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Check this monster out: Watch the morning news, download recipes, send and receive e-mail, or leave video messages for your family with a refrigerator? You can if it’s the LG Multi-Media Refrigerator. It combines leading-edge refrigerator technology with digital connectivity and control and brings you an unprecedented degree of convenience, …

We were just talking about the Haunted House at Disneyland, and now we have word that Universal Orlando’s Hard Rock Hotel is taking the haunted house concept one step further: Universal Orlando’s Hard Rock Hotel will bring to life (or death as the case might be) beginning October 4 as …

RIAA’s Rosen tells House that P2P undermining warning system: Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) chairman/CEO Hilary Rosen told lawmakers yesterday (Oct. 1) that the industry’s parental-advisory labeling program is being undermined by massive downloading of unauthorized music files from peer-to-peer networks. Speaking at a House hearing reviewing music marketing …

John Mutter and Edward Nawotka report for PW Daily for Booksellers on cautious optimism among booksellers for the holiday season: The sagging stock market, rising unemployment, bellicose talk in Washington and a dragging economy continue to make many Wall Street analysts and general retailers pessimistic about the holiday season. Booksellers …

Silicon Valley strikes back against Hollywood: The battle being waged in Washington over copyright in the digital age ratchets up a notch this week as new legislation is introduced aimed at clarifying consumer rights. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, plans today to introduce the “Digital Choice and Freedom Act,” Silicon …

New Elvis #1’s collection about to debut on top of the world: Twenty-five years after his death, Elvis Presley, the King of Rock ‘n Roll, is about to do something he never managed in life — debut an album at No. 1 on record charts around the world. According to …

Says Conan O’Brien: It’s amazing what famous people will tell you when you lock them in a small, dark room and deprive them of human contact. From Snoop to Shatner and Fabio to Mr. T, we’ve got all their whimpering confessions caught on tape. PALTROW SECRETS: “You’d never know it …

Speaking of new music distribution formats, this one appears to have failed: DataPlay, a company attempting to replace CDs as the music format of choice, has missed its announced release date and appears unlikely to survive. Employees were put on mandatory leave and told to call in Friday for a …

This campaign didn’t work: the House of Representatives canceled a vote on Tuesday that would have postponed royalty payments for Internet radio broadcasts. The bill’s sponsor pulled it from consideration after Internet Webcasters and the music industry promised they could settle a years-long dispute over royalty rates by the end …

For you serious “bookie” types (reading not wagering), there is Book TV all weekend long (Saturday at 8 a.m. to Monday at 8a.m.) on C-SPAN2. The schedule this weekend: Saturday, October 5 (All times Eastern) 8 a.m. Children’s Books. From Tillicum Middle School in Bellevue, Wash., Helen Szablya and Peggy …