The latter firm has confirmed itself to have signed a long-term licensing agreement with Viacom to licence and place the MTV, Pimp My Ride and South Park brands onto a range of MP3 and MP4 players.

Ranch View retirements: Ranch View Elementary School will hold a retirement reception for vocal music teacher Joline Bastounes, fourth-grade teacher Phyllis Irby, instrumental music teacher Ken Kaiser, fifth-grade teacher Dave McMurtie, technology integration specialist Rick Schrock and resource Lynn Moore.

Online giants team up to develop new online initiatives.

The New York Summer Music Festival has been granted the full use of a Yamaha Silent Electric String Quartet for its premiere season. NYSMF will showcase these unique instruments in a series of free concerts from June 25-August 5, 2006, in performances ranging from classical to jazz to original student-written compositions. (PRWEB May 31, 2006)

Ted Cohen, one of the first executives to see technology as a new way to sell records, plans to start his own practice.

Yahoo to promote PayPal, click-to-call with Skype; eBay adds Yahoo search and ad distribution.

He’s been described as “undeviating in his devotion to music”; tonight, choreographer/director Mark Morris joins Margaret to talk about what makes music sound American. We’ll also sample some of Morris’s eclectic musical tastes, with music by Henry Cowell, George Gershwin and Harry Partch. Later tonight, we’ll listen to highlights from WNYC’s Music Party with the Imani Winds (featuring American

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea is embracing the digital age, encouraging its citizens to go online and even boasting about the popularity of that obligatory electronic accessory in the 21st century: MP3 players.

Readers endorse the suspension of reality, vent on the music industry, and chastise iPod listening cyclers.

One Stop Displays has introduced a low cost 0.87-inch 104 x 16 monochrome OLED for consumer-type applications such as MP3 players and caller ID.