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Thursday, March 31, 2011
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Nominees Announced for 2011 Lucille Lortel Awards, to be Hosted by Zach Braff & Samantha Bee
Broadway.com
Nominations have been announced for the 2011 Lucille Lortel Awards, honoring the best off-Broadway productions, performances and creative team members of the season. The awards will be presented on May 1 at NYU Skirball Center in a ceremony to be hosted by off-Broadway alums Zach Braff (Trust) and Samantha Bee (Love, Loss and What I Wore).
Topping the nominations roster are Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities and Chloe Moss’ This Wide Night with five nominations each. A complete list of nominees follows:
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NOMINATIONS FOR THE 26TH ANNUAL LUCILLE LORTEL AWARDS • • • @MTC_NYC Artistic Director Lynne Meadow to be honored with Lortel Award for Lifetime Achievement • • • @AtlanticTheater receives a Lortel Award nom! THE COLLECTION & A KIND OF ALASKA nominated for Outstanding revival. • • • New Broadway musical THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE begins previews April 1st! @RTC_NYC • • • Bway’s PRISCILLA dance floor hit “It’s Raining Men” was composed by ‘Letterman’s” Paul Shaffer • • • RT @BookofMormonBWY: “ THE BOOK OF MORMON Radio” premieres this Saturday on @SiriusXM_PR • • • Backstage at @WONDERLAND wth Edward Staudenmayer by Kevin M. Thomas • • • Backstage @WONDERLANDbway with Jose Llana By Steve V. Rodriguez • • •
Antitrust Cry From Microsoft
New York Times/Companies – by Steve Lohr
The wheel of technology history turns remarkably fast. Microsoft, whose domination of the technology industry provoked a landmark federal antitrust case, is crying foul against Google and urging European Union antitrust officials to The wheel of technology history turns remarkably fast. Microsoft, whose domination of the technology industry provoked a landmark federal antitrust case, is crying foul against Google and urging European Union antitrust officials to go after the search giant.
Microsoft plans to file a formal antitrust complaint on Thursday in Brussels against Google, its first against another company. Microsoft hopes that the action may prod officials in Europe to take action and that the evidence gathered may also lead officials in the United States to do the same.
In Europe, Microsoft is joining a chorus of complaints, but until now they have come mainly from small Internet companies saying that Google’s search engine unfairly promotes its own products, like Google Product Search, a price comparison site, over rival offerings.
The Internet and smartphones are the markets where energy, investment and soaring stock prices reside. Microsoft, still immensely wealthy, is pouring billions into these fast-growing fields, especially Internet search. Yet the champion of the PC era trails well behind Google.
Microsoft plans to file a formal antitrust complaint on Thursday in Brussels against Google, its first against another company. Microsoft hopes that the action may prod officials in Europe to take action and that the evidence gathered may also lead officials in the United States to do the same.
In Europe, Microsoft is joining a chorus of complaints, but until now they have come mainly from small Internet companies saying that Google’s search engine unfairly promotes its own products, like Google Product Search, a price comparison site, over rival offerings.
The Internet and smartphones are the markets where energy, investment and soaring stock prices reside. Microsoft, still immensely wealthy, is pouring billions into these fast-growing fields, especially Internet search. Yet the champion of the PC era trails well behind Google.
To read this article in its entirety, click the link below
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/technology/companies/31google.html?ref=business
The Cloud That Rains Music
New York Times – by David Pogue
For years now, the most popular music system — Apple’s — has worked like this. You buy song files from the iTunes store. They download to your computer. If you want to listen to them on the road, you connect your iPod or iPhone to that computer and copy the files to it.
Amazon, whose online music store competes with Apple’s, has two problems with that arrangement. First, your music library is messily scattered. When you buy a new song at home, you can’t listen to it at work, at least not without copying it manually. You might buy a song on your phone, but it won’t be on your computer until you do a sync. And if your music library is big, you can fit only a portion of it onto your phone.
Second, Amazon wishes more people would buy music from its store instead of iTunes.
This week, the online retailer took the wraps off a slick suite of software and services that solves both problems, and offers some sweet incentives for you to consider it.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/technology/personaltech/31pogue.html?ref=business
The Billboard Charts ~ Issue Date: 2011-04-09
Billboard Top Broadway Cast Album Catalog:
#1. Wicked, Original Broadway Cast Recording
#2. Jersey Boys, Original Broadway Cast Recording
#3. Les Miserables Live!: New 25th Anniversary Production, The 2010 Cast Album