Now, a software that lets fans play music like the Beatles!

August 31st, 2009 Beatles, Stones, Super Mario: big autumn for gamesNEW YORK — With a little help from the Beatles, Super Mario and price cuts from Sony and Microsoft, the slumping video game industry is hoping for a sales resurrection this fall. The season gets a late-summer start Tuesday, with the release of "Guitar Hero 5," a game featuring music from the Rolling Stones, Nirvana and other popular bands.

March 18th, 2009 LONDON - A software device developed by researchers can recognise musical characteristics and sort songs according to moods, besides blending in suitable images to the rhythm of music. Until now, anyone wishing to maintain an overview of their favourite music and photos had to laboriously assign keywords to everything using cumbersome administration software.

June 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A group of UGR researchers have come up with a software program that can enable a person who knows nothing about musical compositions to create an original one on his/her own. Project leaders Miguel Delgado, Waldo Fajardo, and Miguel Molina have revealed that their prototype Intelligent Multiagent Music System (Inmamusys) can compose and play music in real time.

July 29th, 2009 Video game site lets players bet on their skillsNEW YORK — Although you can win or lose real money, BringIt.com is not considered online gambling, and it's legal in 39 states. The site, which lets players challenge other gamers for money, says it is different from online poker and other games of chance because video games are considered a game of skill.

June 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Electrical engineers at UC San Diego have designed novel music discovery games on Facebook in order to improve their experimental music search engine that is capable of listening to new songs and accurately labelling them with words-with no help from humans. The engineers launched the music discovery games on Facebook as an application called Herd It.

June 4th, 2009 Sony becomes 2nd label on Vevo music video site LOS ANGELES — Recording company Sony Music Entertainment has joined Vevo, an online music video site due to launch this year with the backing of Universal Music Group and YouTube. The music unit of Sony Corp.

May 31st, 2009 LONDON - By using a new software, researchers from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the University of Edinburgh have been able to recreate a long forgotten musical instrument called the Lituus. Played in Ancient Rome, the 2.4m (8ft) long trumpet-like instrument fell out of use some 300 years ago.

September 30th, 2009 YouTube says Warner Music videos back in monthsLOS ANGELES — YouTube says music videos from Warner Music Group Corp. will return to the video site in the coming months after a nine-month dispute over deal terms.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - Music lovers who are addicted to watching online videos on Youtube will not be able to do so anymore as Google has blocked viewings after a dispute over licensing. Google had started blocking UK viewers from watching "premium music videos" from the night of March 9.

August 19th, 2009 MySpace buys iLike in bid to restore lost lusterLOS ANGELES — Social networking hub MySpace said Wednesday it is acquiring iLike, a popular music application on rival Facebook, in the first move by new management to restore some of its lost luster on the Internet. The $20 million agreement to purchase iLike confirmed rumors that had circulated this week and was the first play that new CEO Owen Van Natta has made to expand MySpace's Web footprint after a series of drastic cuts and writedowns.

August 19th, 2009 MySpace scoops up popular Facebook app iLikeLOS ANGELES — Social networking hub MySpace said Wednesday it is acquiring iLike, a popular music application on rival Facebook, in the first move by new management to expand after a series of drastic cuts and writedowns. The $20 million agreement to purchase iLike confirmed rumors that had circulated this week.

August 21st, 2009 Court: Yahoo's LAUNCHcast not 'interactive'LOS ANGELES — A federal appeals court in New York says Yahoo's LAUNCHcast music service is not "interactive" enough to require separate licensing deals with recording labels. The 2nd U.S.

January 19th, 2009 CANNES - Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias has said that illegal downloading of songs from the Internet 'is like going to the supermarket and coming out with... two melons under your arm, free: it's all stealing in the end', EFE news agency reported.

June 10th, 2009 Facebook, like MySpace, lets users show full nameNEW YORK — Facebook is further embracing the real name culture it touts as one of its founding principles — and catching up with rival MySpace in the process. Starting at 12:01 a.m.

August 21st, 2009 Online radio service wins ruling over license feesNEW YORK — Personalized Internet radio stations got a boost Friday when a federal appeals court ruled that Yahoo's LAUNCHcast music service was not interactive enough to be forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in licensing fees. The 2nd U.S.