The Lowdown on Downloading »
From Inform | 2009-07-02 14:30:45
The internet changed everything, including the consumption of music. Albums were no longer the sole distributor of music; instead, individuals could download tunes-hopefully for some nominal fee, often illegally for free. Online distribution exploded, and the numbers are astonishing. Digital music now generates about $2 billion in sales, about 10 percent of the total global market.
In 2006, about five billion songs were swapped on peer-to-peer websites, while another 509 million songs were bought online. The song "Low," by Flo Rida, is the most popular song in music downloads, with ...
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From AP News | 2009-07-02 17:35:22
In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don't have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence. Increasingly, states aching under the weight of the recession are seeking a way around that rule. Because companies like Amazon.com Inc. get help drumming up sales from online affiliates — people who link to products on their blogs, promote Web shopping deals and offer coupons — several states ...
Microsoft adds selected "tweets" to Bing »
From AFP Global Edition | 2009-07-02 17:00:50
Microsoft is integrating messages from prominent users of Twitter, the hot micro-blogging service, into the results generated by its new Internet search engine Bing. Microsoft said that it did not plan to index all of Twitter and make it searchable, just "some of the more prominent and prolific Twitterers from a variety of spheres" such as former vice president Al Gore. Twitter is seen by some technology analysts as the next frontier in the field of Web search because of the real-time nature of the messages from its users. Twitter ...
Jay Leno wins cybersquatting case »
From Reuters US Online Report Technology News | 2009-07-02 16:27:23
GENEVA (Reuters) - Comedian and talk show host Jay Leno has won a cybersquatting case against a Texas man found by a U.N. agency to have misused the domain name thejaylenoshow.com to direct Internet users to a real estate website. In a ruling issued on Thursday, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said Leno had common law trademark rights to his name after a 30-year career in entertainment, even though Guadalupe Zambrano registered the site in 2004. Furthermore, real estate agent Zambrano did not have any legitimate rights to ...
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