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This month the album Help: A Day In The Life, recorded in just 24 hours by a roster of artists including Radiohead and Coldplay, became the biggest-selling download album ever. All the proceeds go to the charity War Child, which assists children affected by violent conflicts all over the world. The musicians involved have rallied to that cause, but only one fully understands the appalling realities of its mission: Emmanuel Jal, onetime child soldier in Sudan and now a fast-rising star of African rap. Jal's new album, Ceasefire, released in Britain this week, is an appeal...
...riders a month watch ads such as an overflowing bath - for home insurers Direct Line - cascade down a line of 33 LED screens. And when Coldplay launched their album X&Y in May, giant screens beamed invitations to every turned-on, Bluetooth mobile-phone user within 100 m to download exclusive freebies. For the moment, Britain's digital outdoor advertising market is tiny - just $38 million a year, according to outdoor ad agency Hyperspace - but appealing. Some 78% of travelers at Tottenham Court Road find the adverts entertaining, according to Viacom Outdoor, which currently sells ad space on the London...
...doing a very special project [with the band 3 Doors Down]. We're doing a live album. When you play this DVD, you get your choice: you can be in the audience, or you can be onstage. The nice thing for the industry is that you can't download a surround-sound experience...
...Length, in hours, of the complete sextet of Harry Potter audiobooks, made available last week for download on Apple's iTunes...
...grocery list on the go, only to lose it or change your mind by the time you make it to the store? Now a plethora of menus is just a click and a scroll away. Kraft Foods recently made 100 recipes (featuring Kraft ingredients, of course) available to download to your iPod. "The iPod is the next revolution on how to get info on the website into consumer hands," says Ian Smith, Kraft's director of global digital marketing. Kraft's recipe downloads do not use the audio function and take up less than 1 MB of space. Other corporations...