“EMI’s music will be available free to registered Qtrax users for unlimited streaming or downloading to a PC,” the companies said in a statement. “(Users) can also load downloaded tracks on up to three portable devices and play them while their membership remains active.”
What’s right about the service is that it’s free. What’s wrong [...]
The move illustrates one of the aspects of online advertising: detailed analytics let advertisers much more precisely determine the success or failure of advertising as measured by clicks on ads, views to Web sites, and conversions of advertisements into actions such as registering for a site or buying a product.
Advertisers pay Google for ads next [...]
The House That Twitters Its Energy Use ? Earth2Tech - Where a house twitters what its meter reads. A great use of Twitter.
A sampling of
green tech news, from California to Malyasia.
Technology Review: A Price Drop for Solar Panels - Check in on the solar price/silicon shortage balance: Travis Bradford of the Prometheus Institute predicts [...]
So, we’ve got Nintendo saying it “defined industry momentum” and Microsoft arguing that gamers cast the “ultimate vote” for it.
For example, in an e-mail from Nintendo, I learned that, according to NPD, “In March, Nintendo again defined industry momentum in both home and portable video game sales.”
At the same time, Microsoft weighed in with its [...]
Earlier this month, the company announced plans to expand the number of devices that would be able to access Microsoft corporate e-mail–a move that appeared to be aimed squarely at rival smartphone maker Research In Motion. And on Sunday, the JQuery project said that Nokia is adopting the JQuery JavaScript library as part of its [...]
Is this the BlackBerry Kickstart?
Hey now! There’s an interesting story coming out the Boy Genius Report (BGR) that’s creating a lot of buzz among the cell phone community. According to BGR, Research in Motion will release a BlackBerry, codenamed “Kickstart,” with a flip design and has some hands-on photos of the smartphone as well as [...]
The new iPhone 2.1 firmware will apparently improve the iPhone 3G's GPS performance.
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CNET Networks)
As of this moment, it doesn’t appear that anyone has uncovered any networking-related fix in the new firmware, but it hasn’t been live for very long. If anything pops up, we’ll let you know.
If that’s the case, it would [...]
The witty banter was amusing. But want to know the funniest part? Birch’s site was sold to AOL for a monstrous $850 million and the interview didn’t even touch upon it until audience members (including yours truly) brought it up.
As the event was winding down and the Craigslist exec had only a few questions left, [...]
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Screen capture by Martin LaMonica/CNET)
The administration determined that bankruptcy is one possible way to restructure GM quickly, although Obama said he opposes a drawn-out legal proceeding or dismantling the company. “What I am talking about is using our existing legal structure as a tool that, with the backing of the U.S. government, can make [...]
See also: Find stuff faster on Craigslist–if you dare
Another service that does this is Crazedlist, which keeps you inside the confines of Craigslist’s search engine, and shows all of the results from all of the various cities in the same window. However the “hack” Crazedlist uses requires toggling a certain setting on your browser, which [...]
