read more... )

Apple apologises after slashing iPhone price
By Gary Cleland

Last Updated: 1:53am BST 07/09/2007

Apple has apologised and promised to give credit notes to customers who have bought iPhones after slashing the price of the must-have gadget within weeks of its release.

Steve Jobs, the technology firm's CEO, announced the move in a letter on Apple's ( Read more... )

Fair use is not a consumer right

By Patrick Ross, News.com
Published on ZDNet News: Sep 6, 2007 10:00:00 AM
The Computer and Communications Industry Association in August implored the Federal Trade Commission in a filing to parse through language found in copyright warnings appearing before movies, television sporting events and other places.
In a ( Read more... )

Pavarotti dead at 71

Thu Sep 6, 2007 9:31AM BST
By Gilles Castonguay
MODENA, Italy (Reuters) - Legendary Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who brought opera to the masses, died on Thursday after a battle with cancer. He was 71.

"The great tenor Luciano Pavarotti died today at 5 a.m. (4 a.m. BST) at his home in Modena," his manager Terri Robson said in a ( Read more... )

Mattel announces third Chinese toy recall
Wed Sep 5, 2007 9:16AM EDT


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SINGAPORE, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Singapore's Straits Times Index <.STI> was flat at 0319 GMT.

Stocks and factors to watch:

Fraser & Neave (FRNM.SI: Quote, Profile , Research) rose as much as 1.8 percent to S$5.05 with 470,000 shares changing hands on investor hope that SingTel's former chief executive Lee Hsien Yang will join the beer-to-property ( Read more... )

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Rock stars do die before they get old

By Clive Cookson, Science Editor

Published: September 3 2007 19:50 | Last updated: September 3 2007 19:50

Pop and rock stars really do live fast and die young, the first comprehensive study of musicians’ mortality, published on Tuesday, says.

They are twice as likely as the rest of the population to die an early ( Read more... )

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오랫동안 어깨를 누르던 무거운 짐을 내려놓고
시원한 기지개를 펴는 사람처럼
너는 나의 사랑 내려놓고 홀가분한 마음으로
바람의 한숨 쉬고 날아가겠지

파란 저 하늘빛에 물들은 채로 불어오는 바람에 흩날려
봄 햇살 맞으며 춤추는 하얀 꽃잎처럼
너는 그렇게 날아간 것 같아
조용히 날으는 아지랑이의 물결처럼
너는 그렇게 날아간 것 같아

너에게는 내려놓고 싶던 내가 없어 정말 편안한지
남겨진 내게 미안하진 않은지

파란 저 하늘빛에 물 들은 채로 불어오는 가벼운 바람에
살짝 흔들리는 어린 연두 빛 나뭇잎과
나들이 가는 기쁜 연인들의
부드러운 웃음소리 가득한 어느 오후
잠시 우리의 ( Read more... )

Vienna
Billy Joel

Slow down you crazy child
You
But then if you
Are you still so afraid?

Where
You better cool it off before you burn it out
You got so much to do and only
So many hours in a day

But you know that when the truth is told
That you can get what you want
Or you can just get old
You
When will you realize...vienna waits for you

Slow down you
You can
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