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gridMob's Lady Gaga iOKi
First True Karaoke Experience for iPhone, Now Available in iTunes App Store : (November 23, 2009) LOS ANGELES, BUSINESS WIRE : Mobile entertainment innovators gridMob today released the first true karaoke experience for iPhone and iPod Touch, with help from Interscope hit artist Lady Gaga Read more

Singing Chinese girl revealed to be computer generated
Lin Miaoke, exists only as a digital creation. Chinese government officials sent shockwaves through the international community this morning when they revealed that the nine-year-old girl who sang at the 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremony was in fact a computer-generated illusion. Read More....

Bader UK Karaoke Challenge
Have you entered? This national karaoke competition is still open with finalists being whisked away to Morocco for the Grand Final in December......

Doing the Business
In his last-ever Doing The Business, Big George burns all his boats with some radical ideas about what should be done with the British music industry...
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Karaoke Funeral by Dick Eastman
A Malaysian coffin-maker got his final wish when his family and friends serenaded his body with some of his favorite old Mandarin and Thai hits from the 1960s and 1970s.
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MP3 Summit gets Karaoke Fever
Internet music provider MP3.com and its partners kicked off their third annual MP3 Summit with an array of new developments, including a karaoke service and an open source alternative to MP3.
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Karaoke as a Teaching Tool
Mime and music can help teachers to accelerate the learning process - article and lesson plan ideas for teachers.
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Contrived script makes for sour notes in karaoke-filled 'Duets'
Since Gwyneth Paltrow is the hottest actress in Hollywood and her father, Bruce, is far from an A-list director, their teaming in the low-budget drama, "Duets," has an air of nepotistic charity about it that has generated mostly negative advance buzz. Actually, the movie is not all that bad. Its reach may be quite a bit beyond its grasp, but it's mostly a well-acted, atmospheric little ensemble piece that says something about the soulless center of American society and the karaoke subculture in particular. By William Arnold Seattle Post-Intelligencer Movie Critic
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Site News & Updates

6 Dec 2009
Minor template changes and major update! NEW KARAOKE AUCTION Page! New games have been added to the games section. Name that tune has been removed as no longer works. All pages have been re-coded to xhtml browser compatible for Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer. Most of the products in the Karaoke Shop have been updated and the links to external sites have been re-checked, dead links removed and new links added - please let me know if you find any broken links!

26 Nov 2006
Added details, image and link to the new book by KrazyKats Webmistress called 'Karaoke!'. The amusing guide to the world of karaoke and singing!!!

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