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Recent Headlines - Art & Entertainment: Music Downloads IPOD & MP3

Yangaroo's U.S. Patent Progress Continues YANGAROO Inc., (TSX-V: YOO, OTC: YOOIF) the industry's leading secure digital media distribution company, continues to make progress with its United Stated Patent Application #10/431,854 titled “Content Distribution System and Method”. - 2008-05-16

Musicnotes' Digital Sales Growth Exceeds 30% Thus Far in 2008 Despite a challenging economic environment, Musicnotes, Inc. the market leader in downloadable sheet music and guitar tablature, indicates its year-to-date sales growth remains robust. Musicnotes.com has sold nearly 500,000 downloads thus far in 2008 and generated sales of approximately $3 million. Digital sales growth has exceeded 30% through early May. - 2008-05-05

''Hey There Delilah'' Songwriter and Publishers Receive 2007 Musicnotes Song of the Year Award Musicnotes, Inc., the market leader in downloadable sheet music, announced today Plain White T's lead singer and songwriter, Tom Higgenson, WB Music Corp. and Alfred Publishing are the recipients of the sixth annual Musicnotes Song of the Year Award for the song "Hey There Delilah." - 2008-05-01

M Concepts and YES Launch Widget Designed to Enhance Listener Experience and Promote Station Loyalty: New Technology Looks to Revive Radio Industry with Unique Social Media-Inspired Features M Concepts, a boutique product design consultancy, and YES, a leading radio community, today announced the launch of the YES widget, geared to renew radio listenership by promoting listener loyalty and time spent with the station. The YES widget, which can be embedded into any radio station's Web site, offers an interactive experience for listeners, creating a community through one-of-a-kind chat features and exciting prizes. In support of the Free Radio Alliance, the YES team hopes to keep open air programming free by increasing digital music sales and permitting improved listener involvement. - 2008-04-16

BitGravity Arms Media Companies with the Industry's First Integrated Security Suite Designed to Eliminate Content Piracy: BG Secure Provides Dynamic Stream Protection without Hampering User Experience or Requiring Client Download BitGravity, Inc., the pioneer in Content Delivery Networks (CDN) for interactive broadcasting, today announced BG Secure, a suite of products that offers Internet media properties the ability to protect their copyrighted content from the growing number of pirating technologies without disruption to the customer experience. - 2008-04-14

SpiralFrog(TM) Signs Licensing Deal With IRIS Distribution: - Catalogue Additions Include Tracks from Legendary, Award-Winning Artists and Emerging Artists - SpiralFrog (www.spiralfrog.com), the free and legal ad-supported music experience, today announced it signed an agreement with IRIS Distribution, a leading independent music digital distribution and marketing company. - 2008-03-28

3RD CULTURE Joins Grammy Award Winning Producer Thom Russo for a Remix of the New Single ``Heartbreak City'' Releasing on March 28: Thom Russo (Audioslave, Jay Z, Johnny Cash, Eric Clapton, Juanes and Moneybrother) has remixed 3RD CULTURE's new single "Heartbreak City" Live performance and webcast show at Arlene's Grocery, New York City on March 28, 2008 Pop Rock group 3RD CULTURE, http://www.myspace.com/3rdcultureband, celebrates the release of their new single "Heartbreak City" on Friday, March 28, 2008 with a live performance from Arlene's Grocery in NYC at 10:00 p.m. EDT. The show will also be available via a live webcast at http://www.youtube.com/user/3RDCULTURE. - 2008-03-27

SanDisk Introduces the Stylish Sansa(R) Fuze(TM) MP3 Player: Multi-Faceted Music Player Rounds out the Sansa Product Line SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a leading seller of MP3 players in the United States, today unveiled the multi-faceted Sansa(R) Fuze(TM) MP3 player. The stylish music player is loaded with capabilities and features to keep consumers well entertained while on the go. Not only is it easy on the eye, it's easy on the pocketbook. With availability planned for early April in the United States, the Sansa Fuze player comes in a wide array of colors (pink, red, blue, black and silver) and capacities (2, 4 and 8 gigabyte(1) (GB)) with an expected starting price of only $79.99 MSRP. - 2008-03-11

Billy Bob Thornton & the Boxmasters Release a Custom Preview of Their Upcoming Debut Album at the Dell Lounge: Download music and check out videos of Billy Bob Thornton & the Boxmasters at the Dell Lounge Fans of Billy Bob Thornton can now download a 10-song preview of the hillbilly rocker's upcoming album with his latest musical incarnation - The Boxmasters - exclusively at the Dell Lounge. - 2008-03-11

State of the Record Industry to Be Discussed During SXSW Legal Panels; Lommen Abdo Firm Helps Drive Legal Stars and New Bands to Annual Austin Summit While the buzz bands will be buzzin' at the annual SXSW (South by Southwest) confab March 13-15 in Austin, Texas, many of the most pressing issues facing established and emerging recording artists and the troubled music industry will be generating their own buzz during the event's timely CLE (Continuing Legal Education) panels. The panels will feature superstar attorneys such as Don Passman (All Your Need to Know About the Music Business), record executives from Universal Music Group and other labels, major management companies and others. Attendance is open to all SXSW Music Conference registrants. - 2008-03-07

