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IPhone app firm SonicMule puts music at users' fingertips

May. 7, 2009
Co-founder Ge Wang's love of computers and music led to Smule's Ocarina app. More than 900,000 copies of the 99-cent application have been sold, and other offerings are also doing well. Ge Wang blows softly, his fingers move lightly, and "Auld Lang Syne" comes floating out in ethereal...
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch