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Wii Top Seller For January
Research firm the NPD Group has released its U.S. retail sales figures for January 2008. Software sales for the month were up…
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New Media Ad Spending May Hit $12.6B In 2012
If a Parks Associates report is right, the next handful of years should be a great time for everyone in the "new multimedia platforms" advertising business; the report's findings state that, in 2012, over $12.6 billion will be spent on these platforms.
EU Wants To Extend Copyrights For Musicians
The European Union's internal market commissioner Charlie McCreevy has proposed extending the copyright protection for music performers from 50 years to 95 years. "It is the performer who gives life to the composition and while most of us have no idea who wrote our favorite song - we can usually name the performer, " McCreevy said. If the copyright protection is not extended thousands of…
Chinese Freedom Fighter Slams Google
You have to love sometimes the rhetoric of freedom fighters. The US had Patrick Henry and Nathan Hale. More recently, China has university professor Guo Quan, who, after being deleted from Google's index at the behest of the government, called Google "a servile Pekinese dog wagging its tail at the heels of the Chinese communists."Ooh. I love it when people get all revolutionary.
Spitzer, Amazon.com At Odds Over Sales Tax
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer wants all online retailers to collect tax on New York sales, even if the retailer is not based in the state.
1% Of Google Search Results Still Contain Malicious Content
Last Tuesday, Google published a report stating that web browsing and searching are increasingly becoming risky. Google for a year and a half now has been identifying web pages that infect vulnerable hosts via drive-by downloads, i.e. web pages that attempt to exploit their visitors by installing and running malware automatically.