CasaTools Partners with NuVo Technologies: NuVo Grand Concerto Customers Can Add CasaTunes for MultiRoom Music Experience CasaTools, a leader in whole house audio systems, and NuVo Technologies, a manufacturer of whole home audio systems, speakers, source components and related accessories, today announced that CasaTools has partnered with NuVo Technologies. CasaTools and NuVo Technologies are working together to have CasaTunes MultiRoom Music Server from CasaTools support NuVo Technologies Grand Concerto, Essentia, and Simplese. CasaTools will be showing the NuVo Grand Concerto with the NuvoNet Adapter at EH Expo March 13-15 in Orlando in booth 240A. - 2008-03-03

1 Attachment The Fort Hood DFMWR Partners with SyncLive to Stream Live Music & Entertainment Events Online to Soldiers & Families Worldwide: Fort Hood Has Partnered with SyncLive to Present LIVE Webcasts of Key DFMWR and Other Events from Fort Hood to Soldiers, Families and Fans Around the World SyncLive is a music and entertainment web community where fans can watch LIVE or on-demand shows and concerts while interacting with family and friends online. Artists can broadcast live shows to a worldwide audience from any place at any time to present their music on a global stage. Emerging and established artists, as well as several Military artists perform regularly on SyncLive and each artist has the ability to set-up their own profile page with background information and show schedules. - 2008-02-25

AOL Launches in Mexico, Expanding Global Presence: AOL.com.mx Offers Localized Content and Services; AOL Partners with Alestra, Grupo Editorial Expansion and HP AOL today launched a dedicated Web destination in Mexico, http://www.aol.com.mx, which combines industry-leading safety features with free e-mail, instant messaging and localized content in Spanish. AOL has partnered with Alestra to provide distribution and Grupo Editorial Expansion for content. AOL also will leverage its worldwide distribution partnership with HP to deliver a co-branded local language portal and search solution for Mexico. AOL will continue to add content and features over the coming months. - 2008-02-21

SendMe Mobile Selects the Vantrix Store Optimizer Platform to Maximize the Reach and Quality of Its M-Commerce Storefronts Vantrix today announced that SendMe Mobile, the premier mobile media company, has selected the Vantrix Store Optimizer mobile content delivery solution to streamline the publishing of video, ringtones, wallpapers and other mobile media on SendMe Mobile's storefronts, and to extend the reach of its content catalog to virtually every mobile phone in the US. - 2008-01-29

SpiralFrog(TM) Surpasses 1 Million Unique Monthly Visitors: Free, Legal Music Discovery and Download Site Shows Rapid Growth Among Users SpiralFrog, Inc., (www.spiralfrog.com) the free, ad-supported Web-based music service that launched on September 17th in North America, today announced the site hit one million unique monthly visitors and is expected to exceed 1.2 million uniques by the end of the month, according to Google Analytics. - 2008-01-25

CORRECTING and REPLACING Stanford Prof. with Penchant for Rock-n-Roll and Renaissance Begins New Season of His Radio Show, Entitled Opinions: Guests to Include Nobel Prize Winning Author, Orhan Pamuk Subhead and first graph, third sentence should read: ... Nobel Prize Winning Author Orhan Pamuk (sted Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Orhan Pamuk). - 2008-01-16

Radio & Records Partners with YANGAROO's DMDS for Digital Delivery: Leading Industry Publication to Market and Promote DMDS to U.S. Radio and Recording Industry YANGAROO, Inc., (TSX-V: YOO, OTCBB: YOOIF) the industry's leading secure digital media distribution company, today announced that it has entered into a partnership with Radio and Records (R&R), the leading music industry information company in the United States, to market and promote its patented Digital Media Distribution System (DMDS) to the radio and recording industries. - 2008-01-10

At CES, Pyxix adds PSP, iPod, Zune, 3gp capabilities for ''Connecting Artist to Audience'': 3 Pyxix entertainment channels -- Urbanchillers, DocuPyx and ComedyPop -- are adding iPod video, PSP movies, Zune downloads and 3gp files, it was announced at CES International Consumer Electronics Show At CES, the International Consumer Electronics Show, Pyxix(R) Corporation, a diversified global media company, today announced new capabilities to deliver entertainment content to Sony PlayStation(R) Portable, Apple iPod(R) and Microsoft Zune(R) as well as 3gp smart phones. The announcement reflects the Pyxix mission of "Connecting Artist to Audience." - 2008-01-09

Find Your Audio Fingerprint at CES with Sleek Audio's Customizable High-Fidelity In-Ear Earphone for Today's Digital Music: Sleek Audio Launches Music in Tune with You with the Combination of Loudspeaker Technology and Innovative Hearing Aid Science At this year's CES show, Sleek Audio launches their SA6 customizable in-ear earphone, bringing music lovers everywhere the opportunity to find their audio fingerprint in meeting room 70347mp at the Sands convention center. Now anyone can customize their audio experience and hear music like never before. - 2008-01-06

Sierra Sound's Smart Speakers Making Sweet Sounds: An Amazing String of Positive Reviews and Awards Sierra Sound's first product, the iN Studio 5.0 began the arduous process of submitting to reviews and lab tests for their first Smart Speaker System the iN Studio 5.0. The praise has come often and loud. Over a dozen lab tests completed and all have placed Sierra Sound as among the best sounding Made For iPod speakers in the market at any price. - 2007-12-21

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