Apple has threatened to close down its iTunes Store should regulators approve a royalty hike that would grant artists a 66 percent increase in commission for each song sold through online download services.
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Archive for September, 2008
Two brothers who ran a plethora of scam sites have been outed online, resulting in the disappearance of the sites they used to run. It’s funny what the posting of a few pictures and addresses can do.
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Microsoft and Washington State are teaming up again, this time with an eye on software providers who market unnecessary repair/maintenance products. Such programs, known colloquially as “scareware,” cost users significant amounts of money, and provide unnecessary “protection.”
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Microsoft joins law enforcement to sue “scareware” merchants who frighten people into buying unnecessary software for fake security fixes.
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Venezuela is buying one million Intel Classmate laptops from Portugal for its school children.
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For five years, Apple’s iTunes Music Store has been the Internet’s most successful music store. But as music publishers have sought a higher share of its proceeds, Apple has threatened to shutter iTunes.
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The signs of a midlife crisis are there: A 50th birthday approaching; a longing for the glory days of youth; a hankering to dump the aging partner of 27 years; and a costly flirtation with a new young thing.
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SPACE.com Image of the Day
Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang makes history as his country’s first spacewalker.
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Music legend Quincy Jones, center, wa presented with a montage by astronaut Leland Melvin, right, as hip-hop artist/producer Pharrell Williams looks on…
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Music legend Quincy Jones, center, wa presented with a montage by astronaut Leland Melvin, right, as hip-hop artist/producer Pharrell Williams looks on…
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