Live Music Comes to iTunes
It’s such an obvious idea it’s amazing it didn’t happen sooner. Wired reports that Apple has teamed up with promoter Live Nation to bring Live music to its iTunes Store. The reason for the delay is the tremendous difficulty getting all the required signatures on all the dotted lines. For each live performance to be made available

FCC Solicits Applications for White Space Database Administrators
The Federal Communications Commission said today it’s soliciting proposals from those looking to become administrators for TV band database managers, moving one step closer toward making white space broadband available on the unused airwaves that exist b

How to Shop on the Go This Holiday Season
If you’re looking to save a little time this holiday season by shopping on the mobile web, you’d do well to spend some time on Amazon’s mobile site, according to figures released this week from Compuware’s Gomez division. The online retailer’s destination fared the best in a study of 14 mobile site

What to Read on The GigaOM Network
A wireless handheld keyboard and trackpad for UMPCs (jkOnTheRun) K Desktop environment is dead — long live KDE (OStatic) (Shazam)RED makes the App Store a slightly kinder place (TheAppleBlog) 5 energy storage players that won smart grid stimulus funds

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