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Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Dr. Dre has embraced technology and touted its benefits to the music industry, so it's only fitting that the icon is starring in a new wave of tech ads. HP drafted the rapper to appear in its new $40 million ad campaign known as 'Let's Do Amazing.' [From: Engadget] Floyd. Zeppelin. The Stones. Pimply-faced record label suits ...

Highlights form this morning's other big tech headlines.... Forbes has released its Croesus rankings of the world's wealthiest billionaires, and the list includes an impressive team of nerd all-stars, including Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt and Steve Ballmer. He may not own the overall top billionaire spot anymore (that honor going to Carlos Slim), but Bill Gates still leads the tech rankings ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Despite having appeared in only one movie since 2007 (and a TV one at that), Lindsay Lohan apparently believes that her first name carries similar star power to those of Oprah, Cher, and Madonna. LiLo is suing E-Trade for the ridiculous sum of $100 million because of a commercial that featured a "milkaholic" baby named Lindsay. ...

With Vevo, music bigwigs like Sony, Universal, and EMI Music are hanging their hopes on the idea that users more accustomed to getting their music videos off the Web than from the tube will make their profit-oriented site a success. On Tuesday, the Google-operated video-streaming service officially kicked off its launch with a New York City bash that included heavy-hitters like Rihanna, Lady ...

While it might sound like commercial suicide, a group of major record labels -- Sony, Warner, Universal, and EMI -- are planning to launch a new digital album format, without Apple's support. According to the Guardian, the project, codenamed 'CMX,' will launch in November and include songs, lyrics, videos, liner notes, and artwork. It's a push to revive the album in a time when digital singles ...

DRM is hated by those who legitimately purchase music, and now Wal-Mart is jumping on the bandwagon. They have asked record labels that sell music through its online store to ditch the stuff. An abbreviation for Digital Rights Management, DRM is software created to restrict what you can do with music and movie downloads. It's the stuff that keeps you from copying music and movies from one computer ...

Well, it all depends on your perspective. The pessimist would say the experiment was a failure, proving that, no matter what, the pirates will always have their way with an artist's work. Despite the unique offering that allowed fans to pay whatever they felt (including nothing) for a digital copy of the new album from the British art-rockers, 'In Rainbows' still made the rounds on popular ...

Shhh... you hear that? That's the sound of the record industry grasping at straws. The latest desperate attempt to lure in consumers is selling albums on USB drives. This isn't the first time artists have gone the digital drive route, but the move is getting a renewed push from the record industry. Universal, Warner and EMI have all announced plans to sell music on USB Flash drives. Details are ...

Wal-Mart is the latest store to jump into the DRM-free music sales game, offering the same digital-rights-management-free tracks from EMI and Universal that are sold through the iTunes Plus, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, and other online music stores. (DRM is a system of adding a small amount of data to an audio file, which puts draconian limitations on copying, burning, and playback of the material ...

DRM, the copy protection intended to keep you from illegally sharing music you download, sometimes just prevents you from listening to the tunes you legally acquired. Back in May, when Apple launched iTunes Plus, EMI gave iTunes DRM-free tracks for the reasonable price of $1.29 a track. Today, EMI has announced a partnership with music distributor MusicNet to make 1 million DRM-free songs from its ...

Just days after stripping its tracks of copy protection for the iTunes Plus Store, record label EMI has inked a deal with YouTube to bring videos by EMI artists to the site and eventually allow users to incorporate its artists' songs into their own YouTube postings. EMI is the last of the "Big Four" record labels to sign with YouTube, joining Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, and the Warner Music ...