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            <title>BlueBeat hit with restraining order for selling Beatles tracks</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200945/4744/BlueBeat-hit-with-restraining-order-for-selling-Beatles-tracks</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A federal judge in the United States has handed music heavyweight EMI an initial victory in the copyright infringement case it recently brought against online service BlueBeat for streaming and selling Beatles content without authorisation.

Specifically, Judge John Walter of the District Court of Los Angeles has issued a temporary order against BlueBeat parent Media Rights Technologies Inc.]]></description>
            <author>Stevie Smith</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Walmart offers top-10 DVD pre-orders for $9.99 each</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Movie lovers looking to score a retail bargain while enriching their celluloid collections might want to head over to Walmart with wallets wide open and willing at their earliest possible opportunity. 

Specifically, a quick visit to Walmart.com will safely secure any of the retailer’s current top-10 DVD pre-orders for a mere $9.99 USD each, which covers major movies such as Star Trek, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, and Night at The Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.]]></description>
            <author>Stevie Smith</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Beatles for sale... illegally, online, and on the cheap</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200945/4737/Beatles-for-sale-illegally-online-and-on-the-cheap</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Hitting the news in the same week music labels EMI and Apple announced an ‘apple-shaped’ USB device equipped with 14 remastered albums from The Beatles, an online streaming service in the United States faces legal action for selling The Fab Four’s back catalogue without permission.]]></description>
            <author>Stevie Smith</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>NBA brings live games to hoop-obsessed mobile owners</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200944/4711/NBA-brings-live-games-to-hoop-obsessed-mobile-owners</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Fan of the National Basketball Association (NBA) but can’t find the time to faithfully follow your favourite team because you’re always on the move? Relax, dear reader, because your passion for televised hoops is about to resume – albeit on a markedly smaller display screen.]]></description>
            <author>Stevie Smith</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Temporary Sky Player hiccup for Xbox 360 users</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200944/4697/Temporary-Sky-Player-hiccup-for-Xbox-360-users</link>
            <description><![CDATA[With main videogame rival Sony this week announcing a catch-up deal to bring popular movie and TV streaming service Netflix to the PlayStation 3, Microsoft’s plan to provide Xbox 360 owners with access to the Sky Player entertainment platform has been hit by a technical snag.]]></description>
            <author>Stevie Smith</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Grooveshark and EMI join forces in streaming deal</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200943/4665/Grooveshark-and-EMI-join-forces-in-streaming-deal</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Grooveshark users rejoice, because your levels of access and enjoyment just got considerably better thanks to a content deal with EMI Group, the world’s fourth biggest music distribution label. 

“EMI Music and EMI Music Publishing have collaborated with us to create a mutually sustainable deal which represents the future of digital music,” enthused Grooveshark CEO Sam Tarantino in an official statement.]]></description>
            <author>Stevie Smith</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Napster launches cheap streaming subscription service</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200942/4596/Napster-launches-cheap-streaming-subscription-service</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Once seen as a something of a scapegoat during the dodgy music download witch hunt, Napster has not only since become a legitimate download service, it has also now transmogrified to become a budget-friendly avenue for seemingly insatiable music lovers.

More pointedly, Napster has launched a subscription-based usage service that grants its UK audience with access to unlimited music streaming and five free MP3 downloads in return for just 5.00 GBP per month.]]></description>
            <author>Stevie Smith</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>European Commission restricts MP3 output to 80 decibels</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200940/4528/European-Commission-restricts-MP3-output-to-80-decibels</link>
            <description><![CDATA[If it’s not already annoying enough that television censors hold sway on what we can and cannot watch regarding content, it would appear that the European Union is pushing to add further restrictions to the sound levels of our mobile audio.

Citing concerns over potential damage to the hearing of those equipped with mobile MP3 music players, the European Commission has this week issued a revised set of volume standards to govern headphone sound output.]]></description>
            <author>Stevie Smith</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>2.25 million re-mastered sales: The Beatles are officially still Fab</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200939/4495/2-25-million-re-mastered-sales-The-Beatles-are-officially-still-Fab</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Activision’s Guitar Hero 5 might be casting something of a retail shadow over rival release The Beatles: Rock Band, but The Fab Four’s appeal beyond the realms of console gaming remains beyond question after rocketing sales of the band’s re-released albums.]]></description>
            <author>Stevie Smith</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>New Epson offerings project LCD entertainment</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200937/4382/New-Epson-offerings-project-LCD-entertainment</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Granted, 1080p high-definition LCD televisions might be all the rage as humble CRT technology gets pushed inexorably towards extinction, but does anyone lovingly recall the days when wall-filling projectors posed the biggest threat to conventional TVs and were seen as the next ‘big’ thing?]]></description>
            <author>Stevie Smith</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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