Panasonic announced at their annual CeBIT 2004 press conference a one gigabyte (1GB) SD Memory Card.

The product launch is scheduled for April in the Japanese market, followed by distribution elsewhere in the world starting in May. The manufacturer's suggested retail prices will be Euro499 in Germany and $499.99 in the United States.

SD Card Association announced on January 8, 2004 that SD surpassed Compact Flash to become the market leader. For more information, visit the website at http://www.sdcard.org/press.htm

This poster pops-up appears on the Koch Records web site.

Listen to 4 audio clips from Williams debut CD, Inspiration, at Fuse.TV.

A music video directed by Grammy-nominated director Jeff Richter (Jurassic 5, Rage Against The Machine, Chevelle) will be shot the first of next week.

The World premiere of the Jeff Richter video is confirmed on Fuse TV for 4/6 @ 10:00p.m. (Immediately following American Idol).

A 30 minute FUSE special is also in the works.

Thirty second promos announcing the album/video on Fuse will begin the week of 3/22/04
and continue the following week EVERY HOUR ON THE HOUR until April 6hth.

Fuse TV is guarantees 15-20 weekly spins on their music network for the “She Bangs” video:

Video Schedule
4/7 @ 3pm & 9pm
4/8 @ 7pm & 11pm
4/9 @ 4pm & 10pm
4/10 @ 11am, 2pm & 5pm
4/11 @ 12n, 3pm & 6pm
4/13 @ 7pm & 11pm
4/14 @ 4pm
4/15 @ 7pm & 11pm
4/17 @ 5pm

Tomorrow, a new digital download music service will be unveiled at a press conference at Hear Music Coffeehouse in Santa Monica, California, which is owned by Starbucks.

Using Hewlett-Packard (HPQ ) tablet computers, customers can preview and purchase more than 250,000 songs. The minimum purchase will be five songs for $6.99, while complete albums will sell for $12.95. Over the next couple years, Hewlett-Packard plans to furnish 2,500 stores with computers, CD burners and printers for album art.

In a Business Week article published last week, Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz said, ""This is not a test. We're going for it.''

"There is no question in our minds that this is the future of music distribution,'' says Hal Gaba, who co-owns Concord Records with producer Norman Lear. "It's a significant enhancement of the iTunes experience.''

After the press conference, Rufus Wainwright and Sarah Harmer(Photo) will perform outside on the Third Street Promenade.

Resources

Rolling Stone
PC Magazine
Slashdot Discussion
Seattle PI - Photo

Apparently, email addresses have been "harvested" from the hheld.com site.
Do not open attachments from:

info@hheld.com

Below is an email interaction with HHE:

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 7:27 AM
To: info@hheld.com
Subject: Re: something for you


i do not accept attactments.

is this message from HHE?


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> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/octet-stream
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Message from: hheld.com
Subject: RE: something for you
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 19:09:30 -0800

It's a virus... our "info@hheld.com" was most likely harvested. No one
has that e-mail on their clients I know of!

Today, ZVUE.com was Slashdotted

The ZVUE! will display an error message when it trys to display images over 400 pixels wide. Images can be "resized" in a batch with an imaging program like Jasc Paint Shop Photo Album (MSRP:$35 - download, free trial available) .

This morning the close-up photograph (410X274) showing the diamond-studded dress from Randi Rahm worn by Maria Menounos, 'Entertainment Tonight' host for the Oscar Arrivals telecast, on the red carpet at the 76th annual Academy Awards is the top email image on Yahoo News Dot Com. The one-of-a-kind dress is emblazoned with 3,000 hand-sewn round, princess and marquis-cut colored stones totaling two thousand carats, weighs 2.5 lbs and is worth $2.5 million. REUTERS/Mike Blake

Academy Awards Acceptance Speech video clips are available at Oscar.com. Charlize Theron Clip