UPDATED: The entire Sony BMG catalog will be available on Amazon MP3 beginning later this month. Sony BMG is the last major label to drop DRM
Starbucks Gives Away Tracks For iTunes WiFi Launch
Starbucks is going to give away 50 million tracks as it helps launch the new iTunes wireless service with Apple. From Oct. 2 to Nov. 7 customers in all 10,000 U.S.
Google Tracks Hydrogen Peroxide Terrorists?
This isn’t breaking news in the business or financial sense, but it is, as far as anybody seems to know, new. So here we go: British police have put a sponsored link in Google’s search results, and that ad connects hydrogen peroxide and the anti-terrorist hotline. Confused? So are the rest of us.
UFOCrawler Tracks Strangeness With IBM Omnifind
Olav Phillips at Anomalies.net has put the freely available IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition to work at UFOCrawler.com, where people can plumb the Internet for information on the unexplained.
Laying Tracks For Shopping Feed Standards
Submitting product data to comparison shopping sites and search engines can be a taxing process. Each engine has its own feed format and special requirements that create extra work and lower ROIs for retailers while reducing revenue and efficiency for the engines (especially the smaller ones). Understandably, then, a movement has begun to standardize the process.
Microsoft Certification: The New MCTS Tracks And Exams
Microsoft is revamping its certification tracks, and will eventually retire the familiar MCSE certificatons.
NORAD Tracks Movement Near North Pole
With Christmas Eve just hours away, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, better known as NORAD, continues preparations for tracking that jolliest of elves, Santa Claus. A test conducted on November 27th tracked Mr. Kringle from the North Pole to Hollywood, California for the annual Hollywood Christmas Parade.
Cisco CCNA Exam Tracks
With the latest version of the CCNA exam, Cisco offers two possible exam track options of either one or two exams.
Tool Tracks Google Ranking Changes
RankPulse tracks and publishes the daily changes in 1,000 different keywords at Google. They focus on high competition keywords like “cars” and “free domain name” and present their findings in graph format on their site.
Stop Your Readers In Their Tracks!
Studies have shown that while 75% of the people read headlines, only 25 % keep reading “the rest of the story”. Breaking it down even further, you have about 4 seconds to convince that reader to read on!