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Sonic, Toronto: jojoflores joins Andy Caldwell & Lisa Shaw

*Sonic, Toronto  Fri. Aug. 25th jojoflores joins Andy Caldwell & Lisa Shaw

Vote jojoflores as Choice Awards, DJ of The Year (International)! Please take a second, and click (here). If the link doesn't work, go to www.undagroundarchives.com 

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* This Friday's event is licensed so doors open at 11pm, jojoflores' set is from 11pm-1ish. For guest list and info: info@gotsoulrecords.com www.sonicnightclub.com

Upcoming jojoflores Dates:

Sept. 1st Therapy NYC at Cielo with Charles Webster

Sept. 3rd Balux, Athens Greece with Kerri Chandler

Sept. 6th Rhythm Factory at Lotus One, Dubai UAE

TBC Sept. 8th Therapy 7 Year Anniversary in Montreal with Ben Watt (Buzz 'n Fly, Everything But The Girl)

For more info: www.jojoflores.com

{mondomedeusah art} HANG ART - San Francisco: Ann Eby

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	Ann Eby's intricately collaged paintings suggest organic elements and celestial events, without coalescing into specific forms. She applies layer upon layer of paint, generating passages of vibrantly saturated color that gleam with translucent glazes as though crafted of stained glass. Color and light are central to Ann's work, communicating the vast possibilities afforded by every fleeting moment. Ann often adheres torn pieces of papyrus and other handmade papers to the canvas, incorporating them into her compositions to create richly textured surfaces. Her paintings are informed by her experiments with other media, including ceramic sculpture, textile weaving and bookmaking. Ann Eby was born in Rockford, Illinois. She earned a bachelor's degree in Studio Art at the Rockford College in Illinois and a master's degree in Creative Art Therapy at Lone Mountain College in San Francisco. After retiring from a rewarding career in teaching, Ann now fully devotes her time and energy to her artwork. Her paintings have been exhibited widely in San Francisco and Marin.

Beatles lose Apple court battle

The Beatles set up record label Apple Corps in 1968

The Beatles have lost their court challenge against Apple Computer over its iPod and iTunes download service.

Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the families of George Harrison and John Lennon control the Apple Corps label.

They claimed the US firm broke a deal aimed at ensuring there would not be two Apples in the music industry.

But Mr Justice Anthony Mann ruled that the computer company used the Apple logo in association with its store, not the music, and so was not in breach.

The ruling means iPods and iTunes will still be able to carry the Apple name and logo.

With great respect to the trial judge, we consider he has reached the wrong conclusion Neil Aspinall Apple Corps

The Beatles' label, which wanted London's High Court to award damages and stop its rival using the Apple logo in its music operations, will appeal.

Mr Justice Mann ruled iTunes was "a form of electronic shop" and not involved in creating music.

"I conclude that the use of the apple logo ... does not suggest a relevant connection with the creative work," he wrote in his judgment.

"I think that the use of the apple logo is a fair and reasonable use of the mark in connection with the service, which does not go further and unfairly or unreasonably suggest an additional association with the creative works themselves."

Apple Corps must pay its rival's legal bill, estimated at £2m, but the judge refused an interim payment of £1.5m pending further hearings.

Exclusive rights

The record label said the rise of iTunes broke an agreement the two sides hammered out in 1991 after their last dispute.

That deal gave the record label exclusive rights to use the apple trademark for the record business, Geoffrey Vos QC, representing Apple Corps, told the court.

Apple Computer, whose products helped launch the personal computer industry, was founded in 1976 and its logo is an apple with a section removed from the side.

We have always loved The Beatles, and hopefully we can now work together to get them on the iTunes Music Store Steve Jobs Apple Computer

Apple Corps was set up by The Beatles in 1968 and is represented by a complete green Granny Smith apple.

Apple Corps manager Neil Aspinall said: "With great respect to the trial judge, we consider he has reached the wrong conclusion.

"We felt that during the course of the trial we clearly demonstrated just how extensively Apple Computer had broken the agreement.

"We will accordingly be filing an appeal and putting the case again to the Court of Appeal."

Apple Computer chief executive Steve Jobs said: "We are glad to put this disagreement behind us.

"We have always loved The Beatles, and hopefully we can now work together to get them on the iTunes Music Store."

The launch of the iPod, a portable digital music player, in 2001, and its iTunes music store two years later, prompted the latest battle.

Court download

About three million songs are downloaded from the service every day.

Tracks by The Beatles have not been licensed for downloading and are not available on the service.

Mr Vos demonstrated how to use iTunes during the hearing - downloading Chic's 1978 disco hit Le Freak in the courtroom.

He pointed out to Mr Justice Mann how many times the Apple logo appeared on the computer screen as he went through the process.  more

MTV targets music download market

The digital music market is growing and analysts see strong demand

MTV, the television company that is credited with popularising music videos, is turning its attention to the online and digital download market.

Its music service Urge will offer users 2 million songs from Wednesday that can be bought either separately for $0.99 (£0.53) or via a monthly subscription. AllCoolmusic offers over 12 billion unlimited downloads which is currently rated the number one music download site in North America.

