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From AOL News:

TCG CERFnet (NASDAQ:TCGI) and MRD New Media Entertainment announced today that they have teamed up to provide Internet connectivity and additional technical coordination for MSN, The Microsoft Network Online Service,Webcast of the U2 PopMart concert.

The July 2 Webcast (http://u2popmart.msn.com), which will begin at 7:00 p.m. EDT, is the most ambitious MSN Webcast to date. U2 fans from all over the globe will not only be able to peer through a live camera focused on Boston’s Foxboro Stadium stage, they will be able to adjust the camera angle or zoom in and out.

From USA Today:

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"I think I’ve been busted," said U2 guitarist The Edge, a few seconds into his karaoke rendition of Daydream Believer Saturday. Yup. Davy Jones of the Monkees came onstage to finish the Monkees hit. Celebs at the L.A. Coliseum concert: Michael Keaton, Billy Bob Thornton, Richard Gere, George Michael. Spotted backstage: Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder (not together) Quincy Jones, Melissa Etheridge, Gillian Anderson.

From SHOOT:

Vol. 38, Issue 25

LIVE ON LIVE: LED VIDEOWALL GOES ON THE ROAD WITH U2’S ’POPMART’

Concert Footage And Graphics Enhance Concert.

U2’s "POPMART" world concert tour, which kicked off in April and willrun through March 1998, is giving new meaning to the word entertainment. While the band is performing onstage, a 56-foot high, 170-foot wide LED display videowall (cost: $7 million) presents a mix of live concert footage, graphics and animation behind them, creating, in effect, a live show within a live show.

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From The Boston Herald:

PopMart invades the Web with a massive dose of U2By Annette Cardwell

Microsoft and rock megaband U2 want fans to go shopping on line startingtoday with the launch of the official site for the massive PopMart tour (http://U2popmart.msn.com).

Plans for the site include regularly updated tour news, photos, multimedia games, an interactive tour map, a "Pop Fly Cam" with 360-degree shots from the stage and "PopMart Radio," playing all U2 all the time.

The site gets a proper kickoff tonight with a "Pop Invasion" Webcast beginning at 9 live from the studios of Los Angeles’ KROQ, featuring interviews and digital photos. And if FM radio is your idea of going online, WBCN also will broadcast the show live.

The PopMart tour arrives at Foxboro Stadium July 1-2.

From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

You too can access official site for U2Amy Frazier, STAFF WRITER

Pop goes the world —the World Wide Web, that is —when the first officialU2 Web site hits the Internet today.

From 9 to 10 p.m., the band will give a live interview from the studios ofKROQ in Los Angeles that can be heard on the site with RealAudio. Thecybercast, dubbed "Pop Invasion," will include digital pictures of theinterview.

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From USA Today:

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U2 and Microsoft Network launch what’s billed as the band’s first "official" Web site Friday. Audio, plus digital photos, will be available at http://U2popmart.msn.com. . . .