Sorry for the delay in getting this summary online today. But I wanted to make sure it was up to the minute and I was out late last night at a great Willie Nelson show.  We talk about The Grateful Dead and NIN building tribes, but Willie too has built a tribe of his own. Also, big news today both from Live Nation and eMusic.  Read on and please share your thoughts.

HYPEBOT FEATURES:

• eMusic Adds Sony, But Could Pay A Price
• Live Nation Drops All Ticket Charges During "No Service Fee Wednesday's"
  • Sale Could "Send A Strong Message" Opposing High Ticket Fees
• mSpot Signs Up 6M For Paid Mobile Entertainment
• Walmart Shutting Down DRM Download Servers
• Music & The Creative Class: A Fruit Fly Industry
• Reader Poll: What Email Program Do You Use To Connect With Fans?
• Winner Of The Appetite For Destruction Contest
• REWIND: The Music Industry's Week In Review

MORE MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS:

• RIAA responds: Nesson more like P.T. Barnum than David. Op-ed: In this opinion piece, RIAA General Counsel Steven Marks takes on Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson. (ars) Just get this trial into court for God sakes, let us watch it online and judge for oursleves.
• Nielsen Hugely Underestimates BitTorrent Traffic. (TorrentFreak)
• In Music, Apple’s Strength Becomes a Vulnerability (Gigaom)
• PaidContent: Sony Not Pursing Music Downloads For Its Playstation Network, For Now 
• Rhapsody's exclusive TV ads target music consumers. (Reuters)
• An interview with Will Smith of PRS on his recent controversial study reputing the theory of The Long Tail in music. (Outdustry)
• Assessing Napster - 10 years later (SF Chronicle)
• We wrote about indie band Chester French encouraging fans to burn copies of their CD to give to friends. Proving once again how smart they are, they linked to the article calling Hypebot "one of the most important blogs in the music industry - it’s read by all the movers, shakers (Editor: That's you.) and the movers and shakers’ assistants". Any band that pr savvy deserves another link. OK maybe two links here and here.

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Live Nation is dropping service fees on more than five million lawn tickets at amphitheater shows ticketed by LiveNation.com for 24 hours beginning at 12:01 AM June 3rd. 
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Whether in response to lower ticket sales or ongoing criticism about ticketing fees, the world's largest concert promoter will continue to offer a variety of “No Service Fee Wednesdays” specials throughout the rest of the summer,

“Summer concerts are a great escape in these tough times,” said Michael Rapino, who heads Live Nation said in a statement. "We wanted to do something that had never been done before and 'No Service Fee Wednesdays' provide incredible value to millions of music fans.”

More Details:

Tickets for “No Service Fee Wednesdays” go on sale at 12:01 a.m. local time on June 3, 2009 at www.LiveNation.com. This promotion is not valid in combination with other special pricing offers and is subject to availability. Tickets without service fees are available at all Live Nation-ticketed amphitheaters for concerts including:

          •    311
          •    Aerosmith

•    Coldplay
•    Crosby Stills & Nash
•    Crue Fest 2
•    Dave Matthews Band
•    Def Leppard with Poison and Cheap Trick
•    Depeche Mode
•    George Strait with Blake Shelton and Julianne Hough
•    Incubus
•    Jason Mraz
•    Kid Rock & Lynyrd Skynyrd
•    New Kids on the Block
•    Nickelback
•    Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction
•    No Doubt
•    O.A.R.
•    Phish
•    Rascal Flatts with Darius Rucker
•    REO Speedwagon & Styx
•    Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival featuring Marilyn Manson & Slayer
•    Rod Stewart
•    The Allman Brothers Band
•    The Dead
•    The Fray
•    The Killers
•    Toby Keith with Trace Adkins
•    Warped Tour

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A former pick of the week for me, and one of my most-used Mac and iPhone apps, has just seen the latter, mobile version updated. I had a chance to try out 1Password touch 2.0 [Free - iTunes link], and the new ability to sync Wallet Items, along with an entirely new, very robust way to sync over Wi-Fi, work the way such things ought.

If you loves security, and want the ability to take your super-strong, pseudo-random passwords, as well as credit cards, debit cards, and all that new goodness, with you, give it a try.

This is a story by the iPhone Blog. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.

1Password touch 2.0 Now Available

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Each week we bring you the biggest stories from around the Smartphone Experts network. We’re changing up our format this week: shorter, bite-sized, yet still delicious.

