M2M (band)

M2M was a Norwegian pop music duo comprising Marion Raven and Marit Larsen. Raven and Larsen had been friends since the age of five, and formed their first band when they were eight. They released a children's album under the name "Marion & Mariot", which was nominated for a Spellemannprisen award when they were 12. They later changed their name to M2M and were signed to Atlantic Records in 1998. M2M were frequently praised for writing most of their songs and performing their own instruments, something which was considered to set them aside from the majority of pop music artists.

Their debut single, Don't Say You Love Me (1999), was both a critical and commercial success, and remained their biggest hit. Their debut album, Shades of Purple (2000), was critically acclaimed and sold over 1.5 million units worldwide. Despite critical acclaim, their second album, The Big Room (2002), did not perform as well commercially, and the duo broke up the year of its release, with each pursuing a solo career. A 'best of' album, The Day You Went Away: The Best of M2M (2003) was released after they disbanded. M2M sold over 2 million albums.

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M2M

M2M may refer to:

Entertainment

Mission to Mars (attraction) at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, Florida USA

Mission to Mars (2000), a science fiction film inspired by the attraction

Mission to Mars (2000), a science fiction film inspired by the attraction

Music

M2M (band), a Norwegian pop duo

Minutes to Midnight (album), by Linkin Park

Technology

M2M (Eclipse), an implementation of the Object Management Group's QVT standard for model transformation

Machine to Machine, machine to machine communications

Many-to-many (data model), as an entity-relationship model

Mobile-to-mobile convergence

Other uses

Man-to-man defense, a defensive tactic used in a variety of sports

mothers2mothers, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV

M2M (Eclipse)

MMT (formerly called M2M) is the Eclipse implementation of the OMG QVT standard (the Eclipse foundation is now a member of OMG as of January 2007). MMT is a subproject of Eclipse Modeling Project (EMP).

Three components are available for model to model transformations:

ATL (ATLAS Transformation Language) from INRIA

Procedural QVT, from Borland

Declarative QVT, from Obeo

Implementations announced by Obeo and Borland should be available in the near future.

External links

MMT Project home page

M2M newsgroup : Updated information is available from the corresponding newsgroup, providing latest news on the evolution of the three implementations and of bridges between them.

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+/- (band)

+/-, or Plus/Minus, is an American indietronic band formed in 2001. The band makes use of both electronic and traditional instruments, and has sought to use electronics to recreate traditional indie rock song forms and instrumental structures. The group has released two albums on each of the American indie labels Teenbeat Records and Absolutely Kosher, and their track "All I do" was prominently featured in the soundtrack for the major film Wicker Park. The group has developed a devoted following in Japan and Taiwan, and has toured there frequently. Although many artists append bonus tracks onto the end of Japanese album releases to discourage purchasers from buying cheaper US import versions, the overseas versions of +/- albums are usually quite different from the US versions - tracklists can be rearranged, artwork with noticeable changes is used, and tracks from the US version can be replaced as well as augmented by bonus tracks.