Apple, the computer and music company, has already done the research for me.
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Because they are bought by adults as well as children, they are sold in computer and music stores rather than toy shops.
Standards announced Tuesday by the Secure Digital Music Initiative -- a group of computer and music companies -- will finally clear the way for the major record labels to make their top tunes instantly available.
Probably not, but a group of computer scientists and music scholars have built a machine that can do just that.
The most recent depictions have mostly been comic portrayals in cartoons, computer games and music videos like the 10-hour Badger Song, reputedly appreciated by students under the influence of substances.
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Mountain View's Locke suggests that the server location be taken out of the equation by basing the point of sale on where the company's headquarters are located, and Hennepin County's Johnson pointed out that software and computer-generated music transactions may prove to be undetectable and therefore untaxable.
Such solutions deal with only a few of "thousands of related issues, " Upson said, including how to handle product sales to American consumers that take place on American company-owned servers based in foreign countries and how to tax the sale of digital goods and intellectual property such as software and computer-generated music.
My reasoning is that we should focus on producing goods we have the comparative advantage in things like junk food, computer programs, and bad pop music.
Be it the original Mac GUI, the iMac, the iPod or the iPhone, Mr. Jobs has fundamentally changed the way we think of the computer, the music player and the phone.
It was the alarming success of Apple Computer's iPod and iTunes music store that helped prompt the latest challenge from Apple Corps, although the two companies have been sparring ever since George Harrison spotted an ad for Apple Computer in a magazine in 1980.
Since it may take a while to get on board the likes of phone makers Motorola and Nokia, music players like Apple Computer or chip companies Texas Instruments and Freescale Semiconductor, HP is also looking to build the business internally.
East London's tech scene is led not by tech firms per se but by "digital creative" companies that combine computer technology with music, art and narrative and musicians, artists and writers cluster in cities.
Of course, you can always use a streaming music service on a computer and output the digital signal from there without any special equipment.
Once the virus has established itself on a host computer, it quickly destroys all music and image files and disables the e-mail system, causing irreparable damage at some companies.
It is believed the virus is programmed to delete some computer files, including MP3 music files and images, as well as raiding email addresses to multiply itself and send itself and other e-mails onwards.
While it was interesting to see members of a band connecting and performing regardless of geography, it wasn't much of a performance, since the other members of the band were only represented as thumbnails and music waveforms on a computer screen.
But lawyers acting on behalf of Apple Computer said "even a moron in a hurry" could see the difference between iTunes and a record label like Apple Corps, and the fact that Apple Computer distributed music didn't make it a record label.
James Hannigan: It was a bit unexpected and unplanned, although growing up in the era of the Atari 2600 and the home computer revolution, I loved games and was fascinated by the idea of eventually making music for them.
File-sharing networks haven't just given computer users a new way to find music and movies.
Examples include movies, books, music, pharmaceuticals, and computer software.
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Consumer electronics equipped with wireless mesh hardware could easily become a part of ad hoc networks in your house, allowing users to easily share music and video between their computer, TV or stereo.
Several new products that focus on using home networks to stream music and video from the computer to home stereos and TV sets are expected from other computer firms in the coming weeks.
That potentially shifts the convenience trade-off for MySpace customers in Amazon's favor, because they would be able to buy a song and get it into their computer's music manager, even iTunes, with one click using Amazon's software.
She knows how hard it is to raise children in a culture where every time they're out of your sight, they're tuning into a multibillion-dollar music, computer game, Internet and film empire that promulgates messages frequently at odds with small-town American values.
Apple Corps, which was created by The Beatles in 1968, took on Apple Computer in the High Court in September 2003 over claims that the computer maker's iPod portable player and iTunes Music Store violated its trademark agreement to steer clear of the music business.
The 2004 collaboration between Apple Computer and the rock band U2 for the iPod MP3 music player.
To replace those losses, Synaptics must get better at breaking into new markets--like music players, computer mice, keyboards and cell phones.
The tech pulls video, music and pics from your connected computer(s) to your Galaxy Note via the AllShare Play app.
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Parents also push their children into extracurricular activities in an effort to nurture flickers of talent in such areas as music, dance, painting and computer skills.
New HTC Sync Manager also makes it easy to manage and sync your music collection from your computer to your smartphone to ensure your entire library is as mobile as you are.
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