By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net

GADGET maker Oregon Scientific is literally scaling through great heights to promote its new waterproof camera.

The Portland-based manufacturer will sponsor Everest Rocks, touted as the first-ever rock concert to take place in Mount Everest. The company has formed a partnership with the Love Hope Strength Foundation as the concert’s official sponsor.

A fourteen-day trek up Mount Everest by 40 of the world’s top musicians and mountaineers, Everest Rocks will culminate with the first-ever rock concert to take place at Mount Everest’s Base Camp.

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By Pocholo Concepcion
Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines–“I will never leave Orange and Lemons… They just wanted to kick me out. Absurd and outrageous.

“The recent ballyhooed misunderstanding between me and my band mates, including [our management] No Seat Affair and [record label] Universal Records, has yet to reach a conclusion. I’m sorry if it took me a while to post anything official since I am still trying to assess the situation and settle our differences. Time is a very important element. I assure you that this is not a publicity gimmick.”

These statements were posted by Orange and Lemons guitarist/co-songwriter Clem Castro in his blogspot three months ago, shortly before the band flew to the US for a concert series.

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TOMORROW, Oct. 10, at 9: 30 p.m., New Media Arts Manila (NMAM) will hold its first project, a sound art conference at Club Dredd, second floor of Gweilos Eastwood. The event is open to the public for free, and NMAM’s event partners include Globe, Sony Ericsson and Asus.

Here’s more info from our friend and fellow tech journalist Jing Garcia:

New Media Arts Manila (NMAM) was formed to curate, stage, and promote New Media Art — art made with electronic, audiovisual, and information technologies. It includes sound art, video art, interactive electronics, algorithmic art, computer music, and whatever art forms new technologies may yet spawn. As NMAM’s first project, ELECTROSTATIC SOUND CONFERENCE will showcase the full range of performative sound art pieces through the performances of the following artists:

Malek Lopez, Berklee-trained virtuoso who is the principal composer for the band Drip, and half of the abrasive electronica duo Rubber Inc.;

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CHECK out this video of “The Police: The Early Years Live in Boston” where Boston Phoenix archivist David Bieber narrates the history of the Police’s early shows.

By Agence France-Presse

CHICAGO–In the first US trial to challenge the illegal downloading of music on the Internet, a single mother from Minnesota was ordered Thursday to pay more than $220, 000 for sharing 24 songs online.

Jammie Thomas, 30, was the first among more than 26,000 people sued by the world’s most powerful recording companies to refuse a settlement after being slapped with a lawsuit by the Recording Industry of America and six major music labels.

She turned down an offer to pay a few thousand dollars in fines and instead took the case to court.

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