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Matthew Maier: Thanks to Yahoo’s recently released Music Unlimited service and an Audiovox 5600 smartphone, I finally got my first taste of mobile music. It’s the most promising subscription music service I’ve seen. Though it lacks the austere elegance of Apple’s (AAPL) iTunes store. via

FBI has shut down the servers of Elite Torrents network, which was recently distributing illegal copies of “Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith” before it appeared in movie theaters, Reuters reports. FBI executed 10 search warrants, grabbed the main server. Elite had 133,000 members collectively downloaded 2.1 million files, including 18,000 different [...]

Wang Xiaochu, chairman of the listed unit of China’s largest fixed-line operator, at a shareholder meeting today said that in ten years broadband, mobile and fixed-line operations to each contribute a third of its revenue. (via Dow Jones)

As expected, Qwest is giving up on MCI and instead will focus on buying smaller operators. Oh we said that earlier - Time Warner Telecom, XO, WilTel, Broadwing, TelCove, Level3 aare some of the names being thrown around. “Qwest has great arteries,” Denver- based telecom analyst Tom Friedberg told the Denver Post. “But it doesn’t [...]

Jobs tells WSJ that he has doubts that Yahoo’s $60-per-year music subscription plan would work forever, and pointed out that Apple insiders had a “betting pool on when Yahoo would raise the $5-a-month rate, with Mr. Jobs putting his money on five months.”… Not to be left behind, normally soft spoken Jerry Yang, reponds, that [...]

A few days have passed since I used and published my initial impressions of Yahoo Unlimited, and during that time, I have come a conclusion, though that word has such finality to it. Yahoo Unlimited is an ad-supported personal radio network.
There, I said it. Now let me explain. Radio networks normally have preset play lists, [...]