A new twist on the bedside alarm clock from Sony could wake you up with local news, weather, photos from friends and even unreleased videos from your favorite artist.

During an hour-long panel at the CES Mobile Entertainment event today, a host of executives from places ranging from Pandora to *SanDisk* and *Motorola* to *Sony* *Ericsson* talked about the mobile music industry with a couple of topics standing out: the news yesterday that iTunes will allow full-track music downloads over-the-air for the same price, and the question of whether negotiations ...

Five years ago the BPI, the UK record labels' trade body, had some gloomy news: only one-third of the music acquired in the country the previous year came through legitimate channels. One third went in pirate discs, and the other through illicit downloads. Hearing the news at the time, I observed to Peter Jamieson, then head of the BPI, that his members' business was doomed. How could it ...

10:50 a.m. ? Cantate, a nonprofit community choir, invites interested music lovers to join them for their spring season. Rehearsals begin at 7 p.m. on Jan. 22 at St. John's parish hall in Upper Tumon. All you need is an ability to commit to weekly Thursday night rehearsals and a love of music.

Giving Spree Santa Cruz do-gooder Rowland Rebele on the joy of philanthropy.