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Friday, July 18, 2008

iPhone, video games, Culberson tweets and more

Pandora's Success With iPhone Bodes Well for Internet Radio
Pandora’s success on the new iPhone, which sold a stunning one million units this past weekend, could thrust Internet radio to new heights.
- New iPhone Applications Are Buggy but Have Great Promise

ForeFlight on the Forefront of the iPhone AppStore
Houston-based startup, ForeFlight, is now available for iPhone users at the iPhone AppStore.


Planned Guns N’ Roses Deal Underscores Power of Video Games to Sell Songs
Guns N’ Roses’ plan to reintroduce its music to the public in a video game underscores how important to the music business games have become — especially Rock Band and Activision’s Guitar Hero series

MTV Debuts Online Music Guide
MTV unveiled an online music guide designed to help viewers learn more about the music they hear on MTV channels. Soundtrack.mtv.com is a real-time listing of all the music being played on every MTV show and every MTV channel, including the short music clips heard as the soundtrack for such shows as "The Hills," "The Real World" and "My Super Sweet Sixteen."

In House, Tweets Fly Over Web Plan
"I just learned the Dems are trying to censor Congressmen's ability to use Twitter Qik YouTube Utterz etc -- outrageous and I will fight them," Representative John Culberson, Republican of Texas, wrote last Tuesday on his personal page on the online text-messaging site Twitter, where he posts a daily, rapid-fire log of his thoughts. Messages on twitter are called tweets.

Older E-Mail Users Favor Fast Replies
E-mail users over 70 believe more firmly in prompt replies than people in any other age group, according to the results of an annual study released recently by the Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California. CONTACT: Leave me a Houston or Texas media news tip | COMMENT: Click to leave your thoughts on this post here