Napster Is Best Buy For Best Buy

Big Expectations For MySpace Music

From the sounds of it (no pun intended), MySpace Music should be beneficial for all parties involved - MySpace, record labels, artists, Users, advertisers and music e-Tailers. The service, which is due out any day now (sometime this month), will supposedly offer the entire catalogs of Universal, SonyBMG, and Warner Music (77% of all U.S. album sales come from these three according to Nielsen SoundScan…

Public Searches For Gas Relief

It’s usually fun to see what’s on everybody’s mind by looking at Google Trends. Today, no so much, because gas is on their minds, and hurricanes, and not necessarily in that order, depending on where you live. In Texas, or near Texas, or if people have loved ones in Texas, they’re searching for news of Hurricane Ike, which is destined for landfall in Galveston. The…

Japan Is Future Internet Ready

It’s time for our periodic We-Suck-At-Internet rant, which entails comparing and despairing (thanks, Stewart Smalley) over how slow the Internet is in the US. Once again, Japan has us beat and is ready for next-generation applications like high-quality video streaming. But Slovenia? Lithuania? Latvia? They’re faster than us, too?

Politico.com Talks About Its New Ad Network

Popular political Web site Politico.com has partnered with Adify to launch an ad network and Webproworld spoke to Roy Schwartz, VP of business development at Politico about the new ad network.

Google Caters to Lazy Texters

Google has added the "My Location" feature to its mobile search, which previously had only been available on Google Maps for Mobile. My Location recognizes your location (go figure) and gives you relevant search results based on where you are. Instead of having to enter your geographical information, you can just automatically receive geographically relevant results. This will be a lot easier than texting out…