Android 1.5 Cupcake update finally rolls out Android 2.0 ‘Donut’ demoed on video Google Expects 18-20 Android phones to be released this year	BlackBerry Storm 9530 OS 4.7.0.148 Finally Official BlackBerry Twitter Client Roundup, Part Deux Hands-On with the Fuel Case for the BlackBerry Bold
Ovi Store rolls out around the world Skyfire Browser on E71x: works well! Free Games and Apps for the Noka 5800	Next Gen iPhone Caught on Camera? iPhone 3.0: auto-focus, digital compass, and more iPhone 3.0 to allow direct, on-device iTunes movie and TV show downloads
Palm Pre to Sync Seamlessly with iTunes! Palm Pre Previewed in our forums once and once again Gmail and Facebook Users: Time to Resign Yourself to Extra Contacts	Touch Pro 2 and Touch Diamond 2 for AT&T Leak Another Windows Mobile 7 leak Kinoma Play (And P.S. - no podcast this week)

This is a story by the iPhone Blog. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.

Best of SPE, 31 May 2009

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New incentives for buying original music TechCentral, Malaysia So, the next best thing for the music barons to do is give away digital music as a value-add whenever someone buys an MP3 player. senQ appliance stores is giving away songs when you buy any Samsung MP3 player at its Klang Valley, Seremban or Malacca ...

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QuickOffice has updated their Mobile Office Suite [$19.99 - iTunes link] for iPhone to version 1.2.0. The full list of updates is after the jump, but what caught our eye was this little goody:

• Supports iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5

What’s new

Quickword (Word Processor):

• Predictive text, auto-capitalization, and double-space for a period shortcut
• Find text in a document and search for next or previous occurrences
• Increase and decrease indentation level of bulleted lists, numbered lists, and paragraphs
• Set paragraph alignment
• Increase and decrease first line indentation on a paragraph
• View tables that are too wide for your screen by flicking the table left and right

Quicksheet (Spreadsheet Processor):

• Copy/Paste cells, columns, rows, and cell ranges & formulas are dynamically updated!
• Landscape editing directly into a cell
• Edit directly into a cell in portrait — Just double tap the cell
• New and easy way to build formulas
• Set or remove cell borders
• Add, rename, delete, and reorder worksheets inside a single spreadsheet
• Clear the formula bar contents by pressing X or clear all contents & formatting from the toolbar
• Edit font type and size
• Set alignment within a cell

Quickoffice Files (File Management):

• Auto-bookmarking your last viewed position in documents
• Slide show viewing of remote and local images
• UI improvements

As always, if you try it out, let us know how it works for you!

[Transcription via AppShopper]

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QuickOffice Mobile Office Suite for iPhone Updated to 1.2.0

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The latest leaks, as discovered by data partner BigChampagne... Placebo, Battle For The Sun, Web 5/29, Street 6/8 ...

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Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, App Review

The AP News [App Store] iPhone/iPod touch app that rolled out ugly earlier in the week has updated to version 2.01 and fixed that nasty problem that wouldn't let you run the app reliably if you had the previous AP Mobile app already on your phone.

That has been fixed, but the app still suffers from more bugs than the centerfield lights at a night baseball game. When you update to the latest version you will likely lose all your preferences, and as we reported, setting preferences is no small task.

The AP still insists on showing you a front page that wastes 1/3 of its space with a large photo and video icon. Usually, people come to a news app to read the news, but that concept seems lost on the AP. The result of this bad design decision is that only 3 stories show up on the front page, which is not as good as the New York Times app (4), the Bloomberg News app (5), or ABC News (4). Actually, most of the news apps have too much non-essential garbage on the main pages. I'd kinda like to read the news.

I think the AP app scrolling of long stories is still jerky, and some stories display a picture at the top which is so large it takes the whole screen and you can't read any of the story without scrolling.

Also, stories tend to repeat. In my local list of stories, I saw the same story 3 times. Clearly, that shouldn't happen in a well-written app.

All lists of stories must be viewed in portrait orientation, but you can read them in landscape mode, which means constantly switching back and forth between screen types if you want the stories in landscape format. Don't try this if you have vertigo.

The AP app is free, so one hates to complain, but frankly the previous version was easier on the eyes, less buggy, and organized in a way many news junkies would prefer to read the news.

Sometimes "progress" is anything but.

TUAWAP Mobile updated but still falls short originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 31 May 2009 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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