YouTube Asked to Pull Videos by Viacom

Viacom has demanded that YouTube pull more than 100,000 clips. This action follows negotiations between Viacom, YouTube and its parent company Google to allow use of the company's videos on the site. Viacom said that the issued take down order was because of ineffective filtering tools that had been promised in order to weed out content owned by Viacom.

Covers Album to Include Songs by Magic Numbers, Flaming Lips, Dido

A covers album called Sounds Eclectic: The Covers Project will feature covers by artists of songs by their peers. The album will have R.E.M. covering Glen Campbell and John Hartford, the Flaming lips covering Radio, The Magic Numbers covering Beyonce and Dido covering James Taylor. The proceeds of the album will go towards preserving KCRW's, a National Public Radio flagship radio station, music library. Other artists that contributed tracks include Paul Weller, Robert Plant, Nikka Costa, Rufus Wainright, K.D. Lang and M Ward. The album will be available exclusively at Starbucks in the US. It will also be available from www.hearmusic.com

Apple Cautions iTunes Users from Installing Vista

Apple has cautioned iTunes users from installing Microsoft's Windows Vista. Apple has cited a number of compatibility issues that may cause problems between the popular media player, the operating system and the iPod. The problems include a possible corruption of the iPod, slow running time, and an inability to play music and videos bought from the iTunes music store. Apple intends to release a new version of iTunes in the next few weeks to address the issues.