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Music Fans Get the Chance to Play with Over 40 Interactive Singles from Major Artists
(Business Wire) -- MXP4 announced that over 40 artists are now using MXP4`s interactive digital music solution to power interactive singles. MXP4`s solution allows fans to interact with songs and play with the music... Michael Jackson & The Jackson 5, Sliimy, Dave Stewart, Pet Shop Boys, La Roux, Speech Debelle & Bat For Lashes amongst leading artists releasing interactive digital singles.

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iTunes LP: The First Digital Album Good Enough to Criticize
By Pete Mortensen -- Of all of Apple's announcements, only the digital album format iTunes LP (also known as Cocktail) qualifies as a major improvement to a nascent technology. Simply put, though Apple long ago figured out how to sell music as digital downloads, it's taken until now for them or anyone else to get in the ballpark of how to make those downloads feel anywhere near as special as a physical CD or LP.

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TuneWiki for iPhone
By Brian Beam -- Ever sing along to a song, only to realize you're mumbling through half of it because you only know part of the lyrics? If so, give TuneWiki a try. Once available only for jailbroken iPhones, TuneWiki serves as a media player and song lyric database.

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Twilight of the iPods
Sales of Apple's music player are heading for a long-term decline which could affect digital music downloads. Can connectivity alter that? Charles Arthur investigates.

Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Mobile Web & Augmented Reality
By Richard Macmanus -- This week ReadWriteWeb is running a series of posts analyzing the 5 biggest Web trends of 2009. So far we've explored these trends: Structured Data, The Real-Time Web, Personalization. The fourth part of our series is on Mobile Web. We're including Augmented Reality in this category, as we think it's a key element of where the Mobile Web is heading circa 2009.

Pigeon Transfers Data Faster than South Africa's Telkom
By Peroshni Govender -- A South African information technology company on Wednesday proved it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom, the country's leading internet service provider.