iTunes Rival Offers Free Music
Tuesday. 9.5.06 10:21 pm
By: Bomani Jones
August 29, 2006
iTunes has a new competitor in the market for digital music. And unlike iTunes, this service is free.
SpiralFrog, a New York based company that bills itself as a “digital entertainment destination,” has inked a deal with Universal Music to provide music and videos online, free of charge. The advertising supported service, which claims those between 13 and 34 as its target audience, promises its downloads will be free of viruses and spyware, making them safer than those offered by pirate sites.
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"Offering young consumers an easy-to-use alternative to pirated music sites will be compelling," said Robin Kent, SpiralFrog's CEO. "SpiralFrog will offer those consumers a better experience and environment than they can get from any pirate site."
Legal downloading through sites like iTunes has been a boon for the record industry. According to Soundscan, digital track sales are up 77% from last year. Album downloads have increased 126%.
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Tuesday. 9.5.06 10:24 pm
Spiral Frog
SpiralFrog is a new online music destination, offering ad-supported legal downloads of audio and video content licensed from the catalogs of the world’s major and independent record labels.
SpiralFrog will be a secure environment where music lovers can satisfy their unyielding passion and thirst for music, entertainment, and information. Our site will be as multifaceted, smart, and current as the audience we hope to attract. An audience that we believe is the driving force behind the way music is created, discovered, and consumed today.
Headquartered in New York City, the SpiralFrog website will debut in December 2006.
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COMING IN DECEMBER 2006: SPIRALFROG
Tuesday. 9.5.06 10:23 pm
free music download service coming in december 2006, legal downloads.
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The Official Baby-Daddy Handbook
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The Official Baby-Daddy Handbook
It’s all here. Everything the modern baby-daddy needs to know. Just keep it away from you-know-who
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compiled: Aliya S. King
KING PRESENTS A PSA FOR CELIBACY
Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian met former tennis pro Lisa Bonder on a tennis court. He was 74. She was 23. After messing around for a few years, he gave her $4 million to disappear. She took the money and then popped up pregnant. Kerkorian voluntarily began to pay $20,000 per month in child support.
Kerkorian’s baby-mama still wasn’t satisfied. She wanted their child to be legitimate and complained about not being married. Daddy Warbucks agreed to marry her and increase her child support to $50,000 per month, as long as she divorced him within a month.
She filed for divorce 30 days later and then asked him for $20 million to go away forever. But Kerkorian, finally catching on to Bonder’s gold-digger tendencies, ordered a blood test. And surprise, surprise, it wasn’t his baby.
Bonder ordered another blood test. This time, she tricked Kerkorian’s older daughter from a previous marriage into giving her a saliva sample. Then she submitted it to the courts, pretending it was her daughter’s saliva. When the test showed that Kerkorian was the father, she asked that her child support be increased to $320,000 per month. (That included $436 per month to care for the child’s pet bunny).
Meanwhile, Kerkorian read a story about Steven Bing, a movie producer who had a baby with model and actress Elizabeth Hurley. Turns out Bing had also had a fling with Bonder. Kerkorian called him up, man-to-man, and asked him to take a paternity test. Bing refused, so Kerkorian sent a bodyguard to Bing’s house to rifle through his garbage. A piece of used dental floss was found. And the tests showed that Bing was the father of the billion-dollar baby.
Bonder, however, wasn’t fazed. She continued her suit. In court, she said the real father didn’t matter since Kerkorian had signed the birth certificate and claimed the child as his own. Bonder didn’t get the whopping $4 million a year she wanted. But Kerkorian has been ordered to continue paying over $50,000 per month until the child turns 18.
Continue reading the rest of The Official Baby-Daddy Handbook in the July/August 2006 issue of KING(#32).
http://king-mag.com/online/?p=1049
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FLAVOR OF LOVE 2: Gotta Love It!
Tuesday. 9.5.06 10:50 pm
Gotta Love It!
Hip-hop’s most celebrated sidekick takes a second stab at playing the lead on VH1’s The Flavor of Love 2. Wil this season’s crop of cuties leave a better taste in his mouth? This sextet chimes in.
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Government Nevaeh Crawford
Love Handle Krazy
What’s in a Name? “When I went up to him and sang, he called me Krazy. I asked him why he called me that and he said he was crazy about me from the time he met me.”
Government London Charles
Love Handle Deelishis (pronounced Delicious)
What’s in a Name? “Flav assumed I was that deal, so he put it all together and said the deel-is-his.”
Government Maria Dunbar
Love Handle Spunkee
What’s in a Name? “I told everyone that as soon as I see Flav I’m gonna jump on his back. I could have some low-rider jeans, with some cute little underwear with a tank top on. He kind of crushed that and said ‘Nah girl, you gonna hurt my back.’”
Government Shahira “Shay” Johnson
Love Handle Buckeey
What’s in a Name? “He named me Buckeey because he says I’m buckwild with my attitude, body and so forth.”
Government Britnay Morano
Love Handle Tiger
What’s in a Name? “I’m an exotic-animal trainer. I use to train safari animals, like mountain lions, jaguars and zebras.”
Government Larissa Hodge
Love Handle Bootz
What’s in a Name? “Flav says he wants to knock the Bootz.”
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Continue reading this story in the October ‘06 issue of KING (#36)
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