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Amazon Lures Authors with 70% Royalty Deal, and HTML5
When money talks, people tend to listen. In a bid to lure authors, Amazon.com on Wednesday said it would give writers 70% of the revenue, minus expenses, from their digital books sales on Amazon's Kindle store. In addition, Amazon said it is giving authors the ability to sell their Kindle digital books on their own websites, ...
Me, Myself and iPhone
Smile. At least that was the conclusion of a recent study by OkCupid.com, the popular dating site for 20-somethings. To determine which factors made a photo more attractive, the staff tabulated the number of interested responses to thousands of pictures, then broke down their characteristics. The findings were intriguing, to say the least. Women ...
Feds Crack Down on Internet Movie Pirates, Score Bust
Adding some swashbuckling to its tough talk on fighting piracy, the federal government Wednesday seized several websites that were offering downloads of pirated movies such as “Toy Story 3" and “Iron Man 2" within hours of their release in theaters. Federal authorities announced that they had seized domain names from nine websites engaged in the “criminal ...
Antenna Engineers, Apple Wants You to Help with iPhone Reception
This may be the right way to hold the iPhone 4, according to Apple. Are you an unemployed antenna engineer who specializes in wireless mobile devices? Apple Inc. might have a job for you. The company, which is under fire for reception problems with its newest iPhone model and its iPad tablet computer, has posted ...
Mike King: 5 Social Media and Online Marketing Tips
Mike King (@atomzooey), Director of Marketing at Berkleemusic and teacher of Online Music Marketing with Topspin, sentin this informative post: 1. Social media is a tool which amplifies existing efforts. These are not my words (I think it's from Jeff Jarvis?), but it rings true to me. Folks talk about the importance of ...
YouTube: HTML5 Video is No Match for Flash
YouTube has some bad news for those of you hoping the site would soon ditch Flash in favor of HTML5 video tags: It isnt going to happen any time soon. Thats message from the YouTube developer blog which cites half-a-dozen areas where Flash trumps HTML5 and explains why the tag does not currently meet all the ...
9 Things You Need to Know About the Internet
John Naughton, a professor of the public understanding of technology at the Open University, has published a brilliant overview of everything you ever need to know about the internet in the Guardian. In his essay, he goes over nine of the big ideas that are central to understanding this massive technological force: Take the long ...
Sonicbids Adds Execs from monster.com and Yahoo
Fresh off its acquisition of ArtistData, Sonicbids has expanded its executive team and board of directors. Former Monster.com CFO Martin Kelleher has been named Chief Operations and Financial Officer and former Yahoo product manager Nitzan Achsaf will step in as VP of Product. ArtistData founder Brenden Mulligan had been named VP of Strategic Partnerships after last ...
In Face-Off With China, Google Blinks
Google said it will stop automatically redirecting web searchers in China to an uncensored portal in Hong Kong as it hopes to convince Beijing to renew its operating license in the world's largest Internet market. Google's unexpected announcement comes ahead of Wednesday's deadline when the Internet giants license is up for renewal. Its clear from conversations ...
E.U. Criticizes Mobile Phone Roaming Charges
Mobile phone operators in Europe are charging close to the highest roaming fees allowed, three years after price caps were first imposed, according to data released Tuesday by the European Commission. The findings raise the likelihood that the commission will recommend next year that the European Unions price caps be extended, rather than be allowed to ...