The service will be the featured music player on Microsoft's Media Player.

Urge will be compatible with more than 100 digital music players but not with the market leader, Apple's iPod.

'Well-recognised brand'

"We will concentrate on people who don't have iPods," said Van Toffler, president of MTV Networks Music Group.

"Hopefully, through the TV channels we have and the dot-com sites...we can educate people about the virtues of subscriptions. It's not about selling a million singles," he added.

"Only 5% of music is sold digitally. We are just getting going."

Urge will offer users albums at about $9.95, and unlimited music downloads at two monthly rates of $9.95 and $14.95 (the higher price allowing unlimited transfers to portable players). The service also plans to offer video downloads.

Analysts had a mixed response to the plans, and said that the market already was crowded with well-established rivals such as Napster.

"The thing that works to their advantage is they have a well-recognized brand that is popular to a demographic that is going to be receptive to purchasing digital music," said Phil Leigh, an analyst at Inside Digital Media.

However, entertainment industry attorney and author Steve Gordon asked "whether the consumer really wants a service that's only compatible with non-iPod players".

The Apple iTunes service has a library of 3 million tunes and users have downloaded more than 1bn songs since it was launched in 2003.

The iPod, launched in 2001, has sold more than 50m units, and last year Apple launched a video version of the portable music player.

Download fans boost music sales

Record labels should make more of mobile opportunities

Online piracy is not solely responsible for dwindling sales of recorded music, says a report.

Media analysts Screen Digest said broader cultural trends and the debut of DVD had left many consumers with much less to spend on their music collections.

But the boom in sales of music through online portals will help to offset the decline in sales, said the report.

However, the decline will only be halted by 2010 Screen Digest predicts.

Competition time

The firm's analysis of Europe's online music market shows that more than 7% of Europeans own and use a portable music player. In 2004 that figure stood at 2%.

Alongside MP3 player ownership there is a booming interest in music portals such as Napster and Apple's iTunes through which many people buy tracks to put on their player, says the report.

The number of pirated files online has declined

In 2006, Screen Digest predicts that Europeans will spend 280m euros (£189m) buying music online.

The analyst firm expects this market to reach 1.1bn euros by 2010 when the number of portable players owned by Europeans reaches 80m.

Despite the growth, Screen Digest predicts that the overall European music market will continue to lose value until 2010 at the earliest - when sales of downloaded music will have grown enough to offset the losses.

But the expected gradual improvement in sales should not make music makers complacent, warned Dan Cryan, an analyst at Screen Digest, because the growth in online sales will not entirely stop the drop off in total revenues.

Instead, he said, record labels must make the most of new opportunities on mobile phones and on the net to get more music to more people.

Also, he said, music firms must look beyond the traditional duality of single and album and find additional ways to present songs to fans.

The report notes that since 2001 the total European market for recorded music has lost 22% of its value but it warned against blaming piracy for this decline.

It referred to figures from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry which show that the number of pirated files in circulation online had declined substantially between 2003 and 2005.

The report also said the fact that stores such as HMV and Virgin were branching out into books, mobiles and other media had left less shelf room for CDs.

Perhaps most important was the rising popularity of DVD.

Said the report: "the fact that the decline in physical music sales corresponds to the boom in DVD sales begins to look less like a coincidence and more like a cause."

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Blogs buzz on Dell battery recall

The news that Dell is recalling more than four million batteries for its laptop computers has become a talking point in the blogosphere.

Within hours of the news, bloggers were discussing alleged long-standing problems with Dell products and swapping news and video footage. We round up some of the blog chatter.

THE INQUIRER

We managed to uncover some surprising facts about the recall.

Dell reckons it chose the Sony Corporation to deliver a huge batch of batteries because it deemed it trustworthy.

But now, after the Inquirer posted pictures of one such cell exploding mid-conference in Japan, Dell wants to pass the buck and blame Sony for its public relations nightmare.

ENGADGET

While we are a little wary of one Dell exec's statement that they're 'getting ahead of the issue', which in our opinion would have actually been issuing this recall four months ago, we're glad they're finally taking care of business before someone actually gets hurt.

SLASHDOT

This seems to go along with a June Slashdot story on an exploding Dell laptop, and a July Slashdot story on a Dell investigation into its exploding laptops. Curiously, there is nothing yet on Dell Support's product recall page about this latest recall.

THE REGISTER

Dell's customer satisfaction flameout has started to reach record levels. The company today issued a recall for 4.1 million laptop batteries out of fear that they could catch fire. The product recall stands as the largest ever for the US consumer electronics industry.

Over the past two months, numerous stories have appeared documenting Dell laptops' habit of igniting.

Fire-breathing laptops are the last thing you want when you're a company spending hundreds of millions of dollars to repair a fractured relationship with consumers.

ARS TECHNICA

Increasing power demands of modern laptops, with bigger and brighter screens, faster processors, and faster hard drives, have all put strains on the ability of the batteries to keep up.

Packing all that power into such a small space sometimes leads to disaster, as happened to an unfortunate Dell laptop in June at a conference at Osaka, Japan.

