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Music Labels Betting on New iTunes Pricing
Apple Inc and major music labels are betting that the launch of three-tier pricing at the iTunes Music Store will boost music sales with a new mix of song-based packages and give consumers more options. Apple will announce its new three-tier price points at 69 cents, 99 cents and $1.29 on Tuesday, according to several people ...
Google: Google News Doesn't Violate AP Rules
Google on Tuesday denied that its News section will be in violation of recently announced content rules from the Associated Press. The news service on Monday announced that it would offer rate cuts to struggling papers but would also sue Web sites that used its content without permission. “Since then, some readers, users, and journalists have ...
Google Makes Searches Local
You can run, but you can't hide from Google. The search engine giant this week completed a worldwide rollout of local search results in Maps. You can now type in a generic name such as “bank" or “pharmacy" without specifying a location, and Google will return results in your area. “How do we guess your location? ...
Twitter Use Continues to Soar
The endless stream of Twitter news appears to have paid off for the micro-blogging site. Global visits to Twitter approached 10 million in February, up 700 percent from the same time last year, according to comScore. Of that, about 4 million visitors were in the U.S.--a 1,000-percent increase. In the past two months alone, global Twitter ...
Yahoo Music to Include iTunes, Youtube Integration
Yahoo will launch a revamped version of its music service Tuesday, which will include artists' pages and modules from competing services like iTunes, Pandora, and Amazon. Users visiting Yahoo Music will have the option of listening to music from iTunes, Amazon, Last.fm, Rhapsody, Pandora, or YouTube while remaining on the Yahoo site. The site will also ...
Skype to Launch for iPhone, Blackberry
Skype, the Internet telephone unit of eBay Inc, is planning to launch its service for iPhone users on Tuesday and for BlackBerry in May as part of its effort to expand beyond desktop computers. Skype has been pushing to make its service work on the most popular advanced phones with an aim to expending its more ...
Playboy Posts Unedited Back Issues Online, for Free
Sex sells, especially when it's free. Through a partnership between Microsoft and Bondi Digital Publishing, Playboy Enterprises has put 53 back issues of Playboy on the Web, viewable through Microsoft's Silverlight viewer. The images are free to access at PlayboyArchive.com, with no age verification required. The issues cover the years 1954 through 2007, and appear as ...
Sirius XM's Loss Shrinks, Subscribers Increase
Sirius XM Radio posted better than expected quarterly sales and a smaller loss, fueled by cost cutting and increased subscriptions for its satellite pay-radio service. Sirius, which last week said it had completed a critical financing move that solved looming debt problems for the year, said its sales rose to $622.2 million, up 16 percent from ...
Seattle Paper May Shift to Online Only
Hearst Corp, one of the largest U.S. publishers, has offered some of its Seattle Post-Intelligencer (P-I) staff work in an online-only version of the paper, amidst speculation that the newspaper's print edition may be shutting down, according to media reports. Hearst Corp, one of the largest U.S. publishers, has offered some of its Seattle Post-Intelligencer (P-I) ...
Twitter (Finally) Integrating Search Function
For all of that talk of Twitter being the next great search engine, the microblogging service has never exactly been aggressive about integrating the function. Users have traditionally had visit search.twitter.com in order to find anything on the site. That looks like it's about to change. Twitter is slowly rolling out its search function for some ...
