Reuters - On a current Monday morning, Mariah Carey flew the red-eye from late-model York to Los Angeles, stopped by Ryan Seacrest's morning portable radio show to chat, recorded a background vocal track for the song "I thwart in Love" to go to her upcoming album, then recorded a video allowing for regarding Wal-Mart's "Soundcheck" series, which will be used as bonus footage online and played in stores.

AP - In a Nov. 14 story round a federal court motion filed against music VIP Sean "Diddy" Combs, The Associated squeeze quoted from documents erroneously described as FBI investigation records related to an inquiry of the 1994 shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur. FBI spokesman Stephen Kodak told the AP Friday that the documents can't be found in the agency's records and don't appear to be legitimate.

TechWeb - Fees collected from the customers of ISPs could generate $20 billion annually, which would be divided mid artists and copyright holders.

AP - Broadcast Music Inc. is projecting U.S. sales of responsive phone ringtones ordain be lost in 2008 compared to last year.

TechWeb - The company that licenses music is bullish on mobile audio and TV, but says ring tones bear at sea their novelty and cheaper alternatives are available.

Reuters - Teenagers appear to know that clamorous music can devastation their hearing, just most ride out no reason to bring the volume on their iPods, a ungenerous scan suggests.

USATODAY.com - Amazon's MP3 shop - which sells only songs without copy protection - has quietly become No. 2 in digital sales since opening nearly six months ago. That's still while Apple dominates digital music with its iTunes Store (the move-largest music retailer in the world, after Wal-Mart) and its hugely common iPod.

AP - The CEO of Sony BMG Music Entertainment says that the company is developing an online music subscription service that would give users measureless access to its music and be compatible with a host of digital music players.

PC fantastic - China expressive, the world's largest transportable phone usage provider, posted bold extension across the quarter in subscribers, gross income, end profit, callow music handling members and ready-mixed messaging users, the company reported Wednesday.

NewsFactor - Sony on Thursday said the next firmware update in the service of the PlayStation 3 video-game console bequeath tot up Blu-streak Disc chart 2.0. The update is precisely out past due this month. Known as BD-Live, the update will tender PS3 players interactive features, such as downloadable video content, ringtones and games. Beyond BD-white-hot, the update at one's desire make room for photo and music playlists on PS3 to be copied to a PSP handheld symbol.