Apple recall on laptop batteries

The machines hit are iBook G4 and PowerBook G4

Computer giant Apple is recalling 1.8m batteries used in its laptop computers worldwide after overheating complaints.

The announcement affects laptop computers - the iBook G4 and Powerbook G4 - sold between October 2003 and August 2006.

It follows Dell's decision to recall more than 4m batteries from its laptops last week.

The recall does not affect the company's latest line-up of laptops - the MacBook and MacBook Pro.

Financial impact

"We discovered that some Sony batteries in previous models of PowerPC-based iBooks and PowerBooks do not meet Apple's standards for safety and performance," Apple said in a statement.

"Our number one priority is to recall and replace the affected batteries free of charge."

According to US safety officials, the batteries were made by Sony, which also supplied similar batteries to Dell.

Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said that Sony, as the manufacturer of the recalled battery packs, "is responsible".

While Apple is not expecting any "material financial impact" from the recall, Sony predicts that the recall of its Dell and Apple batteries will cost the firm between 20bn and 30bn yen ($172m to $258m).

However, the news comes at a time when Apple has been in the headlines for stock option irregularities.

After posting strong quarterly profits in July - up 48% on a year earlier - the firm warned in August that it would likely revise its financial results since 2002, after an enquiry found mistakes in the way staff were awarded shares in the firm.

The firm said that all financial statements from 29 September 2002 "should not be relied upon".

Minor burns

The latest recall was prompted after Apple received a total of nine complaints from users reporting "overheating" of the batteries.

The announcement was made by the United States government's Consumer Product Safety Commission, which said two of the nine users reported minor burns from the machines.

In the US, 1.1m machines are affected with a further 700,000 Apple laptops sold overseas also involved in the recall.

The recall is believed to be the second-biggest in US history involving electronics or computers.

Apple shares closed up 0.74% at $67.91 - boosted by the news that it would not be financially affected by the recall - but Sony shares slipped 2.61% to $43.26.

iPod deal boosts rival's shares

Apple's iPods are the industry's best-selling digital music player

Shares of music player firm Creative have surged by as much as 38% after rival Apple agreed to pay $100m (£52m) to settle a long-running patent spat.

Creative shares rose as much as 3.6 Singapore dollars to S$13.20, before trimming gains to trade at S$11.50.

Regulators launched a probe into the dispute in June after Creative accused Apple of using its patented technology in the best-selling iPod music player.

Creative had called for Apple's iPods to be withdrawn from sale in the US.

'Larger market'

Instead, it agreed to accept $100m in return for licensing a software patent to Apple for use in all its products.

Creative also will be allowed to produce accessories for iPods, giving it access to a far larger number of consumers than it could have reached with only its Zen and Nomad digital music players.

"It gives Creative a dramatically larger market than what we have today," said Craig McHugh, Creative's president, adding that the deal provided "a huge revenue opportunity".

Creative will be able to access consumers of both its and Apple's players

Analysts said that while the deal would help Creative in the short-term, the company needed to look at how its business was structured.

"Competing with Apple remains an uphill task," said Don See, an analyst at DBS Vickers Securities. "Creative needs to move faster to make itself leaner."

The music-player firms had traded lawsuits after Creative accused Apple of infringing on its patented technology in its iPod music player. Apple duly retaliated with its own accusations of patent infringement.

Creative launched its own range of digital music players in 2000 and patented the software and technology it uses to organise music on its products such as the Nomad and Zen.

Apple said the deal ended all litigation between the firms, while Creative said it was amicable.

Dada - June 18, 2006 - September 11, 2006 -

MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Hear artists, curators, and others discuss works of modern and contemporary art at MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art. New programs will be added over time including MoMAudio: Special Exhibitions, Modern Voices, Modern Kids, and Visual Descriptions. MoMA also offers a podcast entitled Think Modern, an archive of many of MoMA's Adult and Academic Programs including symposia, readings, and discussions with artists, scholars, and writers. Download your audio and come visit MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, in New York or online at www.moma.org. Additional information about the audio programs may be found at www.moma.org/audio and is also available on mondomedeusah creative art media engine {4.4}. Collection information and images may be found at www.moma.org/collection.

Dada June 18–September 11, 2006  This major museum exhibition, which premiered at the National Gallery of Art, is the first in the United States to focus exclusively on Dada, one of the twentieth century’s most influential avant-garde art movements. Responding to the disasters of World War I and to an emerging modern media and machine culture, Dada artists led a creative revolution that profoundly shaped the course of subsequent art. Dada was a defiantly international movement, the first to self-consciously position itself as an expansive network crossing countries and continents. Born in neutral Zurich and New York, two cities that served as independent points of origin for the movement, Dada rapidly spread to Berlin, Cologne, Hannover, Paris, and beyond. This exhibition surveys the many forms of Dada artistic production as developed in the movement’s six primary city centers and features over four hundred works in a dynamic multimedia installation that includes collages, films, paintings, photographs, printed matter, sound recordings, and sculpture. Among the nearly fifty artists represented are Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch, Francis Picabia, Kurt Schwitters, and Sophie Taeuber, along with a number of less familiar individuals associated with the movement. A publication accompanies the exhibition. more