McDonald’s Starts Tornado Dropping Twista for Lyrics

Posted on July 31st, 2007 by admin

McDonald’s Corporation has caused a tornado of controversy by dropping rapper Twista from a 10-city concert tour because of what they are calling “derogatory lyrics”. The fast food giant has decided to drop the potty mouth rapper because of explicit language and references to drugs in the lyrics. Twista is known for his hits “Slow [...]

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Lyrics on iPhones as Apple Seeks Patents

Posted on July 24th, 2007 by admin

Apple’s been bobbing for patent applications this week and that has caused all sorts of speculation as to what this could mean for the iPhone. Looks like the big PC-buster is looking for a method to display music lyrics on their iPhones and iPods in conjunction with songs that their clients download. Gracenote has been [...]

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The Rhapsody of Searchable Music Lyrics

Posted on July 10th, 2007 by admin

The Rhapsody of Searchable Music Lyrics Free searchable music lyrics to over 200,000 songs are now being offered at Rhapsody Online. In a deal with RealNetworks and LyricFind, the lyrics from 1,800 different independent and major music publishers are being offered at no charge. This offering will provide competition to the Yahoo and Gracenote offering [...]

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