Most Email Was Spam In 2007
Spam comprised 95 percent of all email traffic in 2007 according to anti-spam company SpamStopsHere. Spammers experimented with attaching encoded messages in a variety of file formats including MP3, Zip, Excel, Word and PDF. MP3 spam proved to be short lived. Spammers attached MP3 files named after popular songs and artists. When a recipient opened [...]
Major Music Companies Lose Case Against Baidu
Baidu’s MP3 search engine is often fingered as one of the main reasons for the company’s success. And for the foreseeable future, it will continue to fill this role, as the People’s High Court of Beijing just ruled against a group led by EMI, SONY BMG, and Universal Music. read more More: continued here major [...]
Has the DRM Free Experiment Failed?
The last year has been filled with announcement after announcement marking the end of DRM. DRM-free pioneer eMusic was thriving. EMI dropped DRM across its entire catalog. Indie after indie dropped. Universal launched and then expanded a DRM free "experiment" that now feels like permannt policy shift. Amazon launched a DRM free mp3 store to [...]
Virgin America To Offer Music Videos
Virgin America and VH1 have partnered to offer domestic, on-demand music video library on the carrier’s New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington DC and Las Vegas routes. The Virgin America-VH1 music video library is available on the Red inflight entertainment system, which includes videos from popular artists on VH1 networks, including Shakira, John Legend, [...]
The Importance Of Research From SEO Expert, Jerry West
Howie Schwartz from SearchingDot.com recently interviewed Jerry West, an SEO expert. I just finished listening to the MP3. I found the interview very useful. Jerry knows SEO.Here is some of Jerry’s helpful advice.Before targeting a keyword, research its competition on the SERPs.Jerry advised on using these Google commands: allintitle, allinanchor, and allintext. [...] More: continued [...]
Microsoft Jams To MP3 Verdict Win
The patent battle between Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent over digital music patents took a twist when a judge decided Microsoft won’t have to pay a $1.52 billion jury verdict.Several hours after the decision, Microsoft announced a $50 price cut on its Xbox 360 gaming console. Perhaps gamers should celebrate the judgment handed down by a federal [...]
Book-On-Tape, Meet RSS On iPod
MagneticTime has launched a new version of their iNewsCaster, formerly known as the MT-Personal NewsCaster. The iNewsCaster Version 2.0 has a new look and features better functionality with a built in Web browser. The iNewsCaster allows users to listen to all of their personalized RSS feeds on their iPod, PDA, cell phone or desktop. It [...]
AOL Challenges iPhone With Mobile Winamp
AOL is set to launch a new mobile product next week that will allow users to connect to their PC-based music collections from their mobile phones. An extension of the hardly noticed Winamp Remote PC-to-PC media streaming service that launched earlier, the PC-to-mobile service, in effect, turns a mobile phone into a MP3 player. If [...]
Mobile Convergence And The Consumer
According to Parks Associates, U.S. consumers have a favorable opinion of convergence in mobile devices. The marketing research and consulting firm reports that 41 percent of U.S. households own a camera phone and 21 percent own an MP3 music phone. The company is launching a new consumer survey Mobile Entertainment: Platforms and Services to examine [...]
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