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Legal Strings Remain in Novell-SCO Group Tussle over Unix

There are still some dangling legal strings that need to be trimmed, and those won’t happen for at least a few weeks — barring any more appeals, of course, by SCO Group. One of them involves counterclaims by IBM and Red Hat.
– Although open-source advocates around the world celebrated a court victory
March 30 when a Salt
Lake City jury confirmed that the licensing rights to the Unix operating system
belong to Novell and not to the SCO
Group, the nearly 7-year-old legal dispute over IP is not yet over.

In its lawsui…


Sleepy Sun Album Details & New Tour Dates

SLEEP SUN TO RELEASE FEVER AND TOUR IN SUPPORT

Sleepy Sun

Sleepy Sun is a California
band from many Californias. They hail from the rolling oak and sage hills of Sierra Gold Country, the San Francisco
Peninsula, where Kesey raged and the Dead were once Warlocks, and the forever-sunshine climes of the Southland. They came together and birthed the Sleepy sound — dead blues shaken alive, razor sharp and ramblin’, soul, sonic science and dead-on pop surgery. Wooden, earthy, stratospheric, and swinging… California music of beautiful
contrasts for conflicted times.

Now, two records into a frighteningly fast-blossoming evolution, Sleepy Sun are a living machine of fire and focus. Their first release on ATP records Embrace illuminated the golden path to Sleepy land — hard-riffing, delicate, dreamy and cultivated. The latest ATP release, Fever, is arrival at the palace the path promised.

Fever is the honey harmonies and danger wailing of Bret Constantino and Rachel
Williams
pulled from a tender tangle into steel-strong braid; the wing-on-wing guitars of Matt
Holliman
and Even Reiss in screaming dives and sweet ascending circles; the lowdown served up
tough and thundering from drum and bass authorities Brian Tice and Jack Allen.

ATP Recordings will be releasing a limited edition EP to celebrate Record Store Day on April 17 featuring
tracks from Built to Spill,
Apse, Sleepy Sun and
Fursaxa. Limited to just 1000 copies worldwide, the 10″ will feature tracks from recent and soon to be released
albums on ATP/R. Click here to for more on the sampler.

Fever Track Listing

1. “Marina”

2. “Rigamaroo”

3. “Wild Machines”

4. “Ooh Boy”

5. “Acid Love”

6. “Desert God”

7. “Open Eyes”

8. “Freedom Line”

9. “Sandstorm Woman”


Fever is due 05/17 in the U.K. and 06/01 in the U.S. via ATP Recordings.

Sleepy Sun Tour Dates :: Sleepy Sun News :: Sleepy Sun Concert Reviews


April 1: ST Engineering, Boustead, TTJ, SBI Offshore, Neratel

Singapore shares closed lower yesterday with the blue-chip Straits Times Index down 45.93 points to 2,887.46. Volume was 1.65 billion shares worth $1.85 billion. Losers led gainers 377 to 142. US stocks fell last night as a report showing a surprising drop in private-sector employment stoked concerns about the health of the labour market two days before the government’s key jobs data. Here are some stocks to watch, says The Edge Singapore:

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New Pornographers Announce North American Dates & Single

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES AND NEW
SINGLE

New Pornographers

A quick gander and the snowfall-laden countdown to the May 4 release of Together reveals
you’ve got limited time to place a pre-order for the fifth and arguably finest studio album from The New Pornographers. You’ll
have even less time to get it in gear unless you wanna be on the outside looking in when The New Pornographers
roll into your town in a few weeks time. Tickets for the North America tour starting June 7 are now available with reduced service charge for a limited period. General sale commences March 26. Click below for details.

“The Crash Years,” the latest New Pornographers singles, is available via the iTunes Music Store.

Pre-order Together from The Matador Store on LP or CD
before May 4 and you’ll receive a free poster plus a 7″, The New Pornographers Play Outrageous
Cherry
, featuring three outrageous Cherry covers.

New Pornographers Tour
Dates
:: New
Pornographers News
:: New Pornographers Concert
Reviews


Survey: Developer Interest in Android Up, iPad Wanes

Appcelerator, maker of the open-source Titanium cross-platform mobile, desktop and Web development platform, has released a new survey of its developer base that indicates that, while still hot, developer interest in Apple’s iPad is slightly on the wane from earlier this year, while interest in the Google Android platform continues to grow.
– Appcelerator, maker of the open-source
Titanium cross-platform mobile, desktop and Web development platform, has
released a new survey of its developer base that indicates that, while still
hot, developer interest in Apple’s iPad is slightly on the wane from earlier
this year, while interest in …